Remediation in Rwanda : Grassroots Legal Forums / Kristin Conner Doughty.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780812292398
- DT450.44 .D68 2016
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Harmony Legal Models and the Architecture of Social Repair -- Chapter 1. Silencing the Past: Producing History and the Politics of Memory -- Chapter 2. Escaping Dichotomies: Grassroots Law in Historical and Global Context -- Chapter 3. Gacaca Days and Genocide Citizenship -- Chapter 4. Comite y’Abunzi: Politics and Poetics of the Ordinary -- Chapter 5. The Legal Aid Clinic: Mediation as Thick Description -- Chapter 6. Improvising Authority: Lay Judges as Intermediaries -- Conclusion. Legal Architectures of Social Repair -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Kristin Conner Doughty examines how Rwandans navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994 genocide.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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