Resources

Recent News

Burundi Opposition Dissidents Move to Oust Leader, 4 October 2009

Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on Burundi’s Ongoing Transition to Peace and 2010 Elections, August 2009

Historical Narratives

Kidder, Trady. Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness. New York: Random House, 2009.

Krueger, Ambassador Robert and Kathleen Tobin Krueger.  From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years during Genocide. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.

Burundi’s Genocide

Daley, Patricia O. Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region.

Lemarchand, Renee.  Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide.

Uvin, Peter.  Life After Violence: A People’s Story of Burundi. London: Zed Books, 2008.

Weissman, Stephen R.  Preventing Genocide in Burundi: Lessons from International Diplomacy. Peaceworks No. 22.  Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, July 1998.

Burundi History

Chretien, Jean- Pierre.  “Burundi: The Obsession with Genocide.”  Current History 95, no. 601 (May 1996).

The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History. Trans.  Scott  Straus.  New York: Zone Books, 2003.

Other Noteworthy Books on Global Health and Human Rights

Farmer, Paul.  Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

—Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

and Margaret Connors and Janie Simmons, eds.  Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence. Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1996.

Gruskin, Sophia.  Perspectives on Health and Human Rights.

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