TY - BOOK ID - 37130576 TI - Rwanda's Gacaca courts : between retribution and reparation PY - 2012 SN - 0191738328 0191627593 1283579510 9786613891969 0191621927 9780191738326 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gacaca justice system. KW - Trials (Genocide) KW - Transitional justice KW - Reparation (Criminal justice) KW - Rwanda KW - History KW - Compensation for victims of crime KW - Criminal restitution KW - Reparation KW - Restitution (Criminal justice) KW - Restitution for victims of crime KW - Remedies (Law) KW - Justice KW - Human rights KW - Justice, Administration of UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:37130576 AB - Rwanda's Gacaca courts provide an innovative response to the genocide of 1994. Incorporating elements of both African dispute resolution and of Western-style criminal courts, Gacaca courts are in line with recent trends to revive traditional grassroots mechanisms as a way of addressing a violent past. Having been devised as a holistic approach to prosecution and punishment as well as to healing and repairing, they also reflect the increasing importance of victim participation ininternational criminal justice. This book critically examines the Gacaca courts' achievements as a mechanism of crimi ER -