Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence

Contents

vii  Contents Maps of Rwanda x Preface xiii List of Abbreviations xix Alison Des Forges: Remembering a Human Rights Hero xxiii Kenneth Roth The Historian as Human Rights Activist xxvii David Newbury Introduction: Seeing Like a Post-Conflict State 3 Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf part i: governance and state building 1. Limitations to Political Reform: The Undemocratic Nature of Transition in Rwanda 25 Timothy Longman 2. Instrumentalizing Genocide: The RPF’s Campaign against “Genocide Ideology” 48 Lars Waldorf 3. The Ruler’s Drum and the People’s Shout: Accountability and Representation on Rwanda’s Hills 67 Bert Ingelaere 4. Building a Rwanda “Fit for Children” 79 Kirrily Pells 5. Beyond “You’re with Us or against Us”: Civil Society and Policymaking in Post-Genocide Rwanda 87 Paul Gready viii C o n t e n t s part ii: international and regional contexts 6. Aid Dependence and Policy Independence: Explaining the Rwandan Paradox 103 Eugenia Zorbas 7. Funding Fraud? Donors and Democracy in Rwanda 118 Rachel Hayman 8. Waging (Civil) War Abroad: Rwanda and the DRC 132 Filip Reyntjens 9. Bad Karma: Accountability for Rwandan Crimes in the Congo 152 Jason Stearns and Federico Borello part iii: justice 10. Victor’s Justice Revisited: Rwandan Patriotic Front Crimes and the Prosecutorial Endgame at the ICTR 173 Victor Peskin 11. The Uneasy Relationship between the ICTR and Gacaca 184 Don Webster 12. The Sovu Trials: The Impact of Genocide Justice on One Community 194 Max Rettig 13. “All Rwandans Are Afraid of Being Arrested One Day”: Prisoners Past, Present, and Future 210 Carina Tertsakian part iv: rural reengineering 14. High Modernism at the Ground Level: The Imidugudu Policy in Rwanda 223 Catharine Newbury 15. Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Economic Reconstruction: The Mismatch between Elite Ambitions and Rural Realities 240 An Ansoms 16. The Presidential Land Commission: Undermining Land Law Reform 252 Chris Huggins C o n t e n t s ix part v: history and memory 17. The Past Is Elsewhere: The Paradoxes of Proscribing Ethnicity in Post-Genocide Rwanda 269 Nigel Eltringham 18. Topographies of Remembering and Forgetting: The Transformation of Lieux de Mémoire in Rwanda 283 Jens Meierhenrich 19. Teaching History in Post-Genocide Rwanda 297 Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Harvey M. Weinstein, K. L. Murphy, and Timothy Longman 20. Young Rwandans’ Narratives of the Past (and Present) 316 Lyndsay McLean Hilker 21. Reeducation for Reconciliation: Participant Observations on Ingando 331 Susan Thomson part vi: concluding observations Justice and Human Rights for All Rwandans 343 Joseph Sebarenzi The Dancing Is Still the Same 354 Aloys Habimana Acknowledgments 357 Contributors 359 Index 363 ...