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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785497803321

Autore

Clark Philip <1979->

Titolo

The Gacaca courts, post-genocide justice and reconciliation in Rwanda : justice without lawyers / / Phil Clark [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010

ISBN

9780511927508 (eBook)

0511927509

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 388 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in law and society

Disciplina

364.15/10967571

Soggetti

Genocide - Rwanda

Gacaca justice system

Restorative justice - Rwanda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.