Scholarship about politics and the body in conflicts has gained prominence in academic
debates. This article advances these conversations by arguing that bodily scars are potent …

This paper does not directly engage the state-formation, political settlement and state-
building debates in Africa but it foregrounds the notion of conversation as the lens through …

The contributions of this special issue explore the concept of colonial durabilities in a bid to
unearth both the concrete and invisible sites through which coloniality continues to circulate …

Much of contemporary Eastern and Southern Africa is governed by former national liberation
movements, each having won power after lengthy and punishing insurgencies. To varying …

This article explores the interactions between the memories of Belgian peacekeepers killed
in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the weight of the colonial past, and the Belgian foreign …

Foreign aid negotiations are characterized by a high degree of asymmetry. In 1995,
immediately following the civil war and genocide, net official development assistance as a …

Heritage, a practice shot through with political forces, is mobilized by states within their
international relationships through methods such as heritage diplomacy. Focusing on the …

This article draws from debates on the transcultural turn in memory studies, exploring the
multiple ways in which memory unfolds in post-war contexts and across cultures. Using …

The 20th century was marked by collective violence throughout the world. Two cases
cumulating within “the Age of Genocide,” the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the 1994 …

Burundian counterpart, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was shot down. 1 The killing of the president
provoked large-scale massacres throughout the country, claiming the lives of approximately …