60 years after the UN Convention - Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

Revisiting the heart of darkness
– Explorations into genocide and
other forms of mass violence
60 years after the UN Convention
development dialogue
no. 50 december 2008
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................ 3
Poem by Dennis Brutus ..................................................................................................... 4
Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 7
Henning Melber
The history of mass violence since colonial times
– Trying to understand the roots of a mindset ..................................................................13
Jacques Depelchin
Violence, legitimacy and dynamics of genocide
– Notions of mass violence examined ...............................................................................33
Reinhart Kössler
Contextualising violence in colonial Africa
– European national development, empire and lineages of confl ict ...................................53
Gerold Krozewski
Colonialism and genocide
– Raphael Lemkin’s concept of genocide and its application to European rule in Africa .........75
Dominik Schaller
Colonialism and the holocaust
– Towards an archeology of genocide .............................................................................. 95
Jürgen Zimmerer
Do we need an alternative to the concept of genocide? ...................................................125
Anthony Court
Lineages of racism in genocidal contexts
– Lessons from Hannah Arendt in contemporary African genocide scholarship ............. 155
Ulrike Kistner
Hotel Rwanda – The challenges of historicising and commercialising genocide ...............173
Mohamed Adhikari
The makings and meanings of the massacres in Matabeleland ........................................197
Ian Phimister
Mass violence in Zimbabwe 2005 – Murambatsvina .......................................................217
Mary E. Ndlovu
A luta continua! – South African HIV activism, embodiment and state politics .............239
Elina Oinas and Katarina Jungar