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The impact of genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia on genocide policy and genocide studies

In: Handbook of Genocide Studies

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  • David J. Simon

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Two genocides in the mid-1990s - against the Tutsi in Rwanda and agsint Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica (and, arguably, elsewhere in Bosnia) shattered the notion that the end of the cold war would usher in an era of global peace and stability. Thisd chapter examines those genocides as a means of drawing attention to how these episodes changed the way policy makers and scholars came to think about genocide. After presenting an overview of each case, I address the failure to grasp the genocidal dimensions of violence in Rwanda and Bosnia. I argue that those failures revealed blind spots in what people understood about genocide or the prospect of suppressing it. They also prompted changes in both the policy-making and academic realms that have altered the trajectory of genocide studies since then.

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  • David J. Simon, 2023. "The impact of genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia on genocide policy and genocide studies," Chapters, in: David J. Simon & Leora Kahn (ed.), Handbook of Genocide Studies, chapter 8, pages 106-121, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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