Timothy Longman
Biographic Data
| ID | 90856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Longman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Longman |
| SIGNATURE | LONGMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6852-8106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Weakness of Authoritarian Regimes: Rwanda as a Difficult But Convincing Case
The lack of academic attention to the functioning of authoritarian regimes has allowed an erroneous impression that dictatorships are inherently strong and stable. Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses the difficult case of Rwanda, whose 1994 genocide against the Tutsi has widely been seen as a sign of state strength, to demonstrate the fragility of authoritarian rule. Looking at the First and Second Republics, which governed Rwanda from 1962 until 1994, Des…
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda
Rwanda has been a focus of substantial scholarly attention, but recent regulations there have made conducting research increasingly challenging. Four books from diverse disciplines show that, despite the ways in which the authoritarian context places constraints on what research can be undertaken and how it can be done, solid scholarship on Rwanda can continue to be produced. They also show that the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi remains the foc…
From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide, by Joyce E. Leader
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan, by Christopher Tounsel
South Sudan, often touted as “the world’s newest country,” had a tumultuous first decade of independence. Following its secession from Sudan in 2011, leaders of the two largest ethnic groups, the Dinka and Nuer, launched a civil war that killed over 400,000 people and displaced another 4 million, a quarter of the population. The war devastated the country’s already feeble economy, cementing a place for South Sudan near the bottom of UNDP’s Human …
Twenty Years after Leave None to Tell the Story, What Do We Now Know about the Genocide of the Tutsi In Rwanda
In 1999, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published an extensive account of genocide in Rwanda, Leave None to Tell the Story . Based on interviews and archival work conducted by a team of researchers and written primarily by Alison Des Forges, Leave None to Tell was quickly recognised as the definitive account of the 1994 genocide. In the ensuing two decades, however, much additional research has a…
Brian Stanley. Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History
In Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History, Brian Stanley explores the massive transformations that the Christian faith experienced over the hundred-year period from 1900 to 2000. Progressive Protestant leaders predicted in 1900 that the twentieth century would be “the Christian Century,” and Stanley sets out to explore how true this prediction proved to be. On the one hand, he notes that Christianity grew from five hundred million…
Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Following times of great conflict and tragedy, many countries implement programs and policies of transitional justice, none more extensive than in post-genocide Rwanda. Placing Rwanda's transitional justice initiatives in their historical and political context, this book examines the project undertaken by the post-genocide government to shape the collective memory of the Rwandan population, both through political and judicial reforms but also in …
Book Debate
Jan van Butselaar, who lived and worked in Rwanda for many years, reviews Timothy Longman’s book Christianity and Genocide . He describes his experience of church life in the country between 1975 and 1983, and he contests Longman’s view of the 1994 genocide and what he sees as a blanket condemnation of the role of Christian institutions and leaders in it. Longman responds by unpacking the different understandings of the genocide which he and Buts…
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda
Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then turns to a rich body of original national- and local-level research to argue that Rwanda's churches have consistently allied themselves with the state and played ethnic pol…
An Assessment of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
After taking power in 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front put a government in place. Among its many initiatives, none has gained as much attention as the innovative judicial initiative known as gacac
Teaching History after Identity‐Based Conflicts: The Rwanda Experience
Identity and Institutions: Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies – By Neal G. Jesse and Kristen P. Williams Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? – By James L. Gibson
Identity and Institutions: Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies . By Neal G. Jesse and Kristen P. Williams . Albany : State University of New York Press . 2005 . 194 pp . Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? By James L. Gibson . New York : Russell Sage Foundation . 2004 . 467 pp . Since the end of the Cold War, the problem of identity-based conflict has become a major international concern. How to resolve violent social …
Trauma and PTSD Symptoms in Rwanda: Implications for Attitudes Toward Justice and Reconciliation
CONTEXT: The 1994 genocide in Rwanda led to the loss of at least 10% of the country's 7.7 million inhabitants, the destruction of much of the country's infrastructure, and the displacement of nearly 4 million people. In seeking to rebuild societies such as Rwanda, it is important to understand how traumatic experience may shape the ability of individuals and groups to respond to judicial and other reconciliation initiatives. OBJECTIVES: To assess…
My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity
