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Massachusetts Racial And Gender Profiling Final Report: Executive Summary, Amy Farrell, Jack Mcdevitt, Lisa Bailey, Carsten Andresen, Erica Pierce
Massachusetts Racial And Gender Profiling Final Report: Executive Summary, Amy Farrell, Jack Mcdevitt, Lisa Bailey, Carsten Andresen, Erica Pierce
Jack McDevitt
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Massachusetts Racial And Gender Profiling Final Report: Executive Summary, Amy Farrell, Jack Mcdevitt, Lisa Bailey, Carsten Andresen, Erica Pierce
Massachusetts Racial And Gender Profiling Final Report: Executive Summary, Amy Farrell, Jack Mcdevitt, Lisa Bailey, Carsten Andresen, Erica Pierce
Amy Farrell
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Too Many Questions, Too Few Answers: Reconciliation In Transitional Societies, Erin Daly, Jeremy Sarkin
Too Many Questions, Too Few Answers: Reconciliation In Transitional Societies, Erin Daly, Jeremy Sarkin
Erin Daly
Understanding reconciliation in times of political transition raises fundamental and ultimately unanswerable questions about the human condition. Talk of reconciliation invariably comes after there has been some gross violation of norms: widespread disappearances, killings, torture, and rape. Reconciliation necessarily conjures its antecedents and forces us to ask how men (and sometimes women) can visit such horrors upon one another. When we look at the face of evil, are we, as many people contend, seeing ourselves, or on the contrary are some people capable of evil in a way that others would never approach? Reconciliation is perhaps deeply compelling, however, because …
Between Punitive And Reconstructive Justice: The Gacaca Courts In Rwanda, Erin Daly
Between Punitive And Reconstructive Justice: The Gacaca Courts In Rwanda, Erin Daly
Erin Daly
In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which almost a million people were killed by their fellow citizens within 3 months, the country was faced with the colossal task of bringing to justice hundreds of thousands of perpetrators while at the same time trying to rebuild the communities in which both the victims and the perpetrators had lived. This article argues that the regime of gacaca courts, though flawed in many ways, particularly from a western perspective, does nonetheless offer the potential for helping the communities within Rwanda to transform themselves. The form and structure of gacaca …