Extreme violence. Investigating, Saving, Judging Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Syria

Over the last few years, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Syria have been places where situations of extreme violence took place. As witnesses and investigators of such, the authors of this book shed light on three key-moments that marked these tragic episodes:  the investigation, the intervention of emergency relief teams and the implementation of justice procedures leading to judgement.
 
All were investigators of some sort, in different ways. Social sciences researchers shed light on such topic through investigations, in-depth analysis and publications, often taking part in controversies, especially on the Rwanda situation: what were and still are today the possible ways of investigating on the Tutsi genocide?
 
Humanitarian workers describe their everyday work of emergency saving operations near extreme violence scenes, but they also tell us about the creation of support networks among individuals thus, becoming the spokesperson of those who live among the shambles. The book also gives a platform to a journalist whose investigations in the Kivu (Eastern DRC) question the treatment by the media of this specific place but also the indispensable alliances journalists must make to get access to these war zones.
 
These multiple perspectives rely on diverse sources. Judiciary sources allow us to restitute the behavior of extreme violence’s perpetrators by giving access to their discourse and offer a quantitative point of view regarding the legal proceedings established against them.
 
This book is the result of a long and tedious field work, which brings light and necessary interrogations to think the spaces and individuals linked to extreme violence practices.  
 
The book gathers the contributions of Justine Brabant, Abdulkarim Ekzayez, André Guichaoua, Bert Ingelaere, Myfanwy James, Hakim Khaldi, Marc Le Pape, Timothy Longman, Nicolas Mariot, Sophie Roborgh, Ammar Sabouni, Scott Straus, Claudine Vidal.

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Investigating

•    Twenty Years after Leave None to Tell the Story, What Do We Now Know about the Genocide of the Tutsi In Rwanda?, by Timothy Longman
•    Writing the History of violence during the 1990s in Rwanda, by Scott Straus
•    Micropolitics of neighbors genocide in Rwanda, by Claudine Vidal
•    The all and the part. About the scholarly reading of the Tutsi genocide, by Nicolas Mariot 

Saving

•    Humanitarian Field Practices in the Context of the Syrian Conflict from 2011 to 2018, by Hakim Khaldi 
•    Targeting Healthcare in Syria, by Abdulkarim Ezkayez and Ammar Sabouni 
•    Missing the (Data) Point? Analysis, Advocacy and Accountability in the Monitoring of Attacks on Healthcare in Syria, by Sophie Roborgh 
•    Producing Journalistic Discourse on War, by Justine Brabant 
•    ‘Who Can Sing the Song of MSF?’, by Myfanwy James

Judging 

•    The judiciary politics of Rwanda at the end of the Rwanda Vision 2020 Program, by André Guichaoua 
•    A warlord’s career: Bosco Ntaganda, by Marc Le Pape 
•    Assembling Styles of Truth in Rwanda’s Gacaca Process, by Bert Ingelaere

Two of the book's authors, Marc Le Pape and Claudine Vidal, did a video interview (in French) with the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'homme to introduce the book's key elements.