Rwanda's Gacaca courts : between retribution and reparation /

"Rwanda's Gacaca Courts provide an innovative response to the genocide of 1994. Incorporating elements of both African dispute resolution and of Western-style criminal courts, Gacaca courts are in line with recent trends to revive traditional grassroots mechanisms as a way of addressing a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bornkamm, Paul Christoph
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series:	Oxford monographs in international humanitarian and criminal law.
Subjects:	Gacaca justice system. Trials (Genocide) > Rwanda. Transitional justice > Rwanda. Reparation (Criminal justice) > Rwanda. Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994. Système judiciaire gacaca. Procès (Génocide) > Rwanda. Justice transitionnelle > Rwanda. Rwanda > Histoire > 1994 (Guerre civile) LAW > Civil Procedure. LAW > Legal Services. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch. Gacaca justice system Reparation (Criminal justice) Transitional justice Trials (Genocide) Rwanda Niedergerichtsbarkeit Rechtsprechung Völkermord in Ruanda Vergangenheitsbewältigung Versöhnung Génocide rwandais (1994) Crimes de guerre > Procès > Rwanda. 1994 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
A short history of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath
The implementation of modern Gacaca
Transitional justice through prosecution
Transitional justice through reparation
Conclusion.