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📘 Trust had to be rebuilt in a damaged society

In 1994, the genocide against the Tutsi destroyed lives, families, institutions, and the possibility of ordinary trust. Reconciliation therefore meant more than encouraging private forgiveness. Rwanda had to make it possible for people to l

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What you’ll learn

  1. Reconciliation began as a public reconstruction taskExplain why Rwanda treated reconciliation as an institutional part of post-genocide reconstruction.Unity and equal citizenship were framed as public responsibilities after the destruction of trust and institutions.
  2. Justice supplied truth as well as punishmentAssess how gacaca connected accountability, testimony, truth, and coexistence.Community courts addressed scale while creating encounters around responsibility and information about victims.
  3. Civic education and everyday reconciliationSynthesize how reconciliation is tested through institutions, relationships, participation, and time.A barometer approach treats repair as unfinished social work visible in daily safety, equality, and trust.

Questions this course answers

Why did reconciliation become an institutional project after 1994?

The course presents reconciliation as a continuing public task involving institutions, rights, education, and relationships.

What distinctive work did gacaca add to the justice process?

Gacaca handled a large caseload while seeking truth and community-level accountability alongside punishment.

What is the best test of reconciliation over time?

Reconciliation is ongoing social work visible in daily safety, equality, trust, and civic education.

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