Articles by Claude Shema Rutagengwa
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PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS
Claude Shema Rutagengwa, M.D.,
23 Feb 2010
Western vs. Local Approaches On the field mission There have been critics over the western psychosocial interventions in the conflict areas. Most of experts intervening to the fields are westerns, working in different countries all over the world: Africa, Asia, and Southern America mainly. They face a big challenge related to the culture and customs, […]
→ read full articleCRITICAL FACTORS & EMERGENCY OF THE 1994 GENOCIDE IN RWANDA
Dr. Claude Shema Rutagengwa,
31 Jan 2010
In 1994, Rwanda experienced the unspeakable cruel genocide, and between 800,000-1 million of innocent people perished. But the genocide was avoidable, preventable. The new government that halted the genocide did a lot to rebuild the country and reconstruct the destroyed society, but how far is it to preventing similar unspeakable human rights violations? Does anybody […]
→ read full articleETHNO-POLITICAL CONFLICT IN THE EX-BELGIAN COLONY
Claude Shema Rutagengwa, MD,
10 Sep 2009
Overview An ethnic conflict or ethnic war is a war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism. They are of interest because of the apparent prevalence since the Cold War and because they frequently result in war crimes such as genocide. Academic explanations of ethnic conflict generally fall into one of three […]
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