Rwanda's Gacaca Courts - Between Retribution and Reparation

Informationen zum Autor Paul Christoph Bornkamm has been a senior research fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin since 2007 and a junior lawyer at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin since 2009. He has taught and worked on national and international criminal law as well as transitional justice in Germany and South Africa. Klappentext The Gacaca courts are a traditional justice mechanism used by the Rwandan government to try lower-level perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. This book provides an empirical analysis of these courts, assessing their rules and procedures as well as their contribution to reconciliation in Rwanda. Zusammenfassung The Gacaca courts are a traditional justice mechanism used by the Rwandan government to try lower-level perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. This book provides an empirical analysis of these courts, assessing their rules and procedures as well as their contribution to reconciliation in Rwanda.

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• Authors: Paul Christoph Bornkamm, Paul Christoph (Senior Research Fellow Bornkamm, Bornkamm Paul Christoph
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780199694471
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969447-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law; Oxford Monographs in Internati; Oxford Monographs in Internati; Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, LAW / Court Rules, LAW / Courts, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Legal Reference / Law Profession, Rwanda, International Criminal Law, War Crimes, Public international law: criminal law, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law