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Finance and Operations Director - Fahamu

Fahamu is seeking an experienced Finance and Operations Director to manage the organisation's finance and operations team.
This role will be based in Nairobi, Kenya but will have a remit covering the whole of Fahamu's pan-African programmes with offices in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and UK.
The deadline for applications is February 10, 2012.

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Books & arts

Books written about the genocide

2004-04-01, Issue 150

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/books/21176

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1. African Rights. (1995). Rwanda: Death, Despair, and Defiance. Revised edition. London.
- (2003) Tribute to Courage.

2. Barnett, Michael. (2003) Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda. Cornell University Press.

3. Bill Berkeley. (2001). The Graves are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa. New York: Basic Books.

4. Dallaire, Romeo. (2003). Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Toronto: Random House.

5. De Mucyo, Jean. (2001) “Gacaca Courts and Genocide.” In Rwanda and South Africa in Dialogue: Addressing the Legacies of Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity, edited by Charles Villa-Vicencio and Tyrone Savage. Cape Town: IJR.

6. Des Forges, Alison L. (1999). Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda. New York: Human Rights Watch and Paris: Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme.

7. De Saint-Exupery, Patrick. (2004). "L'Inavouable, la France au Rwanda" (Unspeakable: France in Rwanda).

8. Drumtra, Jeff. “Life after Death: Suspicion and Reintegration in Post-Genocide Rwanda.” Available at http://129.41.41.28/world/articles/rwanda_wrs98.htm

9. Eltringham, Nigel. (2004). Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda. Pluto Press (UK).

10. Gourevitch, Philip. (1998). We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux.

11. Keane, Fergal. (1997). Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey. Penguin Books.

12. Khan, Shaharyar, M. (2001). The Shallow Graves of Rwanda. I. B. Tauris & Company.

13. Kuperman, Alan, J. (2001). The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0815700857-0 Brookings Institution Press.

14. Longman, Timothy. (2004). “Placing Genocide in Context: Research Priorities for the Rwandan Genocide,” Journal of Genocide Studies.

15. Lungu, Theresa. (2003). Twilight in the Morning. iUniverse, Inc.

16. Mamdani, Mahmood (2001) When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- (1996). Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Hate Colonialism. Princton: Princton University Press.

17. Melvern, Linda. (2000). A People Betrayed: The role of the West in Rwanda's genocide, London and New York, Zed Books.
- (2004) Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwanda Genocide and the International Community. Verso Books.

18. Neuffer, Elizabeth. (2002). The Key to My Neighbour's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda. Picador USA.

19. Polman, Linda. (2004). We did Nothing. Penguin Books.

20. Power, Samantha. "A Problem from Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Basic Books.

21. Prunier, Gerard. (1995). The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide. New York: Columbia University Press.

22. Reyntjens, Flip. (1995). “Rwanda: Background to a Genocide.” Bulletin des Seances de l'Academie Royale d'Outre-Mer 41: 281-92.

23. Sarkin, Jeremy. (1999). “The Necessity and Challenges of Establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda.” Human Rights Quarterly 21: 667-823.

- (2000). “Promoting Justice, Truth and Reconciliation in Transitional Societies: Evaluating Rwanda's Approach in the New Millennium of Using Community Based Gacaca Tribunals to Deal with the Past.” International Law Forum 2: 112-21.
- (2001). “Gacaca Courts and Genocide.” In Rwanda and South Africa Dialogue: Addressing the Legacies of Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity, edited by Charles Villa-Viccencio and Tyrone Savage. Cape Town: IJR.

24. Uvin, Peter. (1998). Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda. West Hartford: Kumarian Press.
- (1996). Violence, Aid and Conflict: Reflections from the Case of Rwanda. Helsinki: United Nations University and World Institute of Development Economics Research.

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