‘Social truth’ as an approach to transitional justice in gacaca courts in post- genocide Rwanda

dc.contributor.advisorIyi, John-Mark
dc.contributor.authorKarungi, Viola
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-22T07:54:25Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-02T09:02:35Z
dc.date.available2022-03-22T07:54:25Z
dc.date.available2024-04-02T09:02:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionMagister Legum - LLMen_US
dc.description.abstractThis mini-thesis makes a claim that when Rwanda established the rule of Gacaca court system as a communal mechanism of transitional justice in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, it accordingly enabled space for the ‘social truth’ to take centre stage as opposed to the legal truth. As such, testimonies by perpetrators and accounts by witnesses could only be permissible in Gacaca courts if they were socially acceptable by the community, and any evidence only needed to be orally validated by community members but not verified through formal legal procedures. The principal objective of this mini-thesis, therefore, is to examine how the ‘social truth’ was employed by Gacaca courts and how this kind of truth resonated with the communal nature of the courts.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/10337
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectSocial truthen_US
dc.subjectGacaca Courtsen_US
dc.subjectTransitional justiceen_US
dc.subjectInternational criminal lawen_US
dc.subjectGenocideen_US
dc.title‘Social truth’ as an approach to transitional justice in gacaca courts in post- genocide Rwandaen_US

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