My Neighbour, My Enemy tackles a crucial and highly topical issue - how do countries rebuild after ethnic cleansing and genocide? And what role do trials and tribunals play in social reconstruction and reconciliation. By talking with people in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and carrying out extensive surveys, the authors explore what people think about their past and the future. Their conclusions controversially suggest that international or lo…
Placing genocide in context: Research priorities for the Rwandan genocide
The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa
1Vassar College and University of California, Berkeley The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa BillBerkeley New YorkBasic Books 2001320$17.00
The Path of Genocide; The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire . Howard Adelman , Astri Suhrke
Church Politics and the Genocide in Rwanda
Christian churches were deeply implicated in the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsi in Rwanda. Churches were a major site for massacres, and many Christians participated in the slaughter, including church personnel and lay leaders. Church involvement in the genocide can be explained in part because of the historic link between church and state and the acceptance of ethnic discrimination among church officials. In addition, just as political officials …
La guerre des grands lacs: Alliances Mouvantes Et Conflits Extraterritoriaux En Afrique Centrale
Empowering the Weak and Protecting the Powerful: The Contradictory Nature of Churches in Central Africa
Depuis le coup d'etat du 21 octobre 1993, le Burundi est consume par un genocide a petit feu, pendant que les dirigeants s'engagent dans une serie de dialogues de sourds. Entre temps, les causes de la crise font l'objet de demi-verites et des solutions impropres sont proposees pour un mal social structurel incorrectement diagnostique. Ce papier examine les causes de la violence ethnique en mettant en exergue l'impact de la faillite des institutio…
My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity
My Neighbour, My Enemy tackles a crucial and highly topical issue - how do countries rebuild after ethnic cleansing and genocide? And what role do trials and tribunals play in social reconstruction and reconciliation. By talking with people in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and carrying out extensive surveys, the authors explore what people think about their past and the future. Their conclusions controversially suggest that international or lo…
Church Politics and the Genocide in Rwanda
Christian churches were deeply implicated in the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsi in Rwanda. Churches were a major site for massacres, and many Christians participated in the slaughter, including church personnel and lay leaders. Church involvement in the genocide can be explained in part because of the historic link between church and state and the acceptance of ethnic discrimination among church officials. In addition, just as political officials …
An Assessment of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
After taking power in 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front put a government in place. Among its many initiatives, none has gained as much attention as the innovative judicial initiative known as gacac
Placing genocide in context: Research priorities for the Rwandan genocide
La guerre des grands lacs: Alliances Mouvantes Et Conflits Extraterritoriaux En Afrique Centrale
Empowering the Weak and Protecting the Powerful: The Contradictory Nature of Churches in Central Africa
Depuis le coup d'etat du 21 octobre 1993, le Burundi est consume par un genocide a petit feu, pendant que les dirigeants s'engagent dans une serie de dialogues de sourds. Entre temps, les causes de la crise font l'objet de demi-verites et des solutions impropres sont proposees pour un mal social structurel incorrectement diagnostique. Ce papier examine les causes de la violence ethnique en mettant en exergue l'impact de la faillite des institutio…
Empowering the Weak and Protecting the Powerful: The Contradictory Nature of Churches in Central Africa
Depuis le coup d'etat du 21 octobre 1993, le Burundi est consume par un genocide a petit feu, pendant que les dirigeants s'engagent dans une serie de dialogues de sourds. Entre temps, les causes de la crise font l'objet de demi-verites et des solutions impropres sont proposees pour un mal social structurel incorrectement diagnostique. Ce papier examine les causes de la violence ethnique en mettant en exergue l'impact de la faillite des institutio…
The Path of Genocide; The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire . Howard Adelman , Astri Suhrke
Church Politics and the Genocide in Rwanda
Christian churches were deeply implicated in the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsi in Rwanda. Churches were a major site for massacres, and many Christians participated in the slaughter, including church personnel and lay leaders. Church involvement in the genocide can be explained in part because of the historic link between church and state and the acceptance of ethnic discrimination among church officials. In addition, just as political officials …
La guerre des grands lacs: Alliances Mouvantes Et Conflits Extraterritoriaux En Afrique Centrale
The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa
1Vassar College and University of California, Berkeley The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa BillBerkeley New YorkBasic Books 2001320$17.00
Trauma and PTSD Symptoms in Rwanda: Implications for Attitudes Toward Justice and Reconciliation
CONTEXT: The 1994 genocide in Rwanda led to the loss of at least 10% of the country's 7.7 million inhabitants, the destruction of much of the country's infrastructure, and the displacement of nearly 4 million people. In seeking to rebuild societies such as Rwanda, it is important to understand how traumatic experience may shape the ability of individuals and groups to respond to judicial and other reconciliation initiatives. OBJECTIVES: To assess…
