You would probably like
Three Cups of Tea.
I don't know if you are more interested in domestic or international efforts. Let me know. Robert Egger is one of my personal heroes and relatively recently wrote a book called
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But based on some of your previous posts I think Three Cups is pretty up your alley, also
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On genocide: I don't know exactly whether we're going for journalistic, anthropological, etc. Chris Hedges,
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There are a variety of case studies like this though, based on other countries, if I recall you are interested in Uganda. Ishmael Beah's (Sierra Leone) memoir
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