Remediation in Rwanda : grassroots legal forums

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    • Doughty, Kristin

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Remediation in Rwanda : grassroots legal forums

Kristin Conner Doughty

(The ethnography of political violence)

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-264) and index

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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. Postgenocide Rwandan officials developed new local courts ostensibly modeled on traditional practices of dispute resolution as part of a broader national policy of unity and reconciliation. The three legal forums at the heart of Remediation in Rwanda-genocide courts called inkiko gacaca, mediation committees called comite y'abunzi, and a legal aid clinic-all emphasized mediation based on principles of compromise and unity, brokered by third parties with the authority to administer punishment. Doughty demonstrates how exhortations to unity in legal forums served as a form of cultural control, even as people rebuilt moral community and conceived alternative futures through debates there. Investigating a broad range of disputes, she connects the grave disputes about genocide to the ordinary frictions people endured living in its aftermath. Remediation in Rwanda is therefore about not only national reconstruction but also a broader narrative of how the embrace of law, particularly in postconflict contexts, influences people's lives. Though law-based mediation is framed as benign-and is often justified as a purer form of culturally rooted dispute resolution, both by national governments such as Rwanda's, and in the transitional justice movement more broadly-its implementation, as Doughty reveals, involves coercion and accompanying resistance. Yet in grassroots legal forums that are deeply contextualized, law-based mediation can open up spaces in which people negotiate the micropolitics of reconciliation.

目次

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

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