Peasants in Power

Philip Verwimp is Associate Professor of Development Economics at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he holds the Marie and Alain Philippson Chair in Sustainable Human Development. He is Fellow of ECARES, member of the Centre Emile Bernheim and co-founder and co-director of the Households in Conflict Network. He is author and co-author of articles published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Journal of Agrarian Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the Journal of Peace Research, among others.

• Chapter 1. Introductory Chapter: Development, Dictatorship and Genocide.- Chapter 2. The Nature of the Second Republic.- Chapter 3. The Rwandan Economy 1973-1994: From Macro to Micro.- Chapter 4. The Political Economy of Coffee and Dictatorship.- Chapter 5. Crop Failure and Famine in Southern Rwanda.- Chapter 6. The 1990-92 Massacres: A Case of Spatial and Social Engeneering?.- Chapter 7. Civil War, Multipartism, Coup d’Etat and Genocide.- Chapter 8. Collective Action, Norms and Peasant Participation in Genocide.- Chapter 9. Fieldwork in Gitarama: Introduction, Setting and Methods; Co-authored by Jacob Boersema and Philip Verwimp.- Chapter 10. The Developmental State at Work: Agricultural Monitors becoming Political Entrepreneurs; Co-authored by Jacob Boersema, Arlette Brone, Jerome Charlier, Bert Ingelaere, Shanley Pinchotti, Inge Thiry, Cecelle Meijer, Marij Spiesschaert and Philip Verwimp.- Chapter 11. Concluding Chapter: The Endogenous Genocide.