Lisa Rogoff » justice http://advocacynet.org/wordpress-mu/lrogoff Survivor Corps in Rwanda Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:42:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 One Man’s Word http://advocacynet.org/wordpress-mu/lrogoff/blog/2009/08/03/one-mans-word/ http://advocacynet.org/wordpress-mu/lrogoff/blog/2009/08/03/one-mans-word/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:53:10 +0000 Lisa Rogoff http://advocacynet.org/wordpress-mu/lrogoff/?p=230 Check out this interesting article about Benoit Kabayiza, a Rwandan man, accused of genocide, living in the U.S.  The story highlights many of the controversial issues behind gacaca and justice today in Rwanda.  I’m pretty sure I don’t have the answers, and there seems to be little concensus here about what to do in cases like Benoit’s.

H/T: Katelin

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“Justice, which is the end of law, is the ideal compromise between the activities of each and of the activities of all in a crowded world. The law seeks to harmonize these activities and to adjust the relations of every man with his fellows so as to accord with the moral sense of community. When the community is at one of its ideas of justice, this is possible. When the community is divided and diversified, and groups and classes and interests, understanding each other none too well, have conflicting ideas of justice, the task is extremely difficult”

-Roscoe Pound, 1906

(interesting in the context of gacaca)

H/T: Neddie Madeira

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