CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE AND SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE
Rwanda under the RPF:
Assessing Twenty Years of Post-Conflict Governance
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
4 October 2013
In the nearly two decades since the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has experienced substantial political, social and economic change, due mainly to the ambitious policies of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Analyses of RPF rule, especially since Paul Kagame became President in 2000, vary greatly, with some scholars characterising it as a visionary form of post-conflict governance and development and others as a destructive brand of national social engineering and the steady entrenchment of authoritarianism. While some commentators describe this period as one of major political reform and innovation, others emphasise continuities between the RPF and previous Rwandan regimes, especially in terms of the centralisation of power.
This conference and the subsequent special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies (JEAS) will bring together a broad spectrum of commentators to debate the nature of Rwandan politics under the RPF and its impact on the post-genocide reconstruction process, regional relations and the wellbeing of everyday Rwandans. Rather than simply commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the genocide, the conference and special issue will analyse the nature and effects of the RPF’s particular brand of governance, including in shaping Rwanda’s future political, social and economic trajectories.
The conference will be hosted by the JEAS, and the Centre for African Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS. The conference organisers and editors of the special issue are Jason Mosley, research associate at the African Studies Centre, Oxford (and managing editor, JEAS), and Phil Clark, lecturer in comparative and international politics, SOAS.
Interested speakers are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a CV to Jason Mosley (jason.mosley AT africa.ox.ac.uk) by 31 July 2013. Selected presenters will be notified by early August. Following the conference, those presenters will be expected to submit a draft article of maximum 8,000 words by 18 October 2013 for consideration for the special issue, which will be published in the first half of 2014. Joint conference presentations and joint articles would be extremely welcome. (Scholars interested to contribute to the special issue but unable to participate in the conference, please contact Jason Mosley.)
The following topics would be of particular interest but are by no means exhaustive:
- Situating the RPF within the broader history of Rwandan politics.
- Understanding the RPF within the regional context of post-liberation movement ruling parties, and the role of the military in Rwanda’s political economy.
- The impact of exile and civil war in the formation and policies of the RPF.
- Evaluating the effects of the RPF on electoral democracy in Rwanda.
- Competing dimensions of centralisation and decentralisation under RPF rule.
- The impact of Kagame’s leadership.
- Analysing the internal structures and policymaking processes of the RPF.
- Assessing the RPF’s economic development agenda.
- The politics and impacts of land reform in Rwanda.
- The politics of post-genocide memory and accountability in Rwanda.
- The intersections of business, security and politics under the RPF.
- The RPF’s external relations (with the Rwandan diaspora, neighbouring states, the United Nations, the African Union and international donors).
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The organisers have some small funding which will be used to facilitate the participation of speakers and authors from the global South. Other speakers are kindly requested to cover their own travel and accommodation.
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