Courts in Conflict: Interpreting the Layers of Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda

by Nicola Frances Palmer

Book Overview

The rise of international criminal trials has been accompanied by a call for domestic responses to extraordinary violence. Yet there is remarkably limited research on the interactions among local, national, and international transitional justice institutions. Rwanda offers an early example of multi-level courts operating in concert, through the concurrent practice of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190941898
• ISBN13: 9780190941895
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"