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René Lemarchand

March 07, 2023

René Lemarchand (born 1932) is a French-American political scientist who is known for his research on ethnic conflict and genocide in Rwanda, Burundi and Darfur. Publishing in both English and French, he is particularly known for his work on the concept of clientelism. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, and continues to write, teach internationally and consult. Since retiring he has worked for USAID (Agency for International Development, Department of State) out of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire as a Regional Consultant for West Africa in Governance and Democracy, and as Democracy and Governance advisor to USAID / Ghana.

René Lemarchand
Born1932
France
NationalityFrench and American
Alma materUCLA
Known forResearch on ethnic conflict and genocide in Rwanda, Burundi and Darfur
AwardsAfrican Studies Association Melville J. Herskovits Award for Rwanda and Burundi, 1971
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
InstitutionsUniversity of Florida

Early life and education

René Lemarchand was born in 1932 in France. After doing undergraduate work in France, he went to the United States for doctoral studies in political science. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), specializing in studies of Central Africa.[1]

Career

Lemarchand joined the political science faculty of the University of Florida in late 1962. He became the first Director of the Center for African Studies at UF and served in that position until 1965. He worked at UF for his entire academic career. He has specialized in political issues in African nations, especially ethnic conflicts leading to warfare, and has published works in both French and English.[2]

In July 1971, while on a two-month research trip to Chad, Lemarchand was arrested and charged with visiting a restricted zone and failing to respond to a summons by the country's president. He was released at the end of August 1971.[3]

Lemarchand received a Fulbright award for June–September 1983 to lecture in political science at the University of Zimbabwe, Salisbury, Zimbabwe. He also received a Fulbright for July 1987–January 1988 for research in political science at the University of Chad, N'djamena, Chad and the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.

Lemarchand has become an expert in ethnic populations and conflicts, such as that in Burundi, the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and Darfur. He is internationally known as an expert on the cycle of violence in Central Africa. He has taught as a visiting professor at universities in Europe, Africa and North America.[2]

Now professor emeritus of political science at the University of Florida, Lemarchand has worked as a consultant in governance for the USAID in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and as governance and democracy adviser to USAID/Ghana.[1]

Works

Books

  • Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo (University of California Press, 1964)
  • '"Rwanda and Burundi"' (Praeger, 1970).
  • Selective Genocide in Burundi (1974)
  • African Kingships in Perspective (1977)
  • African Policy in Southern Africa (1978)
  • Political Clientelism in Patronage and Development (1981)
  • The World Bank in Rwanda (1982)
  • Green and the Black: Qadhafi's Policies in Africa (1988)
  • Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice (1994),
  • Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide (Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  • The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
  • Remembering Genocides in Central Africa. (Routledge, 2021)

Articles

  • 2018. "Rwanda: The state of research" Mass Violence and Resistance online journal.
  • 2007. "Rwanda: The state of research". Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (4 November). pp. 1-25.
  • 2006. "Consociationalism and power sharing in Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo". African Affairs 106, No. 422: pp. 1–20.
  • 2006. "The politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda". Occasional Papers, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Florida: pp. 25–54.
  • 2005-2006. "The geopolitics of the Great Lakes crisis." L'Afrique des Grands Lacs. Annuaire 2005-2006.
  • 2005. "Bearing witness to mass murder." African Studies Review, Vol. 48, No. 3 (December), pp. 93–101.
  • 2004. Myth-Making and the Rationality of Mass Murder: Rwanda, Bosnia and Cambodia in Comparative Perspective, Leeds African Studies Bulletin, 66 (2004), 31-43.
  • 2003. "Comparing the killing fields: Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia." In Jensen, Steven ed., Genocide: Cases, Comparisons, and Contemporary Debates. København; Sweden; The Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
  • 2003. "Where Hamites and Aryans cross paths: the role of myth-making in mass murder", Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 145–48.
  • 2002. "Disconnecting the Threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered", Idea Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, 29 March 2002.
  • 2002. "The fire in the Great Lakes." Peace Research Abstracts 39 (2): pp. 155–306.
  • 2002. "Disconnecting the threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust reconsidered." Journal of Genocide Research 4 (4): pp. 499–518.
  • 2002. "Le génocide de 1972 au Burundi: Les silences de l'histoire", Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, no. 167, XLII-3, pp. 551–567.
  • 2000. "The crisis in the Great Lakes". In Harbeson & Rothchild, Africa in World Politics, Boulder, CO: Westview Press: pp. 324–352.
  • 2000. "Hate crimes." Transition 9, 1/2: pp. 114–132.
  • 1999. "Ethnicity as myth: The view from the Central Africa". Occasional Paper, Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, May 1999.
  • 1999. "Genocide in Comparative Perspective: Rwanda, Cambodia, and Bosnia", unpublished manuscript.
  • 1998. "Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which genocide? Whose genocide?" New Haven, Ct.: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series; pp. 1–13.
  • 1997. "Eyewitness accounts; the Rwandan genocide." In Totten, Parson, and Charny, Century Of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts And Critical Views, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., pp. 408–423.
  • 1997. "Patterns of state collapse and reconstruction in Central Africa: Reflections on the crisis in the Great Lakes Region". Afrika Spectrum, Vol. 32, No. 2: pp. 173–193; also in African Studies Quarterly online at .
  • 1995. "Rwanda: the rationality of genocide". Issue: A Journal of Opinion, 23, No. 2: pp. 8–11.
  • 1994. "Managing transition anarchies: Rwanda, Burundi, and South Africa in comparative perspective". The Journal of Modern African Studies 32 (4): pp. 581–604.
  • 1994. "The apocalypse in Rwanda. Ethnic conflict: the new world order". Cultural Survival Quarterly 18, 2 (Summer): pp. 29–33.
  • 1992. "Africa's troubled transitions". Journal of Democracy 3, No. 4 (October 1992): pp. 98–109.
  • 1992. "Uncivil states and civil societies: How illusion became reality". Journal of Modern African Studies 30, No. 2: pp. 177–191.
  • 1992. "African transitions to democracy: an interim (and mostly pessimistic) assessment". African Insight 22; pp. 178–85.
  • 1992. "Burundi: The Politics of Ethnic Amnesia", in Helen Fein ed., Genocide Watch, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 70–86.
  • 1991. The René Lemarchand Collection at the University of Florida: Box 1: Rwanda Documents, 1930 [bulk 1950 – 1991. 57 Folders.
  • 1990. "Lécole historique burundo-française: Une école pas comme les aures". Canadian Journal of African Studies, 24 2, pp. 235–48.
  • 1983. "The state and society in Africa: Ethnic stratification and restratification in historical and comparative perspective". in Donald Rothchild and Victor A. Olorunsola, eds, State Versus Ethnic Claims: African Policy Dilemmas, Boulder, Colorado (1983): pp. 44–66.
  • 1980-81 "Rwanda: Recent history". In Africa South of the Sahara, 1980-81. London: Europa Publications.
  • 1976. "The C.I.A. in Africa: How Central? How Intelligent?" The Journal of Modern African Studies, Volume 14, Issue 03, Sept, pp. 401–426.
  • 1975. "Ethnic genocide". Excerpts from Selective Genocide in Burundi, Report No. 20, Minority Rights Group, London, 1974. Issue 5, No. 21, Summer: pp. 9–16.
  • 1975. "Rwanda: Recent history". In Africa South of the Sahara, 1974. London: Europa Publications.
  • 1974. "The military in former Belgian Africa". In Kelleher Ed., Political Military Systems: Comparative Perspectives. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
  • 1973. "African Power Through the Looking Glass". The Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 11, No. 2 (June), pp. 305–314.
  • 1972. "Political clientelism and ethnicity in tropical Africa: Competing solidarities in nation-building". The American Political Science Review 66, no. 1 (March): pp. 68–90.
  • 1970. "The coup in Rwanda". in Protest and Power in Black Africa, ed. Rothberg, R. I., and Mazrui, Oxford, p. 891.
  • 1968. "Revolutionary phenomena in stratified societies; Rwanda and Zanzibar". Civilisations 18, No. 1: pp. 16–51.
  • 1968. "Les relations de clientèle comme agent de contestation: le cas du Rwanda". Civilisations 18, No. 4: pp. 553–578.
  • 1967. "The passing of Mwamiship in Burundi". Africa Report (January): pp. 15–24.
  • 1966. "Power and stratification in Rwanda; A reconsideration". Cahiers d'Études africaines 6, No. 24: pp. 592–610. Also available at www.persee.fr.
  • 1966. "Political instability in Africa, the case of Rwanda and Burundi." Civilisations 16 (3): pp. 307–37.
  • 1962. "L'influence des systèmes traditionnels sur l'évolution du Rwanda et du Burundi." Revue de l'Institut de Sociologie de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles: pp. 2–24.

Legacy and honors

  • 1971, Melville J. Herskovits Award for Rwanda and Burundi, African Studies Association[4]
  • The René Lemarchand Collection of African Political Papers at the University of Florida, featuring materials on Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Chad, Gabon, and Libya, mostly in French, with emphasis on the period of the 1950s through independence, and increasing democratization in the 1980s and 1990s.

References

  1. ^ a b "The René Lemarchand Collection at the University of Florida". University of Florida. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
  2. ^ a b . Manhattan College. 2007-02-06. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
  3. ^ "Professor out of Chad jail". St. Petersburg Times. 1971-08-28. Retrieved 2009-04-13.[dead link]
  4. ^ "Melville J. Herskovits Award winners". African Studies Association. Retrieved 2008-05-10.

External links

  • "Lemarchand Collection of African Political Papers", University of Florida

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Rene Lemarchand born 1932 is a French American political scientist who is known for his research on ethnic conflict and genocide in Rwanda Burundi and Darfur Publishing in both English and French he is particularly known for his work on the concept of clientelism He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida and continues to write teach internationally and consult Since retiring he has worked for USAID Agency for International Development Department of State out of Abidjan Cote d Ivoire as a Regional Consultant for West Africa in Governance and Democracy and as Democracy and Governance advisor to USAID Ghana Rene LemarchandBorn1932FranceNationalityFrench and AmericanAlma materUCLAKnown forResearch on ethnic conflict and genocide in Rwanda Burundi and DarfurAwardsAfrican Studies Association Melville J Herskovits Award for Rwanda and Burundi 1971Scientific careerFieldsPolitical scienceInstitutionsUniversity of Florida Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Works 3 1 Books 3 2 Articles 4 Legacy and honors 5 References 6 External linksEarly life and education EditRene Lemarchand was born in 1932 in France After doing undergraduate work in France he went to the United States for doctoral studies in political science He completed his Ph D at the University of California Los Angeles UCLA specializing in studies of Central Africa 1 Career EditLemarchand joined the political science faculty of the University of Florida in late 1962 He became the first Director of the Center for African Studies at UF and served in that position until 1965 He worked at UF for his entire academic career He has specialized in political issues in African nations especially ethnic conflicts leading to warfare and has published works in both French and English 2 In July 1971 while on a two month research trip to Chad Lemarchand was arrested and charged with visiting a restricted zone and failing to respond to a summons by the country s president He was released at the end of August 1971 3 Lemarchand received a Fulbright award for June September 1983 to lecture in political science at the University of Zimbabwe Salisbury Zimbabwe He also received a Fulbright for July 1987 January 1988 for research in political science at the University of Chad N djamena Chad and the University of Lagos Lagos Nigeria Lemarchand has become an expert in ethnic populations and conflicts such as that in Burundi the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and Darfur He is internationally known as an expert on the cycle of violence in Central Africa He has taught as a visiting professor at universities in Europe Africa and North America 2 Now professor emeritus of political science at the University of Florida Lemarchand has worked as a consultant in governance for the USAID in Abidjan Cote d Ivoire and as governance and democracy adviser to USAID Ghana 1 Works EditBooks Edit Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo University of California Press 1964 Rwanda and Burundi Praeger 1970 Selective Genocide in Burundi 1974 African Kingships in Perspective 1977 African Policy in Southern Africa 1978 Political Clientelism in Patronage and Development 1981 The World Bank in Rwanda 1982 Green and the Black Qadhafi s Policies in Africa 1988 Burundi Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice 1994 Burundi Ethnic Conflict and Genocide Woodrow Wilson Center Press Cambridge University Press 1996 The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa University of Pennsylvania Press 2009 Remembering Genocides in Central Africa Routledge 2021 Articles Edit 2018 Rwanda The state of research Mass Violence and Resistance online journal 2007 Rwanda The state of research Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence 4 November pp 1 25 2006 Consociationalism and power sharing in Africa Rwanda Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo African Affairs 106 No 422 pp 1 20 2006 The politics of memory in post genocide Rwanda Occasional Papers Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies University of Florida pp 25 54 2005 2006 The geopolitics of the Great Lakes crisis L Afrique des Grands Lacs Annuaire 2005 2006 2005 Bearing witness to mass murder African Studies Review Vol 48 No 3 December pp 93 101 2004 Myth Making and the Rationality of Mass Murder Rwanda Bosnia and Cambodia in Comparative Perspective Leeds African Studies Bulletin 66 2004 31 43 2003 Comparing the killing fields Rwanda Cambodia and Bosnia In Jensen Steven ed Genocide Cases Comparisons and Contemporary Debates Kobenhavn Sweden The Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2003 Where Hamites and Aryans cross paths the role of myth making in mass murder Journal of Genocide Research vol 5 no 1 pp 145 48 2002 Disconnecting the Threads Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered Idea Journal Vol 7 No 1 29 March 2002 2002 The fire in the Great Lakes Peace Research Abstracts 39 2 pp 155 306 2002 Disconnecting the threads Rwanda and the