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" Elite perceptions and the adoption of an extremist policy of genocide: A comparative case study of Armenia and Rwanda "
Nicole Powell A. Lyon

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	53881
Doc. No	:	TL23835
Call number	:	‭1437638‬
Main Entry	:	Nicole Powell
Title & Author	:	Elite perceptions and the adoption of an extremist policy of genocide: A comparative case study of Armenia and Rwanda\ Nicole Powell
College	:	University of New Hampshire
Date	:	2006
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2006
Page No	:	63
Abstract	:	The events leading up to the genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994 are similar to the events that led to the genocide that occurred in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Economic and political crises plagued both states, international pressures to democratize weighed on both states, and both states were subject to ethnic polarization. This project examines those common factors preceding the Rwandan and Armenian genocides; and looks at elite's perception of a threat to their power because of the existence of those factors. Furthermore, the paper examines the relationship between the perception of a threat to elite power and the subsequent adoption of a genocidal policy. This comparative, most similar systems case study of the Rwandan and Armenian genocides provides a model that suggests a trajectory for the adoption of a genocidal policy. Recognizing precursory factors that are perceived to threaten elites and lead them to adopt a radical policy of genocide may enable the prevention of the most horrific atrocity still afflicting the twenty-first century.
Subject	:	Social sciences; Political science; 0615:Political science
Added Entry	:	A. Lyon
Added Entry	:	University of New Hampshire