Mission Week 2006:

Human Dignity, Human Rights: A Call to Service

The Marquette University Libraries present this resource guide to support classroom discussion of the Mission Week topics: Rwandan genocide, Paul Rusesabagina and “Hotel Rwanda,” human rights, and the discernment of moral choices in our lives.  Library call numbers are provided and when possible, Web links are included for online articles or databases.

Unless special locations are noted, items may be found in Memorial's general collection, locations according to this guide.  Before looking for books on the shelves, users are advised to check circulation status in MARQCAT.  Users may recall books that are currently checked out by clicking on the blue "Recall/Hold" button in the catalog and completing the request procedure.

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        of Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina

Mission Week keynote speaker: Paul Rusesabagina

Current Biography Vol. 66, Issue 5 (2005); p. 72.  Online via Biographies Plus Illustrated

NPR interview with Paul Rusesabagina, June 13, 2005

“Beyond Brave: Paul Rusesabagina stared down killers, saved 1,268 lives and inspired the acclaimed film Hotel Rwanda.” Kyle Smith; Michael Fleeman. People Weekly. Jan 24, 2005 v63 i3 p113. Online via Academic Search Elite.

“’Hotel Rwanda’ hero shares history.” Holley Gilbert. The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon).  October 7, 2005.  North Zoner; Pg. C04

“Rwanda Hotel Manager Issues a Plea.” Stephanie V. Siek.  The Boston Globe.  March 3, 2005, Third Edition. GLOBE WEST; Pg. 5

“Man who inspired 'Hotel Rwanda' recalls grim day, awful aftermath.”  Dixie Reid.  Sacramento Bee. January 7, 2005, Metro Final Edition.  Pg. TK20; MOVIES

Rwandan Genocide

Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda. Peter Uvin (Kumarian Press, 1998)  DT450.435 .U95 1998

Conspiracy to murder: the Rwandan genocide.  Linda Melvern. (Verso, 2004)  DT450.435 .M423 2004

Eyewitness to a genocide: the United Nations and Rwanda.  Michael Barnett.  (Cornell University Press, 2002)  DT450.435 .B38 2002

Genocide in Rwanda: a collective memory.  Edited by John A. Berry and Carol Pott Berry.  (Howard University Press, 1999)  DT450.435 .G47 1999

Genocide in Rwanda: complicity of the churches?  Edited by Carol Rittner, John K. Roth, Wendy Whitworth.  (Aegis; Paragon House, 2004) DT450.435 .G474 2004

Ghosts of Rwanda (DVD, 115 min.).  A Frontline co-production with the BBC and Silverbridge Productions; written, produced, and directed by Greg Barker.  (Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2004)  Raynor Reserves DT450.435 .G56 2004

Hotel Rwanda (DVD, 122 min.) Film by Terry George, produced by A. Kitman George and Terry George (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 2005)  Raynor Reserves PN1997.2 .H68 2005

In Rwanda we say: the family that does not speak dies (VHS video, 54 minutes).  Gacaca Productions & Dominant 7 in association with NDR/ARTE; a film by Anne Aghion.  (First Run/Icarus Films, 2004)  In process; check MARQCAT

Justice in Africa: Rwanda's genocide, its courts, and the UN criminal tribunal.  Paul J. Magnarella.  (Ashgate, 2000)  KTD454 .M34 2000

Justice on the grass: three Rwandan journalists, their trial for war crimes, and a nation's quest for redemption.  Temple-Raston, Dina.  (Free Press, 2005)  DT450.435 .T47 2005

The limits of humanitarian intervention: genocide in Rwanda.  Alan J. Kuperman.   (Brookings Institution Press, 2001)  DT450.435 .K86 2001

Machete season: the killers in Rwanda speak; a report.  Jean Hatzfeld; preface by Susan Sontag.  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)  DT450.435 .H3914 2005

Origins of Rwandan genocide.  Josias Semujanga.  (Humanity Books, 2003)   DT450.435 .S3613 2003

