Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Eugenia Zorbas Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 288 ISBN: 9783843357364
Описание
Many government and donor policies in post-genocide Rwanda have been justified in the name of reconciliation yet the term is rarely defined. This book analyses different discourses in order to unpack the nebulous concept. Among distinct constituencies –the Rwandan government, elites, international donors, rural communities– there is some consensus on what reconciliation requires. Most saw the necessity of establishing degrees of responsibility and punishment for the genocide for example. Yet a government early prisoner release programme ostensibly established to implement this policy, was controversial. The term coexistence, not associated with government rhetoric, better matched interviewees'' modest expectations for social relations after the genocide. Based on in-depth interviews, explanatory factors for patterns of coexistence are posited, including that individual life stories since 1994 mattered more in explaining behaviours and attitudes than experiences during the genocide....