My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity
My Neighbour, My Enemy tackles a crucial and highly topical issue - how do countries rebuild after ethnic cleansing and genocide? And what role do trials and tribunals play in social reconstruction and reconciliation. By talking with people in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and carrying out extensive surveys, the authors explore what people think about their past and the future. Their conclusions controversially suggest that international or lo…
Placing genocide in context: Research priorities for the Rwandan genocide
Identity and Institutions: Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies – By Neal G. Jesse and Kristen P. Williams Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? – By James L. Gibson
Identity and Institutions: Conflict Reduction in Divided Societies . By Neal G. Jesse and Kristen P. Williams . Albany : State University of New York Press . 2005 . 194 pp . Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? By James L. Gibson . New York : Russell Sage Foundation . 2004 . 467 pp . Since the end of the Cold War, the problem of identity-based conflict has become a major international concern. How to resolve violent social …
Teaching History after Identity‐Based Conflicts: The Rwanda Experience
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda
Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then turns to a rich body of original national- and local-level research to argue that Rwanda's churches have consistently allied themselves with the state and played ethnic pol…
An Assessment of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
After taking power in 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front put a government in place. Among its many initiatives, none has gained as much attention as the innovative judicial initiative known as gacac
Book Debate
Jan van Butselaar, who lived and worked in Rwanda for many years, reviews Timothy Longman’s book Christianity and Genocide . He describes his experience of church life in the country between 1975 and 1983, and he contests Longman’s view of the 1994 genocide and what he sees as a blanket condemnation of the role of Christian institutions and leaders in it. Longman responds by unpacking the different understandings of the genocide which he and Buts…
Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Following times of great conflict and tragedy, many countries implement programs and policies of transitional justice, none more extensive than in post-genocide Rwanda. Placing Rwanda's transitional justice initiatives in their historical and political context, this book examines the project undertaken by the post-genocide government to shape the collective memory of the Rwandan population, both through political and judicial reforms but also in …
Twenty Years after Leave None to Tell the Story, What Do We Now Know about the Genocide of the Tutsi In Rwanda
In 1999, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published an extensive account of genocide in Rwanda, Leave None to Tell the Story . Based on interviews and archival work conducted by a team of researchers and written primarily by Alison Des Forges, Leave None to Tell was quickly recognised as the definitive account of the 1994 genocide. In the ensuing two decades, however, much additional research has a…
Brian Stanley. Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History
In Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History, Brian Stanley explores the massive transformations that the Christian faith experienced over the hundred-year period from 1900 to 2000. Progressive Protestant leaders predicted in 1900 that the twentieth century would be “the Christian Century,” and Stanley sets out to explore how true this prediction proved to be. On the one hand, he notes that Christianity grew from five hundred million…
From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide, by Joyce E. Leader
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan, by Christopher Tounsel
South Sudan, often touted as “the world’s newest country,” had a tumultuous first decade of independence. Following its secession from Sudan in 2011, leaders of the two largest ethnic groups, the Dinka and Nuer, launched a civil war that killed over 400,000 people and displaced another 4 million, a quarter of the population. The war devastated the country’s already feeble economy, cementing a place for South Sudan near the bottom of UNDP’s Human …
Researching under constraints: Recent books on post-genocide Rwanda
Rwanda has been a focus of substantial scholarly attention, but recent regulations there have made conducting research increasingly challenging. Four books from diverse disciplines show that, despite the ways in which the authoritarian context places constraints on what research can be undertaken and how it can be done, solid scholarship on Rwanda can continue to be produced. They also show that the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi remains the foc…
The Weakness of Authoritarian Regimes: Rwanda as a Difficult But Convincing Case
The lack of academic attention to the functioning of authoritarian regimes has allowed an erroneous impression that dictatorships are inherently strong and stable. Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses the difficult case of Rwanda, whose 1994 genocide against the Tutsi has widely been seen as a sign of state strength, to demonstrate the fragility of authoritarian rule. Looking at the First and Second Republics, which governed Rwanda from 1962 until 1994, Des…
Political science (17 works) · Law (12 works) · Genocide (11 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Democracy (5 works)