The Politics of Reparations and Apologies: Historical and Symbolic Justice within the Rwandan Context

Wolfe, Stephanie

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“…Through state-sponsored commemorations, “cultural” events (plays and concerts), and news media (television, radio, and newspapers), Rwandans learned that harmonious relations between Rwandans under the monarchy had been destroyed by Belgian colonists, who introduced ethnic divisionism into the country and laid the foundations for genocide (Jessee 2017; Vidal 2004; Wolfe 2014). Against this backdrop, the RPF emerged as not only the “liberating” force of a nation possessed by colonial ideology, but also the reincarnation of the benevolent pre-colonial polity.…”

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Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh”

Berman¹

2023

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Conversations around transitional justice often focus on concepts of victimhood and perpetration. Such has been the case in Rwanda in the decades following the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. However, even as Rwandans continue to observe state-led transitional justice reforms which divide them into victims and perpetrators, they simultaneously draw on state discourses of unity to carefully critique and re-work the language and practices which produce such divisions. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Berman illustrates how a new generation of Rwandan youth is transforming political genocide ideology by creatively engaging the discourse of ubunyarwanda (Rwandanness) to forge inclusive post-genocide politics.

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Section: Remembering To Forget: Ubunyarwanda As a Rwandan Strategy Of...mentioning

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Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh”

Berman¹

2023

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites

Mantilla-Blanco

2024

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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The Politics of Reparations and Apologies: Historical and Symbolic Justice within the Rwandan Context

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Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh”

Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh”

Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites

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