The Role Of Transitions In The Rwanda Genocide

The three modalities of transitions were at play changing over time: regime (Habyarimana government); compromise (coalition government, Arusha treaty); revolution (trough war). In April 1992, when the democratic opposition and the incumbents were relatively matched, as predicted by the “transition paradigm”, reached the compromise and initiated the transition together through a power-sharing regime. The dissonance between these currents became manifest in the mixed in violent behavior aspect of the political transition. Genocide marked an example of “failed transitions” in the paradigmatic sense or rather, “the end of transition paradigm” (Carothers,2002). Therefore the genocide proclaimed the exceptionalism of the Rwanda transition, questioning