The path of a genocide: the Rwanda crisis from Uganda to Zaire.  Edited by Howard Adelman & Astri Suhrke.  (Transaction Publishers, 1999)  DT450.435 .P385 1999

Peacemaking in Rwanda: the dynamics of failure.  Bruce D. Jones.  (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001)  DT450.435 .J66 2001

A people betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda's genocide.  Linda Melvern.   (St. Martin's Press, 2000)  DT450.435 .M426 2000

Rwanda and genocide in the twentieth century.  Alain Destexhe; translated by Alison Marschner; foreword by William Shawcross.  (New York University Press, 1995)  DT450.435 .R8513 1995

Rwanda and Burundi political map (University of Texas Library map collection)

The Rwanda crisis, 1959-1994: history of a genocide.  Gérard Prunier.  (Hurst, 1995)  DT450.435 .P78 1995

The shadow of Imana : travels in the heart of Rwanda.  Véronique Tadjo; translated by Véronique Wakerley.  (Heinemann, 2002)  DT450.2 .T3313 2002

Sacrifice as terror: the Rwandan genocide of 1994.  Christopher C. Taylor. (Oxford; Berg, 1999)  DT450.435 .T39 1999

Shake hands with the devil: the journey of Roméo Dallaire (DVD, 52 min.) Directed by Peter Raymont. (California Newsreel, 2005)   In Process; check MARQCAT

The shallow graves of Rwanda.  Shaharyar M. Khan; foreword by Mary Robinson.   (I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2000)  DT450.435 .K48 2000

Sometimes in April: HBO Films presents a Raoul Peck film (DVD, 140 min.) (Home Box Office, 2005) Raynor Reserves PN1997.2 .S664 2005

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda.  Philip Gourevitch.  (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998)  DT450.435 .G68 1998

When victims become killers: colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda.  Mahmood Mamdani.  (Princeton University Press, 2001)  DT450.435 .M35 2001

Articles (see databases listed below for more articles)

“Life after death: Local survivors of Rwandan genocide strive for community, understanding and a new beginning.”  Marc Ramirez.  The Seattle Times.  March 4, 2005, Northwest Life; Pg. E1

“Rwanda’s Lessons Yet to be Learned.”  Don Cheadle, John Prendergast. The Boston Globe.   January 8, 2005, Saturday, OP-ED; Pg. A13

"Stopping Genocide." Sarah Glazer.  The CQ Researcher Online 14.29 (2004).

"Rwanda's Quest for Redemption," NPR interview with Dina Temple-Raston, author of Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes, and a Nation's Quest for Redemption

Discernment and Making Choices

Discernment: The Art of Choosing Well; Based on Ignatian Spirituality. Pierre Wolff (Liguoiri, 2004) BV4509.5. W64 2003

The Ethics of Uncertainty: A New Christian Approach to Moral Decision-Making. R. John Elford. (Oneworld, 2000) BJ1415.E44 2000

Heart and Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience. Mary Midgley (Routledge, 2003)   BJ1012 .M52 2003

Listening to the Music of the Spirit: The Art of Discernment. David Lonsdale. (Ave Maria Press, 1992) BV4509.5 .L66 1993

The Politics of Everyday Life: Making Choices, Changing Lives. Paul Ginsborg. (Yale University Press, 2005)  HM831 .G56 2005

When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today. Harvey Cox (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)  BT 304.2 .C69 2004

Human Rights

Catholicism and Human Rights. Mary Ann Glendon.  (University of Dayton, 2001)   BX1795.H85 G54 2001

A Force Profounde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights. Edward Kolodziej (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) JC571 .F628 2003

Genocide, War Crimes, and the West: History and Complicity.  Edited by Adam Jones.  (Zed Books; Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)  HV6322.7 .G458 2004

The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics.  Edited by Helmut Walser Smith in association with William James Booth [et al.].  (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002)  D804.33 .H65 2002

"Human Rights." Kenneth Jost.  The CQ Researcher Online 8.42 (1998)

Human Rights and Diversity: Area Studies Revisited. David Forsythe and Patrice McMahon, eds. (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)  K3240.4 .H76 2003

