Overarching Project Questions and Objectives

1) In what way is the atrocity narrated in the archival documents of Gacaca and ICTR?

Project Objective: To generate in-depth understanding of the atrocity

2) In what way are key-terms such as reconciliation, peace, healing and closure addressed and what is construed as truths and facts in the archival documents of Gacaca and ICTR?

Project Objective: To interrogate the underlying presumptions of legal transitional justice mechanisms.

3) What differences in the narratives and what different forms of truths and facts emerge in the local and the international legal archive?

Project Objective: comparison of international and localised legal mechanisms.