The Gacaca courts, post-genocide justice and reconciliation in Rwanda justice without lawyers
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 involveme...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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