Timothy Longman

Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda

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Produktbeschreibung

A critical exploration of the steps taken to promote peace, reconciliation and justice in post-genocide Rwanda.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9781107678095
• ISBN-10: 1107678099
• Artikelnr.: 48858807

Autorenporträt

Timothy Longman is Director of the African Studies Center and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Boston University. He has previously held teaching and research positions at Vassar College, New York, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and the National University of Rwanda. He has conducted over twenty years of research in Rwanda and is the author of Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (Cambridge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the meaning of Murambi; Part I. Creating What You Are
Afraid Of: The Rwandan Patriotic Front's Transitional Justice Program: 2.
Rewriting history in post-genocide Rwanda; 3. Symbolic struggles; 4.
Justice as memory; 5. From violent repression to political domination:
transitional justice, political reform and development; Part II. Popular
Narratives: 6. Political reform in three Rwandan communities; 7. Popular
narratives of memory and history; 8. Politics by other means: popular
opinion about 'transitional justice'; 9. Conclusion: 'we pretend to live
together': assessing the impact of transitional justice mechanisms in
Rwanda.