The Gacaca courts, post-genocide justice and reconciliation in Rwanda : justice without lawyers / Phil Clark.
2010
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The Gacaca courts, post-genocide justice and reconciliation in Rwanda : justice without lawyers / Phil Clark.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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1 online resource (xii, 388 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Cambridge studies in law and society.
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Framing Gacaca : six transitional justice themes
Moulding tradition : the history, law and hybridity of Gacaca
Interpreting Gacaca : the rationale for analysing a dynamic socio-legal institution
The Gacaca journey : the rough road to justice and reconciliation
Gacaca's modus operandi : engagement through popular participation
Gacaca's pragmatic objectives
Accuser, liberator or reconciler?
truth through Gacaca
Law, order and restoration : peace and justice through Gacaca
Mending hearts and minds : healing and forgiveness through Gacaca
(Re)fusing social bonds : Gacaca and reconciliation.
Moulding tradition : the history, law and hybridity of Gacaca
Interpreting Gacaca : the rationale for analysing a dynamic socio-legal institution
The Gacaca journey : the rough road to justice and reconciliation
Gacaca's modus operandi : engagement through popular participation
Gacaca's pragmatic objectives
Accuser, liberator or reconciler?
truth through Gacaca
Law, order and restoration : peace and justice through Gacaca
Mending hearts and minds : healing and forgiveness through Gacaca
(Re)fusing social bonds : Gacaca and reconciliation.
Summary
Since 2001, the Gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning genocide crimes. Lawyers are banned from any official involvement, an issue that has generated sustained criticism from human rights organisations and international scepticism regarding Gacaca's efficacy. Drawing on more than six years of fieldwork in Rwanda and nearly five hundred interviews with participants in trials, this in-depth ethnographic investigation of a complex transitional justice institution explores the ways in which Rwandans interpret Gacaca. Its conclusions provide indispensable insight into post-genocide justice and reconciliation, as well as the population's views on the future of Rwanda itself.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511761584 ebook
9780521193481 (hardback)
9781107404106 (paperback)
9780521193481 (hardback)
9781107404106 (paperback)
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