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Cambridge Studies in Law and Society: The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda: Justice without Lawyers
Phil Clark
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Paperback. Phil Clark explores the impact of the Gacaca community courts, the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Num Pages: 402 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; LAQ; LNFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 578.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
402
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107404106
SKU
V9781107404106
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Reviews for Cambridge Studies in Law and Society: The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda: Justice without Lawyers
'Clark's book is the culmination of nine years of research on and in Rwanda, and it exhibits the combination of breadth and level of detail that is made possible through such an extended engagement with a topic ... Clark provides his readers with a wide horizon of possible interpretations of this unique process, and this book will certainly reorient the ... Read more