Promoting Reconciliation After Genocide and Mass Killing in Rwanda-And Other Postconflict Settings: Understanding the Roots of Violence, Healing, Shared History, and General Principles

The Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Staub, Ervin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Genocide; Hutus; Intergroup conflict; Intergroup relations; Rwanda; Tutsis; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960953300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300314.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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