Synopses & Reviews
In After Genocide, leading scholars and practitioners analyse the political, legal and regional impact of events in post-genocide Rwanda within the broader themes of transitional justice and reconciliation. Given the forthcoming fifteenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, and continued mass violence in Africa, especially in Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and northern Uganda, this volume is unquestionably of continuing relevance. The book includes chapters from leading scholars in this field, including William Schabas, Rene Lemarchand, Linda Melvern, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Jennifer Welsh along with senior government and non-government officials involved in matters related to Rwanda and transitional justice, including Hassan Bubacar Jallow (Chief Prosecutor of the ICTR), Martin Ngoga (Prosecutor General of the Republic of Rwanda) and Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor of the ICC.Because Rwandan voices have rarely been heard internationally in the aftermath of the genocide, this anthology also incorporates chapters from Rwandan academics and practitioners, such as Tom Ndahiro, Solomon Nsabiyera Gasana and Jean-Baptiste Kayigamba, all of whom are also survivors of the 1994 genocide, and draws on their personal experiences. After Genocide constitutes the most comprehensive survey to date of issues related to post-genocide Rwanda and transitional justice.
Review
"This book should be labelled 'for the mature individual only.' But for that mature individual it is of extreme interest. It shows, far from any Manichean stereotyping, the many facets of having to try to live in an impossibly complex social and human situation. Highly recommended."--Gerard Prunier, author, The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
"Readers concerned about Rwanda's future should read this book....Essential."--Choice
"This anthology will be a vital tool for individuals studying the genocide, assessing its legal, psychological, and sociological impact, or examining transitional justice frameworks."--Stephanie Wolfe, H-Genocide
About the Author
Philip Clark is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.
Zachary D. Kaufman is an Olin Fellow at Yale Law School.
Table of Contents
Preface President Paul Kagame
Foreword Luis Moreno Ocampo
part i. introduction and background
After Genocide
Phil Clark and Zachary D. Kaufman
1. The Past is Prologue: Planning the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Linda Melvern
2. Without Justice, No Reconciliation: A Survivor's Experience
of Genocide
Jean Baptiste Kayigamba
3. The Peacekeeping System, Britain and the 1994 Rwandan
Genocide
Paul D. Williams
part ii. politics of memory, identity and healing
4. The Politics of Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda
René Lemarchand
5. Reconstructing Political Identities in Rwanda
Helen Hintjens
6. Genocide-Laundering: Historical Revisionism, Genocide Denial
and the Rassemblement Républicain pour la Démocratie au
Rwanda
Tom Ndahiro
7. We are Pretending Peace: Local Memory and the Absence
of Social Transformation and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Susanne Buckley-Zistel
8. Confronting Conflict and Poverty through Trauma Healing:
Integrating Peace-building and Development Processes in Rwanda
Solomon Nsabiyera Gasana
9. Only Healing Heals: Concepts and Methods of Psycho-Social
H ealing in Post-Genocide Rwanda
John Steward
part iii. post-genocide transitional justice,
reconstruction and reconciliation
10. Establishing a Conceptual Framework: Six Key
Transitional Justice Themes
Phil Clark
11. Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda: A Spectrum of Options
William A. Schabas
12. The United States Role in the Establishment of the United
Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Zachary D. Kaufman
13. The Contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda to the Development of International Criminal Law
Hassan Bubacar Jallow
14. Prosecuting Genocide in the Digital