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GOV321: The Rwanda Genocide
in Comparative Perspective
Spring 2008 - C. Newbury
reference contact: Sika Berger x2963

Background | Books | Articles | Internet | Citing Sources | Moodle

BACKGROUND/REFERENCE SOURCES

Source Access
The Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (3 volumes) Ref HV 6322.7 .E532 2005
The Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 volumes) Ref HV 6322.7 .E53 1999
Africa South of the Sahara (Europa, latest annual online) 2006 in Ref., earlier years in O'Size (A core) Europa Online
Ref DT 351 .A37 2006
Rwanda Page
UPenn African Studies Center
The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World Ref JA 61 .O95 2001
The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide:
An Annotated Bibliography
Ref HV 6322.7 T68 2007
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women’s Issues Worldwide. Sub-Saharan Africa Ref HQ 1788 .G74 2003
Genocide: A Critical Bibliographical Review (2 vols.)
Vol.1, p.232-40: The literature, art, and film of genocide.
Ref HV 6542  .G45 1988    
Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (3 vols.)
(see “Human Rights” in vol. 2)
Ref PN 1995.9 .D6  E53 2006
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide (2007, on order)
also online (free access)
www.idrc.ca/openebooks/338-0/
The Media in Africa & Africa in the Media: An Annotated Bibliography Ref P 92 A4 W35 1996

REPORTS/ONLINE INFORMATION

Source Access
Réseau Documentaire International sur la Région des Grands Lacs Africains: International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region http://www.grandslacs.net
The Great Genocide Debate (Africa Direct, London) July 27, 1997
Frontline (PBS): The Triumph of Evil, and
Valentina's Nightmare

January 1999
April 1997
International Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the Surrounding Events: Executive Report Summary 1999-2000
2000 Summary
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
by Alison Des Forges; Human Rights Watch

Online version, March 1999
Also on Reserve
DT 450.435 .D45 1999

Preventing Genocide: How the Early Use of Force Might Have Succeeded in Rwanda by Scott R. Feil;
A Report to the Carnegie Commission On Preventing Deadly Conflict
April 1998
Rwanda: Accountability for War Crimes and Genocide
A Report on a U.S. Institute of Peace Conference
January 1995

BOOKS: The Five College Library Catalog & WorldCat

Use keyword searching to search a phrase or combine terms (and, or), or search with Subject Heading begins with... using terms such as these:

Rwanda - History - Civil War, 1994
Rwanda - Ethnic relations
Rwanda - Politics and government
Genocide - Rwanda
Atrocities - Rwanda
Hutu (African people) - Rwanda
Tutsi (African people) - Rwanda
Human rights - Rwanda
Humanitarian assistance
War victims
Women in war - Africa, Sub-Saharan
United States - Foreign relations - Rwanda
(or - Somalia )
Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993
Somalia – Politics and government
United States – Military policy
United States - Foreign relations - Somalia
Military assistance, American - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Intervention (international law)
Humanitarian intervention – Sudan
Genocide – Sudan
Political stability - Africa
War crimes - Law and legislation
International Tribunal for Rwanda
Arusha Peace Agreement (1993)
War crime trials - Rwanda
Trials (Crimes against humanity) - Rwanda
Africa in mass media - United States
Mass media and international relations
Television broadcasting of news
Mayas - Crimes against -Guatemala
Genocide - Guatemala
Political violence - Guatemala
Women - Crimes against
Women and war
Women in politics - Guatemala
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism

Note: UMass Amherst library holdings include records for U.S. government documents from 1976 to the present. Often older hearings can be found at Smith at the same SuDoc (us doc) call numbers, although they don't appear in our own catalog before 1997.

WorldCat
Identify books or reports which you may request through Interlibrary Loan.
Be sure to click on the "Exit" button to end your search session in WorldCat.

ARTICLES & MORE

Use the Journal Locator / Find Journals to see if a periodical is available in full text online. Links are also provided for the online catalog and Interlibrary Loan.
Source Access
Social Sciences Abstracts. 1983+

"core" academic journals

Historical Abstracts. 1954+ &
America: History & Life. 1953+
(these feature limits by time period studied, covering modern periods of history to present)
abstracts, with links to JSTOR, etc.
A:H & L covers US & Canada
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. [IBSS] 1951+ academic journals, international coverage
International Political Science Abstracts. [IPSA] 1975+ political science journals
Women's Studies International. 1975+ indexes women's studies journals
Expanded Academic Index. 1980+ includes some academic, some news
LexisNexis Academic. 1970's+ text from news and legal sources
World News Connection foreign news/English language translation
Libraries' "News" page links to news sites
Communication & Mass Media Complete communication and media studies
CountryWatch.
(with complete content through Smith's link)
http://www.countrywatch.com
LexisNexis Congressional. 1789+ U.S. Congressional documents, testimony, bills, laws, news
Vanderbilt Television News Archive. 1970's+
(free registration required; search U.S. news)
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu

INTERNET LINKS

Site Access
AllAfrica.com
AllAfrica: Rwanda
http://allafrica.com
http://allafrica.com/rwanda
Africa Action http://www.africaaction.org
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania) http://www.ictr.org
Government of Rwanda
(official site)
http://www.gov.rw/
BBC World Service :
Africa section / Great Lakes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/greatlakes/
The US and the Genocide in Rwanda (National Security Archives) http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
ReliefWeb: Great Lakes & IRIN Rwanda archive (from 1999--)
(search Rwanda and <subject>)
http://www.reliefweb.int/
Advanced Search page
http://www.irinnews.org/
Prevent Genocide International:
Monthly news monitor, 2001 --
http://www.preventgenocide.org/prevent/

CONNECT TO GOV321 SITE

Use Moodle to access course documents and communication tools: GOV321

CITATION STYLE

There are some guides to creating citations to electronic sources right on the Web.

Citing Sources (Duke University Library) Guides for Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, and APA. Includes examples of types of works cited, plus information on when to cite and avoiding plagiarism.

Up-to-date style guides and more help are available at the Reference Desk in Neilson library, or try Smith's new online software - RefWorks.

HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN

Use Need Help? Ask a Librarian! to send a question at any time, call Reference at x2960, or contact Sika Berger, reference librarian, directly at x2963: sberger@email.smith.edu

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