Human Rights and the Conflict of Cultures: Western and Islamic Perspectives on Religious Liberty. David Little, John Kelsay and Abdulaziz A. Sachedina (University of So. Carolina Press, 1988)  BL65 .H78L57 1988

Human Rights Quarterly (journal, full text of articles online 1981--)

Implementing U.S. Human Rights Policy: Agendas, Policies, and Practices.  Debra Liang-Fenton. . (United States Institute of Peace, 2004) JC571 .I482 2004

The Islamic Quest for Democracy, Pluralism, and Human Rights. Ahmad S. Moussalli (University Press of Florida, 2001)  BP190.5 .D45M37 2001

The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace. John Paul Lederach (Oxford University Press, 2005)  JZ5538 .L43 2005

The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent.  Robert M. Press; photographs by Betty Press.  (University Press of Florida, 1999)  DT353 .P74 1999

"On Hidden Ground: One Coexistence Strategy in Central Africa." Marc Sommers and Elizabeth McClintock in Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity after Violent Ethnic Conflict. Antonia Chayes and Martha Minow, eds. (Jossey-Bass, 2003);  35-58.  HM1121 .I42 2003

"A Problem from Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide. Samantha Power (Basic Books, 2002) HV6322.7 .P69 2002

The question of intervention: statements by the Secretary-General. Kofi A. Annan (United Nations, 1999) KZ6368 .A56 1999

Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of 'Abdolkarim Soroush (Oxford University Press, 2000)  BP190.5 .R4S88 2000

Religious Diversity and Human Rights. Irene Bloom, J. Paul Martin, and Wayne L. Proudfoot (Columbia University Press, 1966)  BL65 .H78R45 1996

Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law. Abdullah Ahmad An-Na'im (Syracuse University Press, 1990)  BP144 .N34

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. Jack Donnelly (Cornell University Press, 2003) JC571 .D755 2003

Who is my Neighbor? Personalism and the foundations of human rights.  Thomas D. Williams.  (Catholic University of America Press, 2005)  BX1795.H85 W55 2005

Human Rights and the Press

Compassion Fatigue: How the media sell disease, famine, war, and death. Susan D. Moeller (Routledge, 1999)  PN4888 .D57M64 1999

Forging Peace: Intervention, human rights, and the management of media space. Edited by Monroe E. Price and Mark Thompson (Indiana University Press, 2002) KZ6368 .F67 2002

Freedom of Information: Ron Ridenhour's Legacy. Lisa Scott Monaghan. New Orleans Magazine 37,4: 14 (Jan. 2003) article available online via Proquest.

The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict. Philip Seib (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)  PN4736 .S45 2002

In Harm's Way. Martin Bell (Hamish Hamilton, 1995)  DR1313.3 .B45 1995

Journalism Worthy of the Name: Freedom Within the Press and the Affirmative side of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Herdis Thogeisdottir (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005)  PN4748 .E85H47 2005

Military Regimes and the Press in Nigeria, 1966-1993: Human rights and national development. Chris W. Ogbondah (University Press of America, 1994)  Z658 .N6O38 1994

The War on our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an age of Terrorism. Edited by Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr. (Public Affairs, 2003)  JC599 .U5W313 2003)

A Witness to Genocide: the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning Dispatches on the "Ethnic Cleansing of Bosnia." Roy Gutman (Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993)  DR1313 .G88 1993

Social Justice and Social Work

Confronting Injustice and Oppression: Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers. David G. Gil (Columbia University Press, 1998) HM216 .G457 1998

Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action. Katherine Van Wormer (Council on Social Work Education, 2004)  MH671 .V36 2004

"Defining Social Injustice in a Socially Unjust World" (article) M. Reisch, Families in Society 2002 (83;4): 343-354

"Human Rights in Catholic Thought" (article) D. Hollenbach, America Oct. 31, 2005: 16-18

Informing the Future: Social Justice in the New Testament. Joseph A. Grassi (Paulist Press, 2003)  BS2545 .J8G73 2003

