Burundi
(see also Rwanda)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
Library of Congress Country Profile.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Itano, Nicole. "Burundi peace in Africa hands," Christian Science Monitor (10/23/03):6.
__________. "Burundi's oasis in a desert of ethnic strife," Christian Science Monitor (10/10/03):7.
Larcher, Laurent. "Burundi diary," National Catholic Reporter (2/22/02):9-11.
Mamdani, Mahmood. "From conquest to consent as the basis of state formation," New Left Review 216 (1996):3-36.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Amnesty International. Rwanda & Burundi, The Return Home: Rumours & Realities (NY, 1996).
Lemarchand, René. Burundi: Ethnic Conflict & Genocide (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center, 1996).
__________. Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which Genocide? Whose Genocide? (New Haven: Yale Center for International & Area Studies, 1998).
__________. Exclusion, Marginalization & Political Mobilization: The Road to Hell in the Great Lakes (Copenhagen: U. of Copenhagen Center of African Studies, 2001).
Lévy, Bernard Henri. War, Evil & the End of History (trans. Charlotte Mandell; Hoboken NJ: Melville House, 2004). Chap. 3.
Ndarubagiye, Léonce. Burundi: Origins of the Hutu-Tutsi Conflict (Nairobi, 1996).
Ndarusigiye, Mevin & Marie Mayoya. Burundi: When the Pie is Too Small. Handbook of Ethnic Conflicts & Resource Management (Amman: Al-Ekbal, 2000).
Nyankanzi, Edward L. Genocide: Rwanda & Burundi (Rochester VT: Schenkman, 1998).
Ress, David. The Burundi Ethnic Massacres, 1988 (San Francisco: Mellen Research U., 1991).
Reyntjens, Filip. Burundi: Breaking the Cycle of Violence (London: Minority Rights Group, 1995).
__________. Talking or Fighting? Political Evolution in Rwanda & Burundi, 1998-1999 (Uppsala: Nordiska Africainstitutet, 1999).
__________. Small States in an Unstable Region: Rwanda & Burundi, 1999-2000 (Uppsala: Nordiska Africainstitutet, 2000).
__________. Burundi: Prospects for Peace (London: Minority Rights Group, 2000).
__________. Again at the Crossroads: Rwanda & Burundi, 2000-2001 (Uppsala: Nordiska Africainstitutet, 2001).
Sculier, Carolyn. Everyday Victims: Civilians in the Burundian War (NY: Human Rights Watch, 2003).