Life After Violence: a People's Story of Burundi (African Arguments)
About the author Peter Uvin is the Henry J. Leir Professor of Inter national Humanitarian Studies and Academic Dean at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA. In recent years, his research and practice have dealt with the intersection between development aid, human rights, and conflict, mostly in the African Great Lakes region. His previous books include Develop- ment and Human Rights and Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda, which received the African Studies Association’s Herskowits award for the most outstanding book on Africa in 1998. He spends a large amount of his time working for various agencies in the Great Lakes region. African Arguments African Arguments is a series of short books about Africa today. Aimed at the growing number of students and general readers who want to know more about the continent, these books highlight many of the longer-term strategic as well as immediate political issues confronting the African continent. They get to the heart of why Africa is the way it is and how it is changing. The books are scholarly but engaged, substantive as well as topical. Series editors alex de waal, Social Science Research Council richard dowden, Executive Director, Royal African Society Editorial board emmanuel akyeampong, Harvard University tim allen, London School of Economics and Political Science akwe amosu, Open Society Institute breyten breytenbach, Gorée Institute craig calhoun, Social Science Research Council peter da costa, journalist and development specialist william gumede, journalist and author alcinda honwana, Open University abdul mohammed, InterAfrica Group robert molteno, editor and publisher Titles already published Tim Allen, Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There is No Political Crisis – Yet Raymond W.
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