By focusing on political violence and political identity in an era in which violence has often been considered a progressive force—a midwife of progress—how then do we understand the violence that does not fit this paradigm, the Rwandan Genocide, an event that brings to mind the Holocaust in Germany or the violence of partition in South Asia?

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