Filip Reyntjens

Filip Reyntjens (born 1952)^[1] is professor emeritus at University of Antwerp. His academic training is in constitutional law, but he later pivoted towards the study of politics especially of the Great Lakes region of Africa.^[2]

Career

In 1975, while working as a research assistant at the University of Antwerp, Reyntjens was asked to be involved in a project that involved running a law school at the National University of Rwanda, in Butare.^[3] This began a long affiliation with Rwanda. His PhD Thesis: 'Power and Law in Rwanda. Public Law and Political Evolution, 1916-1973' (Original French: Pouvoir et droit au Rwanda. Droit public et évolution politique, 1916-1973), was completed in 1983, and later published as a book in 1985.^[4] After this, his research widened from Rwanda to the Great Lakes Region as a whole - publishing work on Burundi and on the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Outside of academia, Reyntjens has been called as an expert witness in cases relating to the Great Lakes region in the courts of multiple nations, as well as before the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.^[5] He has also volunteered for Amnesty International.^[2]

Selected works

• Reyntjens, Filip (1994). L'Afrique des grands lacs en crise. Paris: Karthala. ISBN 9782865375080.
• Reyntjens, Filip (1995). Rwanda: trois jours qui ont fait basculer l'histoire. Brussels: Institut Africain.
• Reyntjens, Filip (2009). The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-11128-7.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}
• Reyntjens, Filip (2013). Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-04355-8.^[11]
• Reyntjens, Filip (2017). Le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda. Que sais-je (in French). Vol. 4062. Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-079582-7.^[12]

References

1. Reyntjens.
2. "Filip Reyntjens - University of Antwerp". www.uantwerpen.be. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
3. "About Filip Reyntjens | Filip Reyntjens | University of Antwerp". www.uantwerpen.be. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
4. Pottier, Johan (1989). "Filip Reyntjens, Pouvoir et droit au Rwanda: droit public et évolution politique, 1916–1973. Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 1985, 584 pp". Africa. 59 (3): 429–431. doi:10.2307/1160264. ISSN 0001-9720. JSTOR 1160264.
5. "Filip Reyntjens". The Strauss Center. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
6. Thomson, Susan (2011). "A Review of "The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006": Reyntjens, Filip, New York: Cambridge University Press, 340 pp., $28.99, ISBN 978-0521169059, Publication Date: August 2010". History: Reviews of New Books. 39 (3): 93–94. doi:10.1080/03612759.2011.557958. S2CID 143277988.
7. "The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006". 23 February 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
8. CLARK, JOHN (2010). "Review of The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 43 (3): 519–521. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 23046826.
9. Sapiano, J. (2010). "The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006, by Filip Reyntjens". African Affairs. 109 (437): 682–683. doi:10.1093/afraf/adq055.
10. Harris, Geoff (2012). "The Great African War: Congo and regional geopolitics, 1996–2006, and: The Trouble with the Congo: local violence and the failure of international peacebuilding (review)". Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. 80 (1): 91–93. doi:10.1353/trn.2012.0051. S2CID 154414917.
11. Day, Christopher (2017). "Political governance in post-genocide Rwanda". African Affairs. 116 (465): 723–724. doi:10.1093/afraf/adx035.
12. "Génocide des Tutsis au Rwanda : un « Que sais-je » très polémique – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 11 October 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2020.