The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa - Lemarchand, René (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
Biographical note: Rene Lemarchand is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Florida
Main description: This collection of essays explores the contemporary crises in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, offering important new insights into the cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of Central Africa the most violent on the continent