Rwezaura, Deogratias Mutayoba (2010) The Ethics of Ujamaa: A Contribution to Refugee Policy in Africa's Great Lakes Region. UNSPECIFIED thesis, Santa Clara University.
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Abstract
Since the end of the Cold War era in 1989, the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Africa’s GLR) has experienced political turmoil. In Burundi, since the assassination of its democratically elected President Melchior Ndadaye in October 1993, the country has never fully settled. In Rwanda, the 1994 plane crash that killed the Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and his Burundian counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira, was immediately followed by a genocide of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus; the forces behind the crash are still under investigation. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC, former Zaire), the toppling of President Mobutu Sese Seko by Laurent-Désiré Kabila in 1997 – under the support of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda – and the assassination of Kabila in 2001, plunged the country into one of Africa’s largest intrastate and interstate conflicts. These conflicts have left millions of people dead, millions of others in abject poverty, thousands traumatized and HIV-infected, especially women due to rape, and thousands of others forcibly displaced within their own countries or across borders. Underlying these conflicts are many factors, including ethnicized politics, militarized ethnicity, regionalism, and power struggles in the case of Burundi and Rwanda. In the case of the DRC the underlying causes are regionalism, plunder and mismanagement of natural resources, poor governance, and militarized ethnicity. In short, human rights have been gravely jeopardized in Africa’s GLR. Tanzania, in cooperation with the refugees’ countries of origin, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and other agencies, has been at the forefront in the search for durable solutions to the plight of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa’s GLR. In this dissertation I will demonstrate the contribution of the ethics of ujamaa to the ongoing search for lasting solutions to the plight of forced migrants, both de jure refugees and the internally displaced (IDPs).
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | a survey of the conflicts in africa’s greatlakes region, responding to the crisis of forced migration, the ethics of ujamaa, the contribution of the ethics of ujamaa to forced migration policies in africa’s great lakes region, Julius K. Nyerere, |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2014 07:06 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2023 06:33 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/62 |
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