The GenoDynamics project objectives are delineated in the following National Science Foundation proposal, Mass Killing and the Oases of Humanity: Understanding Rwandan Genocide and Resistance (click to view parts of proposal)

 

Within GenoDynamics we are interested in the following 4 questions:

1. What specifically took place during the genocide and how does this vary across the 100 days and across the country? how does this diffuse over space and time?

Answer (watch film)

2. What explanatory factors are associated with the varying rates of participation, violence, and saving of other individuals (the Schindler-syndrome)?

  • 3. Who participated in the genocide and how does this vary across the 100 days and across the country?

  • 4. How does information about these activities vary across sources?

 

Though GenoDynamics has answered many questions on the Rwandan genocide, many puzzles remain:

  • Military, modernization or mobilization: towards an understanding of relative importance;
  • Sources, sources, everywhere: a continuing exercise in triangulation;
  • Comprehending "Hutuness" and "Tutsiness": What do they mean and how do you know one when you see them?

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