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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a presentation by Luc Reydams\, Professor\, Departm
 ent of Political Science\, University of Notre-Dame (Indiana\, USA)\; Fell
 ow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies\; Senior Fellow Leuven Ce
 ntre for Global Governance Studies\; and Professor of Law\, Catholic Unive
 rsity of Lublin (Poland).  This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwa
 nda genocide. Luc Reydams\, a political science Professor at the Universit
 y of Notre-Dame and a specialist of Sub-Saharan politics\, will discuss ho
 w the evolving relationship between Kigali and Washington contributed to c
 onsolidating victor’s justice in Rwanda and perpetuate seemingly endless w
 ar in the Great Lakes region. This workshop is open to all and will be fol
 lowed by a Q&A period.  Abstract  The International Criminal Tribunal for 
 Rwanda completed the trial phase of its mandate without prosecuting anyone
  from the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front. This article examines whethe
 r the ICTR was doomed from the start to be a court of ‘victor’s justice.’ 
 I explore the issue by re-examining the politics of its creation. Intervie
 ws with (former) US and UN ambassadors and hundreds of declassified diplom
 atic telegrams (‘cables’) and intelligence reports of the US Department of
  State shed new light on this process. My analysis concentrates on the str
 ategy of the RPF vis-à-vis the international community and the responses o
 f the United Nations and United States. I argue that understanding the evo
 lution of the relation between Washington and Kigali – from an early\, alm
 ost accidental support of the RPF to nearly unconditional backing – can he
 lp explain RPF impunity. I do not suggest that Washington planned to shiel
 d Kagame from international prosecution\, or that the US was the only Secu
 rity Council member to embrace him. However\, once Washington entered into
  a partnership with the ‘new’ Rwanda\, it was committed to moving forward 
 – and this implied burying the past and oftentimes also ignoring the prese
 nt. The result was victor’s justice in Arusha – and seemingly endless war 
 in neighboring Congo.  Sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in the Law o
 f Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and by the Centre for Human Rights and 
 Legal Pluralism.
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LOCATION:NCDH 609\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Let’s Be Friends: The United States\, Post-Genocide Rwanda\, and Vi
 ctor’s Justice in Arusha
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 d-states-post-genocide-rwanda-and-victor%E2%80%99s-justice-arusha-23895
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