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If a person is aggrieved by a decision of the Government or a public anthority, the Rule of Law assures him of a right to seek redress in court. To what extent is this right guaranteed under the existing system, and after 1997? This will be the focus of this paper: The Rule of Law and Access to...
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According to popular wisdom, judicial independence and the rule of law are essential features of modern democracy. Drawing on the growing comparative literature on courts, we unpack this claim by focusing on two broad questions: How does the type of political regime affect judicial independence?...
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What is genocide? Can a State be held judicially accountable for its commission? What affirmative obligations do States have to prevent genocide? The International Court of Justice (ICJ) offered new answers to these perennial questions on February 26 when it held in the Application of the...
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"There is an extensive literature on violent conflicts such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but few papers examine the profiles of victims and perpetrators, or more broadly the micro-level dynamics of widespread violence. This paper studies the demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and...
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-levels – without synthesizing insights from different disciplines. The paper compares two post-genocide societies – Burundi and Rwanda …-up cooperation has been rather successful in promoting reconciliation in Rwanda. Transitional justice in turn plays an ambivalent … political environment is supportive of accountabilityseeking. Neither condition is entirely fulfilled in Rwanda or Burundi. …
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