Holocaust reconsidered Journal of Genocide Research 4 4 pp 499 518 2002 Le genocide de 1972 au Burundi Les silences de l histoire Cahiers d Etudes Africaines no 167 XLII 3 pp 551 567 2000 The crisis in the Great Lakes In Harbeson amp Rothchild Africa in World Politics Boulder CO Westview Press pp 324 352 2000 Hate crimes Transition 9 1 2 pp 114 132 1999 Ethnicity as myth The view from the Central Africa Occasional Paper Centre of African Studies University of Copenhagen May 1999 1999 Genocide in Comparative Perspective Rwanda Cambodia and Bosnia unpublished manuscript 1998 Genocide in the Great Lakes Which genocide Whose genocide New Haven Ct Yale Center for International and Area Studies Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series pp 1 13 1997 Eyewitness accounts the Rwandan genocide In Totten Parson and Charny Century Of Genocide Eyewitness Accounts And Critical Views New York Garland Publishing Inc pp 408 423 1997 Patterns of state collapse and reconstruction in Central Africa Reflections on the crisis in the Great Lakes Region Afrika Spectrum Vol 32 No 2 pp 173 193 also in African Studies Quarterly online at 1 1995 Rwanda the rationality of genocide Issue A Journal of Opinion 23 No 2 pp 8 11 1994 Managing transition anarchies Rwanda Burundi and South Africa in comparative perspective The Journal of Modern African Studies 32 4 pp 581 604 1994 The apocalypse in Rwanda Ethnic conflict the new world order Cultural Survival Quarterly 18 2 Summer pp 29 33 1992 Africa s troubled transitions Journal of Democracy 3 No 4 October 1992 pp 98 109 1992 Uncivil states and civil societies How illusion became reality Journal of Modern African Studies 30 No 2 pp 177 191 1992 African transitions to democracy an interim and mostly pessimistic assessment African Insight 22 pp 178 85 1992 Burundi The Politics of Ethnic Amnesia in Helen Fein ed Genocide Watch New Haven Yale University Press pp 70 86 1991 The Rene Lemarchand Collection at the University of Florida Box 1 Rwanda Documents 1930 bulk 1950 1991 57 Folders 1990 Lecole historique burundo francaise Une ecole pas comme les aures Canadian Journal of African Studies 24 2 pp 235 48 1983 The state and society in Africa Ethnic stratification and restratification in historical and comparative perspective in Donald Rothchild and Victor A Olorunsola eds State Versus Ethnic Claims African Policy Dilemmas Boulder Colorado 1983 pp 44 66 1980 81 Rwanda Recent history In Africa South of the Sahara 1980 81 London Europa Publications 1976 The C I A in Africa How Central How Intelligent The Journal of Modern African Studies Volume 14 Issue 03 Sept pp 401 426 1975 Ethnic genocide Excerpts from Selective Genocide in Burundi Report No 20 Minority Rights Group London 1974 Issue 5 No 21 Summer pp 9 16 1975 Rwanda Recent history In Africa South of the Sahara 1974 London Europa Publications 1974 The military in former Belgian Africa In Kelleher Ed Political Military Systems Comparative Perspectives Beverly Hills Sage Publications 1973 African Power Through the Looking Glass The Journal of Modern African Studies vol 11 No 2 June pp 305 314 1972 Political clientelism and ethnicity in tropical Africa Competing solidarities in nation building The American Political Science Review 66 no 1 March pp 68 90 1970 The coup in Rwanda in Protest and Power in Black Africa ed Rothberg R I and Mazrui Oxford p 891 1968 Revolutionary phenomena in stratified societies Rwanda and Zanzibar Civilisations 18 No 1 pp 16 51 1968 Les relations de clientele comme agent de contestation le cas du Rwanda Civilisations 18 No 4 pp 553 578 1967 The passing of Mwamiship in Burundi Africa Report January pp 15 24 1966 Power and stratification in Rwanda A reconsideration Cahiers d Etudes africaines 6 No 24 pp 592 610 Also available at www persee fr 1966 Political instability in Africa the case of Rwanda and Burundi Civilisations 16 3 pp 307 37 1962 L influence des systemes traditionnels sur l evolution du Rwanda et du Burundi Revue de l Institut de Sociologie de l Universite Libre de Bruxelles pp 2 24 Legacy and honors Edit1971 Melville J Herskovits Award for Rwanda and Burundi African Studies Association 4 The Rene Lemarchand Collection of African Political Papers at the University of Florida featuring materials on Rwanda Burundi Zaire Chad Gabon and Libya mostly in French with emphasis on the period of the 1950s through independence and increasing democratization in the 1980s and 1990s References Edit a b The Rene Lemarchand Collection at the University of Florida University of Florida Retrieved 2011 09 14 a b Dr Rene Lemarchand to lecture about Rwandan Genocide at Manhattan College Manhattan College 2007 02 06 Archived from the original on 2007 10 28 Retrieved 2008 05 10 Professor out of Chad jail St Petersburg Times 1971 08 28 Retrieved 2009 04 13 dead link Melville J Herskovits Award winners African Studies Association Retrieved 2008 05 10 External links Edit Lemarchand Collection of African Political Papers University of Florida Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rene Lemarchand amp oldid 1062344356, wikipedia, 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