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PF Rwanda's Reconciliation Work
This 2003 video explores the reconciliation work of Prison Fellowship Rwanda.
Ridell, Jennifer G.. Addressing Crimes Against International Law:Rwanda’s Gacaca in Practice.
Rwanda experienced horrific genocide in 1994. In its aftermath, national and international trials were established but these trials failed to deal ...
Vandeginste, Stef. Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Context of Armed Conflict and Failed Political Transition
In the spring of 1994 Rwanda experienced an onslaught of genocide, with hundreds of thousands of minority Tsutsis and moderate Hutus killed in about three ...
Uvin, Peter and Mironko, Charles. Western and Local Approaches to Justice in Rwanda
Peter Uvin and Charles Mironko assert that Rwanda represents an important test case for the emerging international post-conflict agenda. In the wake of the ...
Interview with Pierre Allard on Rwanda and DRC
Following are three video segments of an interview with Pierre Allard on the television programme 100 Huntley Street. Pierre Allard was formerly Chaplain ...
Borland, Rosilyne M. The Gacaca Tribunals and Rwanda after Genocide: Effective Restorative Community Justice or Further Abuse of Human Rights?
The genocide in Rwanda in the spring of 1994 was one of the world’s most horrific acts of collective violence. National and international attempts to deal with ...
Aghion, Anne. In Rwanda we say: the family that does not speak dies
In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies follows a genocide offender as he is conditionally released into his community. Through interviews with ...
Adediran, Adebanke. Employment of Restorative Justice in Securing Peace in the Republic of Rwanda
This thesis revolves around the need to initiate restorative justice in Rwanda after its long history of genocide. Rwanda has experienced a series of armed ...
Braley, Matthew Bersagel. Rooting, Reforming, Restoring: A Framework for Justice in Rwanda.
[1] The Gacaca (ga-CHA-cha) trials in Rwanda represent a radical and necessary alternative to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the ...
Powell, Jeffrey H.. Amnesty reintegration, and reconciliation in Rwanda.
Amnesty, reintegration, and reconciliation are conceptual tools for clearing centuries of moral debris from the Rwandan societal landscape. One of the RPF's ...
Friedley, Kathie. Umuvumu Tree Project: A Ministry of Reconciliation in Rwanda.
With the imminent release of thousands of genocide prisoners angry over eight years of imprisonment without trial into communities still bitter over the ...
Beckers, Martine. The Needs of Victims and Survivors of Genocide in Rwanda and Programs to Alleviate the Burden
In this paper, Martine Beckers looks at violence and the victims of genocide and massacres that took place in Rwanda in 1994. She concentrates on the needs of ...
Drumbl, Mark A. Law and Atrocity: Settling Accounts in Rwanda.
Genocidal violence afflicted Rwanda in the spring and early summer of 1994 when extremist Hutus tried to eliminate Tutsis and moderate Hutus from the country. ...
Marek, Ed. Gacaca, Inkundla, traditional systems of justice being looked at in the US as ‘Restorative Justice.’
This article deals with traditional justice in Africa and restorative justice in the United States. Following periods of violence in Rwanda and South Africa, ...
Drew, Philip J. Dealing with mass atrocities and ethnic violence: Can alternative forms of justice be effective?
Drew explores the troubles in Rwanda as an example of the difficulties that confront countries as they try to move from violent conflict to democratic rule. ...
Forgiveness: Human or Divine?
from Josh Ruxin's entry on Huffington Post: Earlier this month the film As We Forgive, a documentary about Rwanda, was released on DVD (check out the trailer ...
A safe place to call home: Securing the right of Rwandan genocide survivors to resettlement outside Rwanda
from Noam Schimmel's article in The Journal Of Humanitarian Assistance: Genocide survivors in Rwanda have great difficulty receiving refugee status and ...
May 2006 Edition
Stories include: Restorative Justice in the Youth Court: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?; Finger Lakes Restorative Justice Center; Book Review: Honest Patriots: ...
. Social work with victims of genocide: The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) in Rwanda.
Reconciliation is a multi-dimensional process that has increased in importance in countries dealing with post-conflict situations, and as a result social ...
Fink, Jason Benjamin . DEONTOLOGICAL RETRIBUTIVISM AND THE LEGAL PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL JURISPRUDENCE: THE CASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA
In what follows, I present the argument that in the context of postgenocidal Rwandan society, the imposition of a formal legal structure by the United Nations ...
Parker, Lynette. Video Reviews: Gacaca: Living Together in Rwanda? & In Rwanda We Say… The Family That Does Not Speak Dies
The Rwandan government chose to use an indigenous conflict resolution process to try many of the suspects held for genocide crimes. These two films provide a ...
Tiemessen, Alana Erin. After Arusha: Gacaca Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
The epicentre of post-genocide Rwandan society and politics has been the need for reconciliation to assuage ethnic tensions and end a culture of impunity. The ...
Kottukapally, John Thomas. Umuvumu Tree Project
When the Sycamore Tree Project®, developed by Prison Fellowship International, was adapted in Rwanda, Africa it became the Umuvumu Tree Project. While the ...
Aghion, Anne and Ben Rachid, Nadia and Kakwerere, James and Hagnery, Mathieu and Bocahut, Laurent and Brooks, Philip. Gacaca: Living Together in Rwanda?
Because individual Rwandans tell their stories, Gacaca: Living Together in Rwanda opens a window to the horror, pain, and continued suffering experienced in ...
Lambourne, Wendy. "The pursuit of justice and reconciliation: Responding to genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda."
In this paper Lambourne explores the pursuit of justice and reconciliation in response to situations involving genocide, with particular emphasis on Cambodia ...
Raper, Jessica. The Gacaca Experiment: Rwanda's Restorative Dispute Resolution Response to the 1994 Genocide
Since its rise to power in July of 1994, the Rwandan government has been committed to prosecuting all those accused of genocide. To prosecute ...
Justice in Rwanda
Justice in Rwanda
Vandeginste, Stef. Victims of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Rwanda: the legal and institutional framework of their right to reparation
When a country experiences a transition from an oppressive regime or period to a more democratic and peaceful situation, questions arise as to accountability ...
Kirkby, Coel. Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: A Preliminary Critique.
More than a decade after the genocide in Rwanda, all efforts were still failing to achieve justice for victims. This article begins by contrasting retributive ...
Meyerstein, Ariel. Between Law and Culture: Rwanda's Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality.
This article recounts a clash between an establishment international nongovernmental organization (NGO), Amnesty International, and the government of Rwanda ...