RT Book
T1 Child perpetrators on trial: insights from post-genocide Rwanda
A1 Barrett, Jastine C.
LA English
PP Cambridge New York, NY Port Melbourne, VIC New Delhi Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1683505255
AB Following a devastating genocide in 1994, the Rwandan government elected to hold all perpetrators accountable - including children. Thousands of children were held in prisons while awaiting charges; some were later convicted. This book is about these children. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research in Rwanda, it documents their journey through prisons, formal courts, gacaca proceedings or re-education centres. Its insights extend beyond Rwanda, looking at how international law protects children accused of even the most serious atrocities. The book is about law in action, and how states, and international organisations, operationalise international standards on child perpetrators in challenging post-conflict conditions. Engaging with theories from international law, international relations and anthropology, it illuminates strategies utilised by UNICEF to promote the rights of alleged child génocidaires and traces UNICEF's positive influence on their protection. It makes the case for principled pragmatism as an approach to human rights promotion in post-conflict societies.
CN 345.67271/0251
SN 9781108678186
K1 Juvenile delinquents : Rwanda
K1 Trials (Genocide) : Rwanda
K1 Juvenile delinquents ; Rwanda
K1 Trials (Genocide) ; Rwanda
K1 Rwanda ; History ; Civil War, 1994 ; Atrocities
K1 Rwanda : History : Atrocities : Civil War, 1994
K1 Völkermord in Ruanda : Jugend : Täter : Prozess
K1 eBook-Cambridge-Gesamt-EBA-2024
DO 10.1017/9781108678186