... Third generation NGO strategies look beyond the individual community and seek changes in spec... more ... Third generation NGO strategies look beyond the individual community and seek changes in specific policies and institutions at local, national and ... Fourth generation strategies look beyond focused initiatives aimed at changing specific policies and institutional sub-systems. ...
Page 1. Page 2. UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) Research for A... more Page 1. Page 2. UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) Research for Action 24 Development, Aid and Conflict Reflections from the Case of Rwanda Peter Uvin This study has been prepared ...
This well-documented book analyzes the manifold inconsistent, inefficient, piecemeal, and sometim... more This well-documented book analyzes the manifold inconsistent, inefficient, piecemeal, and sometimes counterproductive ways the international community intervened in the dynamics of violence that beset Rwanda before, during, and after the 1994 genocide. Klinghoffer takes a position that runs counter to the popular description of the international community as being totally inactive and uncaring before and during the genocide. Rather, he maintains, interventions did take place, but they failed to achieve their aims. At a descriptive level, Klinghoffer, following Bruce Jones (“‘Intervention without Borders:’ Humanitarian Intervention in Rwanda 1990–1994,” Millennium 24 [Summer 1995]: 225–49), makes this point rather successfully. The book contains many interesting pieces of information that, taken together, force us to acknowledge some new elements in the simple picture that has become so dominant about the international community's conduct in Rwanda.
Rwanda represents an important test case for the emerging international postconflict agenda. The ... more Rwanda represents an important test case for the emerging international postconflict agenda. The so-called international community has rarely invested so massively in justice and human rights as part of an attempt to restore peace and promote democracy and reconciliation. These efforts come in the wake of the worst genocide of the late twentieth century, leaving up to 800,000 dead by mid-1994.1 Of course, good intentions never guaranteed good outcomes, and this is especially true for a society as destroyed, divided, suspicious, poor, and traumatized as Rwanda's. In this article we analyze the local politics and perceptions of postgenocide justice in Rwanda and the relationship of justice to peace, democracy, and reconciliation. There are currently three types of efforts to deal with the perpetra tors of genocide in Rwanda, and all receive significant international support: the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the formal domestic justice system, and gacaca. We present the aims of the international community for each type and juxtapose these with the internal politics within Rwanda. We argue that the first two Western inspired systems of justice have proven incapable of addressing the needs of Rwanda. The third system, gacaca, offers a promising alterna tive to achieve not only justice, but reconciliation and grassroots empowerment as well. This promise, however, also poses risks.
... Third generation NGO strategies look beyond the individual community and seek changes in spec... more ... Third generation NGO strategies look beyond the individual community and seek changes in specific policies and institutions at local, national and ... Fourth generation strategies look beyond focused initiatives aimed at changing specific policies and institutional sub-systems. ...
Page 1. Page 2. UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) Research for A... more Page 1. Page 2. UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) Research for Action 24 Development, Aid and Conflict Reflections from the Case of Rwanda Peter Uvin This study has been prepared ...
This well-documented book analyzes the manifold inconsistent, inefficient, piecemeal, and sometim... more This well-documented book analyzes the manifold inconsistent, inefficient, piecemeal, and sometimes counterproductive ways the international community intervened in the dynamics of violence that beset Rwanda before, during, and after the 1994 genocide. Klinghoffer takes a position that runs counter to the popular description of the international community as being totally inactive and uncaring before and during the genocide. Rather, he maintains, interventions did take place, but they failed to achieve their aims. At a descriptive level, Klinghoffer, following Bruce Jones (“‘Intervention without Borders:’ Humanitarian Intervention in Rwanda 1990–1994,” Millennium 24 [Summer 1995]: 225–49), makes this point rather successfully. The book contains many interesting pieces of information that, taken together, force us to acknowledge some new elements in the simple picture that has become so dominant about the international community's conduct in Rwanda.
Rwanda represents an important test case for the emerging international postconflict agenda. The ... more Rwanda represents an important test case for the emerging international postconflict agenda. The so-called international community has rarely invested so massively in justice and human rights as part of an attempt to restore peace and promote democracy and reconciliation. These efforts come in the wake of the worst genocide of the late twentieth century, leaving up to 800,000 dead by mid-1994.1 Of course, good intentions never guaranteed good outcomes, and this is especially true for a society as destroyed, divided, suspicious, poor, and traumatized as Rwanda's. In this article we analyze the local politics and perceptions of postgenocide justice in Rwanda and the relationship of justice to peace, democracy, and reconciliation. There are currently three types of efforts to deal with the perpetra tors of genocide in Rwanda, and all receive significant international support: the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the formal domestic justice system, and gacaca. We present the aims of the international community for each type and juxtapose these with the internal politics within Rwanda. We argue that the first two Western inspired systems of justice have proven incapable of addressing the needs of Rwanda. The third system, gacaca, offers a promising alterna tive to achieve not only justice, but reconciliation and grassroots empowerment as well. This promise, however, also poses risks.
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