Letter to supervisor
| dc.contributor.author | Rutazibwa, Privat | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-07T16:00:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-07T16:00:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-12-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this ‘Letter to supervisor’, including a workshop presentation of an overview of his doctoral research project (appendix 1) and a letter to the Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office (appendix 2), the author shows the extent to which some in academia and foreign policy in Germany oppose resistance and hostility to the research findings indicating that it is the racist and genocidal ideology of colonial inspiration and neocolonial instrumentalization which is responsible for most episodes of post-independence violence and instability in the Great Lakes region of Africa, as well as the root cause of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda from 1959 to 1994 and currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All of his doctoral research is carried out using a decolonial and interpretivist approach which allows him to display his positionality, to express judgments and sometimes his indignation, but always with respect and rigor with regard to the best standards of research and above all, with ethics. Because the subject affects the lives and the future of more than 14 million individuals currently living in Rwanda, and others several times more numerous in other countries in the Great Lakes region. The ultimate objective of his research is therefore neither an academic exercise disguising a bad ideology, nor the pursuit of a career, and even less doing business through research. Although his research project is still a work in progress, the author considered it useful to share his thoughts at this stage with those who are usually interested in the Great Lakes region and the debate on how to address the colonial past. Any comments, observations, documents or new information related to the research topic are therefore welcome at privat.rutazibwa@hu-berlin.de. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1789 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1670 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.title | Letter to supervisor | |
| dc.type | Other |