My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511720352

My Neighbour, My Enemy tackles a crucial and highly topical issue - how do countries rebuild after ethnic cleansing and genocide? And what role do trials and tribunals play in social reconstruction and reconciliation. By talking with people in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and carrying out extensive surveys, the authors explore what people think about their past and the future. Their conclusions controversially suggest that international or local trials have little relevance to reconciliation. Communities understand justice far more broadly than it is defined by the international community and the relationship of trauma to a desire for trials is not clear-cut. The authors offer an ecological model of social reconstruction and conclude that coordinated multi-systemic strategies must be implemented if social repair is to occur. Finally, the authors suggest that while trials are essential to combat impunity and punish the guilty, their strengths and limitations must be acknowledged.

"Harvey Weinstein and Eric Stover's edited collection represents, to my knowledge, the first book-length effort to empirically assess the process of social reconstruction and reconciliation in several post-conflict societies, and to ask, what evidence is there for the claims made by international lawyers and others?...This book is essential reading for anyone involved in the emergent transitional justice "industry," as a caution against hubris and simple-minded therapeutic claims, and as a corrective to intoxicating beliefs in the power of international interventions in post-conflict societies." - Global Law Books, Hehal Buhta, NYU School of Law

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
pp vii-ix
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List of contributors
pp x-xii
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Foreword by Ariel Dorfman
pp xiii-xv
- By Ariel Dorfman
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Acknowledgments
pp xvi-xx
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Introduction: conflict, justice and reclamation
pp 1-26
- By Harvey M. Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and Clinical Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Eric Stover, Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Part I - Institutional approaches to justice
pp 27-28
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1 - A world unto itself? The application of international justice in the former Yugoslavia
pp 29-48
- By Laurel E. Fletcher, Acting Clinical Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law; Director of the Globalization Project of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Harvey M. Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and Clinical Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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2 - Legal responses to genocide in Rwanda
pp 49-68
- By Alison Des Forges, Consultant, Human Rights Watch, New York, USA, Timothy Longman, Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Vassar College; Research Fellow of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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3 - Localizing justice: gacaca courts in post-genocide Rwanda
pp 69-84
- By Urusaro Alice Karekezi, Director of Justice Projects for the Center for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda, Alphonse Nshimiyimana, Researcher with the Center for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda, Beth Mutamba, Researcher with the Center for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda
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4 - Exhumation of mass graves: balancing legal and humanitarian needs
pp 85-103
- By Eric Stover, Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Rachel Shigekane, Senior Program Officer, Human Rights Center; Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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5 - Witnesses and the promise of justice in The Hague
pp 104-120
- By Eric Stover, Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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6 - Reparations in the aftermath of repression and mass violence
pp 121-140
- By Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of Law
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Part II - Social reconstruction and justice
pp 141-142
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7 - Neighbors again? Intercommunity relations after ethnic cleansing
pp 143-161
- By Dinka Corkalo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Dean Ajdukovic, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Postgraduate Psychology Program, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Harvey M. Weinstein, Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Eric Stover, Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Dino Djipa, Research Director of Prism Research, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miklos Biro, Professor of Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
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8 - Memory, identity, and community in Rwanda
pp 162-182
- By Timothy Longman, Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Vassar College; Research Fellow of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Théonèste Rutagengwa, National Coordinator for the Center for Non-Violent Communication, Kigali, Rwanda
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9 - Attitudes toward justice and social reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia
pp 183-205
- By Miklos Biro, Professor of Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, Dean Ajdukovic, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Postgraduate Psychology Program, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Dinka Corkalo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Dino Djipa, Research Director of Prism Research, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Petar Milin, Assistant in the Department of Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro; Research Fellow, Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, Harvey M. Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and Clinical Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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10 - Connecting justice to human experience: attitudes toward accountability and reconciliation in Rwanda
pp 206-225
- By Timothy Longman, Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Vassar College; Research Fellow of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Phuong Pham, Assistant Professor, Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer at Tulane University; Research Fellow of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Harvey M. Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and Clinical Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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11 - Public education and social reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia
pp 226-247
- By Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Professor of Education and Research Fellow of the Human Rights Center, The University of California, Berkeley, USA, Dinka Corkalo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, The University of Zagreb, Croatia, Naomi Levy, Graduate student in the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Dino Abazovic, Member of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Director of the Center for Human Rights, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bronwyn Leebaw, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, USA, Dean Ajdukovic, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Postgraduate Psychology Program, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Dino Djipa, Research Director of Prism Research, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Harvey M. Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and Clinical Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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12 - Confronting the past in Rwandan schools
pp 248-266
- By Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Professor of Education and Research Fellow of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Déo Kambanda, Professor of Education, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda, Beth Lewis Samuelson, Graduate student in the School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Innocent Mugisha, Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Distance Learning Program, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda, Immaculée Mukashema, Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda, Evode Mukama, Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda, Jean Mutabaruka, Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda, Harvey M. Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and Clinical Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Timothy Longman, Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Vassar College; Research Fellow of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Part III - Survivors and justice
pp 267-268
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13 - Art out of the rubble
pp 269-286
- By Pamela Blotner, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts, University of San Francisco, USA
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14 - Trust and betrayal in war
pp 287-302
- By Dean Ajdukovic, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Postgraduate Psychology Program, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Dinka Corkalo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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15 - Empathy and rehumanization after mass violence
pp 303-322
- By Jodi Halpern, Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Harvey M. Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and Clinical Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Conclusion: a common objective, a universe of alternatives
pp 323-342
- By Eric Stover, Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Harvey M. Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and Clinical Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Index
pp 343-349
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