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- Title
Truly Public Apologies: Third-Party Participation in Rwandan Apologetic Rhetoric.
- Authors
Towner, EmilB.
- Abstract
Rwanda offers one of the most unique and important cases for understanding the role of apologetic discourse in reconciling communities torn apart by violence and genocide. To help overcome the hatred that led to the 1994 Tutsi genocide, the Rwandan government instituted the gacaca court system, which calls for perpetrators to repent and apologize. This article provides a foundation for understanding apologetic exchanges in Rwanda's gacaca trials and broadens the current theories of apologetic rhetoric by describing the roles (and implications) of third-party participants in Rwandan apologies.
- Subjects
RWANDA; CONFLICT management; APOLOGIZING; GACACA justice system; SOCIAL interaction; DISPUTE resolution; SOCIOLOGY of genocide; RWANDAN Civil War, 1994; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 2010, Vol 11, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1745-9435
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/17459430903582228