Reconciliation Sentiment Among Victims of Genocide in Rwanda: Conceptualizations, and Relationships with Mental Health

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-39

  Mukashema, Immaculee ^a   Mullet, Etienne ^b  

^a National University of Butare   (Rwanda)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Mental health; Reconciliation sentiment; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GENOCIDE; HEALTH IMPACT; MENTAL HEALTH;

RWANDA;

EID: 77956272316     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9563-1     Document Type: Article

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