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SUMMARY:Transitional Justice Practitioners in Rwanda: Writing and Implementing the Gacaca Legal Framework
DESCRIPTION:Political Settlement Research Project member Astrid Jamar is presenting a lecture at the Dundee International Law Society (DILS) at the University of Dundee\, on 3rd November 2015. \nTransitional Justice Practitioners in Rwanda: Writing and Implementing the Gacaca Legal Framework  \nFrom 2004 to 2012\, 15\,300 gacaca courts ruled on over 2 million cases of genocide crimes committed in 1994\,during which an estimated 1 million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed. The gacaca process is a popular tribunal system inspired by a traditional form of conflict resolution\, which was modified to deal with the judicial and penitentiary burden created by the genocide. The 2004 gacaca law establishes various aims\, such as to establish truth\, to instil reconciliation\, to reinsert victims and culprits into society\, and to fight against impunity. It refers to international and national legislation and Rwandan culture. While it is often depicted as a traditionally based system in policy discourse\, it became strictly defined by the legal framework. \nThis complex legal framework was the culmination of long negotiations between various positions and concerns expressed by national and international actors involved in the gacaca preparation. The gacaca process inevitably deviated from the framework. Each community implemented the gacaca law according to its experience of the genocide and their current circumstances. Some 20 years after the genocide\, the national political agenda has moved away from transitional justice matters. Former donors of gacaca have gradually disengaged from the process; the main supporters have re-orientated their aid towards other matters. At the same time\, the law that terminated gacaca courts transferred competences to other institutions in 2012. This transfer received limited attention from the practitioners interviewed during my fieldwork. Using anthropological methods\, my research scrutinised these negotiations between TJ practitioners in relations to the writing and implementation of the gacaca legal framework marked by the infiltration of social and political dimensions. \nAstrid Jamar Research Information  \n
URL:https://psrpdev.law.ed.ac.uk/psrpx/event/transitional-justice-practitioners-in-rwanda-writing-and-implementing-the-gacaca-legal-framework/
LOCATION:Carnegie Lecture Theatre\, University of Dundee\, Dundee\, DD1 4HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Event,GJA
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