The legacies of collective violence. The Rwandan genocide and the limits of law

http://bostonreview.net/world/helena-cobban-legacies-collective-violence

This paper presents race and imprisonment in Rwanda and Yugoslavia inthe twenty-first-century...."Much evidence from the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda—two areas devastated by ethnic cleansing and genocidal mass murder—should make us nervous about the role to be played by the future ICC. When it established ICTY and ICTR, the UN Security Council expressed its hope that these bodies would help to bring inter-group reconciliation to the societies in question. That goal has not been achieved, if it was even pursued. Indeed, given the adversarial nature of proceedings in a Western-style criminal court—a system designed to produce clear "winners" and "losers"—it is hard to see how the courts could have achieved it, absent any broader political strategy for fostering peace and reconciliation...."

Author(s): Cobban, Helena Originator(s): Boston Review
Resource added in: 12/07/2002
Available languages: English
Violence, Human Rights, Legislation & jurisprudence, Advocacy
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