After Genocide

Transitional justice is now firmly entrenched as a bona fide field of enquiry in its own right. Yet there is still typically more attention paid, and academic prestige attached, to the study of acts of violence, including wars and genocide, over the study of what happens afterward. Both books under review are edited volumes dealing with postgenocide contexts. For this reason, I was keen to read them. Phil Clark and Zachary Kaufman's volume takes Rwanda as its central case study, while Alexander Hinton and Kevin O’Neill ask their contributors to explore seven case studies spanning Latin America, Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia. However, as this review will detail, both volumes are often problematic reads. The breadth of topics covered in the Clark and Kaufman book is amenable to a broad audience that may not know much about Rwanda. Part I provides background and includes, for example, a chapter by Linda

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