RT Article
T1 ‘We came to realize we are judges’: moral careers of elected lay jurists in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 14
IS 3
SP 443
OP 463
A1 Nyseth Nzitatira, Hollie
A2 Roberts, Louisa L. 1980-
A2 Uggen, Christopher J.
A2 Gasanabo, Jean-Damascene
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1748075861
AB In the wake of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda’s government created the Gacaca courts to hold suspected perpetrators accountable. Although much has been written about these courts, researchers know comparatively less about the 250,000 individuals who served as Gacaca court judges (inyangamugayo). We draw upon 135 interviews to explore how the inyangamugayo entered and adapted to their new public roles as moral arbiters, how these judges understood Gacaca’s missions, and how their social identities evolved over the course of multiple status transitions. Building on Erving Goffman’s sequential approach to moral careers, we trace the process of becoming a judge. In doing so, we highlight the two overarching missions that surfaced during the interviews - justice and reconciliation - and how the judges continued to view themselves as inyangamugayo even after the courts closed.
NO Literaturhinweise
K1 Völkermord
K1 Konflikt
K1 Auswirkung
K1 Transitional Justice
K1 Strafgericht
K1 Richter
K1 Berufslaufbahn
K1 Karriere
K1 Moral
K1 Recht
K1 Tradition
K1 Ruanda
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa018