Inside Rwanda's Gacaca courts : seeking justice after genocide / Bert Ingelaere.
2016
KTD157.7 I54 2016 (Mapit)
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Inside Rwanda's Gacaca courts : seeking justice after genocide / Bert Ingelaere.
Imprint
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016.
Description
xvi, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Critical human rights.
Formatted Contents Note
From genocide to Gacaca
Learning "to be kinyarwanda"
Gacaca mechanics
Experiencing Gacaca
The weight of the state
Navigating the social
A thousand hills, a thousand Gacacas
Shades of heart.
Learning "to be kinyarwanda"
Gacaca mechanics
Experiencing Gacaca
The weight of the state
Navigating the social
A thousand hills, a thousand Gacacas
Shades of heart.
Summary
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere, based on his observation of two thousand gacaca trials, offers a comprehensive assessment of what these courts set out to do, how they worked, what they achieved, what they did not achieve, and how they affected Rwandan society. Weaving together vivid firsthand recollections, interviews, and trial testimony with systematic analysis, Ingelaere documents how the gacaca shifted over time from confession to accusation, from restoration to retribution. He precisely articulates the importance of popular conceptions of what is true and just. Marked by methodological sophistication, extraordinary evidence, and deep knowledge of Rwanda, this is an authoritative, nuanced, and bittersweet account of one of the most important experiments in transitional justice after mass violence.
Note
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere, based on his observation of two thousand gacaca trials, offers a comprehensive assessment of what these courts set out to do, how they worked, what they achieved, what they did not achieve, and how they affected Rwandan society. Weaving together vivid firsthand recollections, interviews, and trial testimony with systematic analysis, Ingelaere documents how the gacaca shifted over time from confession to accusation, from restoration to retribution. He precisely articulates the importance of popular conceptions of what is true and just. Marked by methodological sophistication, extraordinary evidence, and deep knowledge of Rwanda, this is an authoritative, nuanced, and bittersweet account of one of the most important experiments in transitional justice after mass violence.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KTD157.7 I54 2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780299309701 hardback alkaline paper
0299309703 hardback alkaline paper
0299309703 hardback alkaline paper
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