Table of Contents

After Genocide

Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond
Phil Clark and Zachary D. Kaufman (editors)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Note

Abbreviations

Glossary

The Contributors

Preface – President Paul Kagame

Foreword – Luis Moreno Ocampo

Part I.       Introduction and Background

  • After Genocide
    Phil Clark and Zachary D. Kaufman
  • The Past is Prologue:  Planning the 1994 Rwandan Genocide 
    Linda Melvern
  • Without Justice, No Reconciliation:  A Survivor’s Experience of Genocide 
    Jean Baptiste Kayigamba
  • The Peacekeeping System, Britain and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
    Paul D. Williams

Part II.      Politics of Memory, Identity and Healing

  • The Politics of Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda
    René Lemarchand
  • Reconstructing Political Identities in Rwanda
    Helen Hintjens
  • Genocide-Laundering:  Historical Revisionism, Genocide Denial and the Role of the Rassemblement Républicain pour la Démocratie au Rwanda
    Tom Ndahiro
  • We are Pretending Peace:  Local Memory and the Absence of Social Transformation and Reconciliation in Rwanda
    Susanne Buckley-Zistel
  • Confronting Conflict and Poverty through Trauma Healing:  Integrating Peace-building and Development Processes in Rwanda
    Solomon Nsabiyera Gasana
  • Only Healing Heals: Concepts and Methods of Psycho-Social Healing in Post-Genocide Rwanda
    John Steward

Part III.    Post-Genocide Transitional Justice, Reconstruction and Reconciliation

  • Establishing a Conceptual Framework:  Six Key Transitional Justice Themes
    Phil Clark
  • Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda: A Spectrum of Options
    William A. Schabas
  • The United States Role in the Establishment of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 
    Zachary D. Kaufman
  • The Contribution of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to the Development of International Criminal Law
    Hassan Bubacar Jallow
  • Prosecuting Genocide in the Digital Age: An Information Management Perspective
    Maria Warren and Alison Cole
  • The Rules (and Politics) of Engagement:  The Gacaca Courts and Post-Genocide Justice, Healing and Reconciliation in Rwanda 
    Phil Clark
  • The Institutionalisation of Impunity:  A Judicial Perspective of the Rwandan Genocide
    Martin Ngoga

Part IV.    Legal and Institutional Lessons after Rwanda

  • The Rwanda Effect: The Development and Endorsement of the “Responsibility to Protect”
    Jennifer M. Welsh
  • Some Lessons for the International Criminal Court from the International Judicial Response to the Rwandan Genocide
    Morten Bergsmo and Philippa Webb
  • Balancing Justice and Order: State-building and the Prosecution of War Crimes in Rwanda and Kosovo
    Dominik Zaum
  • Tensions in Transitional Justice
    Phil Clark, Zachary D. Kaufman and Kalypso Nicolaïdis
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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.

-  Gérard Prunier

The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (Hurst, 1995)

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