TY - BOOK AU - Ingelaere,Bert TI - Inside Rwanda's Gacaca courts: seeking justice after genocide T2 - Critical human rights SN - 9780299309732 AV - KTD157 .I575 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Madison, Wisconsin PB - The University of Wisconsin Press KW - Gacaca justice system KW - Transitional justice KW - Rwanda KW - Criminal procedure KW - Trials (Genocide) KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1429185&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -