Inside Rwanda's /Gacaca/ Courts : Seeking Justice after Genocide /

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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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ingelaere, Bert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gacaca
Strafverfahren
Völkermord in Ruanda
Trials (Genocide)
Transitional justice.
Gacaca justice system.
Criminal procedure.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Proces (Genocide) > Rwanda.
Justice transitionnelle > Rwanda.
Systeme judiciaire gacaca.
Trials (Genocide) > Rwanda.
Criminal procedure > Rwanda.
Transitional justice > Rwanda.
Rwanda.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. From Genocide to Gacaca; 2. Learning "to Be Kinyarwanda"; 3. Gacaca Mechanics; 4. Experiencing Gacaca; 5. The Weight of the State; 6. Navigating the Social; 7. A Thousand Hills, a Thousand Gacacas; 8. Shades of Heart; Epilogue; Appendix I: Important Dates; Appendix II: Supplementary Tables; Glossary; Notes; References; Index.

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