Board #40 - Breaking the Bootstrapping Paradox: Rwanda's Post-Genocide State-Building Success

• In Event: 75-311 - Poster Session: Understanding Intrastate Conflict and Post-Conflict Development

Brief Overview

This paper examines how Rwanda built developmental state capacity after the 1994 genocide despite facing circular causation where institutions require capacity and capacity requires institutions.

Author

• Zhijun He, Macalester College