Perspective Chapter: Violence and Politics in the Great Lakes Region – Rwanda’s Integration into Global Capitalism
<p>This present research aims to problematize the different ways in which violence was (and still is) used as a political and economic tool by the Rwandan state, mainly in relation to its insertion into global capitalism in the contemporary world. To this end, it starts with an analysis of the twent...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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IntechOpen
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/1248637 |
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| Sumario: | <p>This present research aims to problematize the different ways in which violence was (and still is) used as a political and economic tool by the Rwandan state, mainly in relation to its insertion into global capitalism in the contemporary world. To this end, it starts with an analysis of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, encompassing different temporalities of Rwandan history, such as Belgian colonization (1922–1962), the independent period of the First Republic (1962-1973) under Gregoire Kayibanda and the Second Republic (1973-1994) under General Juvenal Habyarimana, and the post-genocide government of General Paul Kagame in 1994. Based on the proposed analysis, elements such as authoritarianism and the concentration of power are central in Rwandan politics and involve the development of coffee production during colonization, which continued during independence period, with policies involving mandatory cultivation, commercial monopolies, and severe punishments for workers who violated the strict rules established to optimize production In any case, in recent decades following the rise of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Rwanda has shifted from being a coffee exporter to an exporter of valuable minerals, such as coltan, mainly sourced from conflict zones in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, primarily the Kivu region. In this way, this chapter seek to demonstrate how a history that, at first glance, seems to be full of upheavals, ends up possessing a series of continuities that span different temporalities, so that its authoritarian policies and economic proposals insert this small country in the African Great Lakes region into global capitalism.</p> |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-80631-706-6 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.1015446 |