Remediation in Rwanda: Grassroots Legal Forums

by Kristin Doughty and Kristin Conner Doughty

Kristin Conner Doughty examines how Rwandans navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994 genocide. Postgenocide Rwandan officials developed new local courts ostensibly modeled on traditional practices of dispute resolution as part of a broader national policy of unity and reconciliation. The three legal forums at the heart of Remediation in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247833
• ISBN13: 9780812247831
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"