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📘 Reconstruction began with missing institutions

When the genocide against the Tutsi ended in July 1994, Rwanda inherited destroyed courts, prisons, records, schools, roads, and homes.

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What you’ll learn

  1. A devastated state had to be rebuiltExplain why post-genocide reconstruction required security, public institutions, and rules that addressed identity without reproducing collective blame.Rwanda rebuilt state capacity under emergency conditions while negotiating the relationship between unity, security, and political legitimacy.
  2. Justice and reconciliation were institutional workCompare the ICTR and gacaca as different responses to responsibility, evidence, scale, and reconciliation.International and community justice addressed different parts of the post-genocide caseload and carried different institutional risks.
  3. Return, development, and unfinished recoveryConnect refugee return, public services, economic recovery, and why reconstruction remains an ongoing institutional task.Recovery became real through everyday institutions, but movement, growth, and memory keep reconstruction unfinished.

Questions this course answers

Why was reconstruction more than repairing buildings?

Postwar recovery required both material capacity and institutions that could protect rights and manage disputes.

What problem did gacaca primarily address?

Gacaca expanded local participation and case processing while creating important fairness and safety risks.

Why did refugee return connect national reconstruction to regional politics?

Return involved civilian protection, property, identity, and armed mobilization across the Great Lakes region.

What is the course's central lesson about lasting reconstruction?

No single institution can carry the whole burden of post-genocide recovery.

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