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SUMMARY:Community Justice for Genocide: The Gacaca Courts\, Justice and Re
 conciliation in Rwanda - Dr. Phil Clark\, Research Fellow in Courts and Pu
 blic Policy\, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Dacia Viejo Rose
DESCRIPTION:In 1994\, the Rwandan genocide claimed the lives of 800\,000 T
 utsi and their Hutu and Twa sympathisers in one of the twentieth century's
  worst waves of mass killing.   Seven years later\, the Rwandan government
  responded to the problem of 120\,000 genocide suspects languishing in pri
 son by instituting gacaca\, a system of 9000 community courts based on a t
 raditional mode of conflict resolution and transformed to prosecute genoci
 de cases.  Human rights groups and international observers protested that 
 gacaca would be nothing more than mob justice and predicted that the court
 s would inflame tensions between Hutu and Tutsi.  Drawing on seven years o
 f research\, including firsthand observations of community hearings and hu
 ndreds of interviews with gacaca judges\, genocide suspects and survivors 
 and Rwandan government officials\, Dr. Phil Clark explores the social and 
 political impact of the gacaca process and the prospects for justice\, rec
 onciliation and long-term peace and stability in Rwanda and the wider Grea
 t Lakes region. \n\nBio:  \nDr. Phil Clark is a Research Fellow in Courts 
 and Public Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies\, University of Ox
 ford\, and co-convenor of Oxford Transitional Justice Research. 
LOCATION:CRASSH Seminar Room\, 17 Mill Lane
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