"Multiculturalism and Social Justice in the United States: An Attempt to Reconcile the Irreconcilable within a Pragmatic Liberal Framework" (article) R. Caputo, Race, Gender & Class 2000 (7;4): 161-182

Social Justice in the Hebrew Bible: What is New and What is Old. Bruce V. Malchow (Liturgical Press, 1996)  BS1199 .J8M35 1996

"Social Justice, the Ethics of Care, and Market Economies" (article) R. Caputo, Families in Society 2002 (83;4): 355-364

Social Work and Human Rights: A Foundation for Policy and Practice. Elizabeth Reichert (Columbia University Press, 2003)  HV41 .R433 2003

Online Resources for Catholic Social Teaching

"The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education," Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. (10/6/00 speech)

"The Busy Christian's Guide to Catholic Social Teaching" (U.S. Catholic)

"Catholic Social Teaching" (Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Office for Social Justice)

"The Promotion of Justice;" Jesuit documents about the service of faith and the promotion of justice (Creighton University) 

"Justice in the World;" World Synod of Catholic Bishops, 1971

"Social Development and World Peace," (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)

"A Place at the Table: A Catholic Recommitment to Overcome Poverty and to Respect the Dignity of All God's Children," U.S. Catholic Bishops' 2002 statement

"Economic Justice for All," U.S. Catholic Bishops' 1986 letter on Catholic social teaching and the U.S. economy

"A Decade After Economic Justice for All: Continuing Principles, Changing Context, New Challenges," National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1995

"Catholic Social Teaching Principles," (Center of Concern)

"Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education" (2005 conference at John Carroll University)

"In All Things: A Jesuit Journal of the Social Apostolate" (Society of Jesus USA)

"Justice" in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
    acting according to, 1697, 1754, 1778, 1787
    actions incompatible with, 1916, 2297, 2325, 2356, 2413, 2476, 2485
    among nations, 2437-42
    "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice," 1716
    definition of, 1807
    distributive, 2236, 2411
    duties of, 1459, 1787, 2401, 2446-47, 2487
    effects of, 2304
    God's, 271, 1040, 1861, 1953, 1987, 1991-92, 2017, 2543
    holiness and original, 375-76, 379, 400, 404
    obligation of lay people to conform, all things to the norms of, 909
    persecution for the sake of righteousness, 1716
    political authorities and, 2237
    requirements of, 1459, 2494-95
    seeking, 1888, 2820
    social, 1928-42, 2425-26, 2832
    virtue of, 1805, 1807, 2479, 2848

Web Sites

Allafrica.com: Human Rights http://allafrica.com/humanrights/

Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/

B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp

The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam http://www.religlaw.org/interdocs/docs/cairohrislam1990.htm

Foreign Affairs Online http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/rjb.html

Heroes Summit in Burundi (2004)  http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/burundi/burundi_hero.html

Human Rights Issues http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/

Human Rights Library http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/index.html

Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/

Islam and Human Rights (Emory University) http://www.law.emory.edu/IHR/

Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights  http://www.karamah.org/home.htm

National Human Rights Commission (New Delhi) http://nhrc.nic.in/

NETWORK, A National Catholic Justice Lobby  http://www.networklobby.org

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign  http://www.kwru.org

Rwanda News http://www.einnews.com/rwanda/

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights http://www.ohchr.org/english/

Radio for Peacebuilding Africa http://www.radiopeaceafrica.org

Rightsforall http://www.rightsforall-usa.org/

Universal Declaration of Human Rights  http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights  http://www.alhewar.com/ISLAMDECL.html

University of Minnesota Human Rights Center Library  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/

U.S. Agency for International Development http://www.usaid.gov


MARQCAT Subject Headings for further research
Crimes Against Humanity
Decision making – Moral and ethical aspects
Decision making – Religious aspects
Discernment
Genocide – Rwanda
Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century
Human rights – Rwanda
Rwanda -- History
Rwanda – History – Civil War – 1994
Rwanda Politics and Government
Tutsi (African People)


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