Rwanda's Exit Pathway from Violence : A Strategic Assessment

Shahabudin McDoom, Omar

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ABUSE;    ACCOUNTABILITY;    AMBASSADOR;    ARMED FORCES;    ASYLUM;   

RP-ID  :  62054

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This report aims to assess the stepstaken during Rwanda's transition following the genocideagainst the objective of the long-term durability ofdomestic peace. Its principal conclusion is that peace ismost likely to endure if Rwanda's political space isgradually opened up to allow: (i) Rwanda's formal stateinstitutions to establish greater autonomy from the currentregime; and (ii) Rwandan political and civil society, itspolitical opposition and media in particular, to evolve asmature and independent counterweights to the ruling party.Incremental political liberalization will encourage animportant shift in Rwanda's political culture to onewhich encouraged accountability for the subordination ofinstitutional rules to personal, party, or ethnic interests.It falls on the regime to show the way forward toRwanda's civil and political society by demonstratingits tolerance for genuine political pluralism, dissent, andinclusion. It is in the regime's long-term strategicself-interest to encourage such a change in politicalculture and increase its legitimacy in order to discourageattempts to bring about regime change extra-constitutionally.