Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Rwandan State's Fight Against Genocide Ideology

研究生Mark Geraghty将在Jean Comaroff教授的指导下，对种族灭绝后背景下的国家建设工作进行研究。Geraghty将在卢旺达进行他的研究，那里的政府将其运动定义为反对种族灭绝意识形态的斗争，这种意识形态已被正式宣布为种族灭绝的根源。据说，种族灭绝意识形态包括通过行为、言论和文字表现出来的助长种族仇恨的思想。本研究探讨了在二十世纪最致命的一次种族屠杀和种族灭绝之后，暴力活动可能再次爆发的前景。研究人员将通过半结构化访谈、非正式对话互动、观察实践、生活史收集、案例研究汇编以及使用当地档案和媒体资源，收集有关政府运动影响和可能意想不到的后果的数据。他将在官方背景下进行研究，在官方背景下，国家寻求与公民直接接触并互动，以消除种族灭绝意识形态，如加卡卡种族灭绝法庭、加纳再教育营和种族灭绝纪念活动。他还将采访那些没有直接参与政府活动的人，以了解不同阶层的人如何接受和回应政府反对种族灭绝的意识形态。该研究项目将通过解决寻求超越以种族暴力和种族灭绝为标志的过去的政权在多大程度上能够克服对他人的妖魔化和非人性化的逻辑，为冲突后和解情况的学术文献和政策倡议做出贡献。研究结果将为科学理解种族和政治暴力的原因以及旨在防止其返回的法律、政策和计划的影响提供信息。资助这项研究也将有助于培养一名社会科学家。

Graduate student Mark Geraghty, under the direction of Professor Jean Comaroff, will undertake research on nation-building efforts in post-genocide contexts. Geraghty will conduct his research in Rwanda, where the government has framed its campaign as a fight against genocide ideology, which has been officially declared to be the root cause of genocide. Genocide ideology is said to consist of the ideas, revealed through acts, speech and writing, which foster ethnic hatred. This research addresses the prospects of renewed violence in the wake of one of the deadliest bouts of ethnic massacres and genocide of the twentieth century.The researcher will gather data on the effects and possible unintended consequences of the government's campaign through a combination of semi-structured interviews, more informal conversational interactions, observed practices, the collection of life-histories, the compilation of case-studies, and the use of local archival and media sources. He will conduct research in official contexts where the state seeks to directly engage and interact with the citizenry in eradicating genocide ideology, such as gacaca genocide courts, ingando re-education camps, and genocide commemoration events. He also will interview people who are not directly involved in governmental activities, to understand how different sections of the population receive and respond to the government's fight against genocide ideology. This research project will contribute to both academic literatures and policy initiates on situations of post-conflict reconciliation by addressing the extent to which regimes seeking to transcend pasts marked by ethnic violence and genocide can overcome logics of demonization and dehumanization of others. The results of the research will inform scientific understanding of the causes of ethnic and political violence and the impact of laws, policies and programs intended to prevent their return. Funding this research will also contribute to the training of a social scientist.