When we Walk Out, What was it all About
Views on New Beginnings from within the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3885178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nigel Eltringham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 543-564 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12089 |
| OpenAlex | W1954851487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 19 |
The 1994 United Nations Security Council resolution which created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) foresaw it marking a 'new beginning', both locally (peace and reconciliation in Rwanda) and globally (strengthening the project of international criminal justice). Over time, those who spoke on behalf of the ICTR highlighted the strictly quantifiable (number of arrests, convictions) and the contributions to the global 'new beginning' for international criminal justice. Ethnographic fieldwork at the ICTR, however, revealed that lawyers and judges, enmeshed in the Tribunal's institutional order, held diverse views regarding local and global efficacy, refracted through the sense of power(lessness) that accompanied their respective institutional locations. Focusing on the attitude of judges and lawyers to the lack of indictments for members of the Rwandan Patriotic Army for alleged massacres in 1994 and accusations of 'victor's justice', this article distinguishes between the ICTR as a disembodied institution that did or did not mark local or global 'new beginnings', and the ICTR as a collection of situated persons negotiating their simultaneous empowerment and disempowerment
Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Empowerment · Institution · Negotiation · Political science · Power (physics) · Situated · Sociology · Tribunal · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
Fictions of Justice
International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans
Law as Process
Transition and Justice
Localizing transitional justice
On Transitional Justice Entrepreneurs and the Production of Victims
Local Memory Practices in East Timor
French Justice's Endeavours to Substitute for the ICTR
The ICTR Ten Years On
Should Approaches to Post-conflict Justice and Reconciliation be Determined Globally, Nationally or Locally
We are not a Truth Commission
Memory Frictions
Beyond Legalism
Perpetrators and victims
Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism
Anti-social anthropology? Objectivity, objection, and the ethnography of public policy and professional communities
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |