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The Role of Demilitarization in Promoting Democracy and Prosperity in Africa

In: Arming the South

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  • Lloyd J. Dumas

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In April 1994, the slaughter began. With guns, with knives, with clubs, the people of Rwanda butchered each other in an ethnic genocide carefully orchestrated by Rwanda’s government, while the rest of the world watched in horror — and did nothing.’ By the time it was over, 500,000 to 1,000,000 people had died and several million more had fled their homes in terror. Squalid conditions in refugee camps took the lives of thousands who sought sanctuary in neighboring Zaire (a nation soon to be violently transformed into the Democratic Republic of Congo). Malnutrition and maltreatment weakened them, and cholera spread like wildfire (Villalón, 1998).

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  • Lloyd J. Dumas, 2002. "The Role of Demilitarization in Promoting Democracy and Prosperity in Africa," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jurgen Brauer & J. Paul Dunne (ed.), Arming the South, chapter 1, pages 15-33, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50125-6_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230501256_2
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    1. Chien-Chiang Lee & Chun-Ping Chang, 2006. "The Long-Run Relationship Between Defence Expenditures And Gdp In Taiwan," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 361-385.
    2. Olumuyiwa Tolulope APANISILE & Olalekan Charles OKUNLOLA, 2014. "An Empirical Analysis Of Effects Of Military Spending On Economic Growth In Nigeria: A Bound Testing Approach To Co-Integration 1989-2013," Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, vol. 6(6), pages 117-130, December.
    3. Ceyhun Elgin & Adem Y. Elveren & Gökçer Özgür & Gül Dertli, 2022. "Military spending and sustainable development," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(3), pages 1466-1490, August.
    4. Innocent.U. Duru & Millicent Adanne Eze & Bartholomew.O.N. Okafor & Abubakar Yusuf & Lawrence.O. Ede & Abubakar Sadiq Saleh, 2021. "Military Outlay and Economic Growth: The Scenarios of Lake Chad Basin Countries of the Republic of Chad and Nigeria," Growth, Asian Online Journal Publishing Group, vol. 8(1), pages 12-26.

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