In recent decades, national governments and international authorities have increasingly emphasized the role of legal institutions in restoring order after political violence. This study explores how, following the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government created new decentralized grassroots legal forums that aimed to produce community out of a divided population. The legal institutions were design...

after occurring massive crimes at countries such as rwanda and primer yugoslavia, several courts started to prosecute criminals. for former yugoslavia, icty and for rwanda domestic courts, gacaca, foreign domestic courts were prosecuting the crimes. this approach caused that international criminal law plays a completely different role compared to internal law. pursuant to development of interna...

Like every war ravaged country, the Republic of Rwanda is reawakening to grapple with challenges post-conflict reintegration and transformation. To scholars observers trend, recuperating at a very high speed due socio-economic reforms apparent commitment Government country rebuild new from rubbles devastation that greeted 1994 genocide. Expectedly, Rwandan government generated laws codes which ...

BACKGROUND In Rwanda, an estimated one million people were killed during the 1994 genocide, leaving the country shattered and social fabric destroyed. Large-scale traumatic events such as wars and genocides have been linked to endemic post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicidality. The study objective was to investigate whether the 1994 genocide exposure is associated with suicide i...