Inside Rwanda's /Gacaca/ Courts
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Inside Rwanda's /Gacaca/ Courts

Seeking Justice after Genocide

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Inside Rwanda's /Gacaca/ Courts

Seeking Justice after Genocide

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. From Genocide to Gacaca
  7. 2. Learning "to Be Kinyarwanda"
  8. 3. Gacaca Mechanics
  9. 4. Experiencing Gacaca
  10. 5. The Weight of the State
  11. 6. Navigating the Social
  12. 7. A Thousand Hills, a Thousand Gacacas
  13. 8. Shades of Heart
  14. Epilogue
  15. Appendix I: Important Dates
  16. Appendix II: Supplementary Tables
  17. Glossary
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index