Justice for whom? A case study of Rwanda's transitional justice process and its abilities to create a gender-just peace
(2021) FKVK02 20211Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- In 1994 Rwanda experienced a genocide that took an estimated 800.000 lives in the course of 100 days. This essay takes the form of a case study that examines Rwanda’s transitional justice process that followed and its abilities to create a gender-just peace. The study is based on a theoretical framework that links a feminist reading of transitional justice and gender-just peace together with gender essentialism in war and peace. The analysis is based on statistical data in the time frame of fourteen years, looking at socio-economic development, security, participation and representation. This is done together with textual analysis of government documents where critical discourse analysis has been applied in order to examine the perceived... (More)
- In 1994 Rwanda experienced a genocide that took an estimated 800.000 lives in the course of 100 days. This essay takes the form of a case study that examines Rwanda’s transitional justice process that followed and its abilities to create a gender-just peace. The study is based on a theoretical framework that links a feminist reading of transitional justice and gender-just peace together with gender essentialism in war and peace. The analysis is based on statistical data in the time frame of fourteen years, looking at socio-economic development, security, participation and representation. This is done together with textual analysis of government documents where critical discourse analysis has been applied in order to examine the perceived role of women from keywords such as victimhood, motherhood and agency. What became clear was that the transitional justice process was influenced by gendered discourses that ultimately hindered the creation of a gender-just peace since it locked women in collective stereotypes that limited their agency. (Less)
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- Spindler, Fanny LU
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- course
- FKVK02 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- transitional justice, gender roles, gender-just peace, essentialism, Rwanda
- language
- English
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- 9046922
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abstract = {{In 1994 Rwanda experienced a genocide that took an estimated 800.000 lives in the course of 100 days. This essay takes the form of a case study that examines Rwanda’s transitional justice process that followed and its abilities to create a gender-just peace. The study is based on a theoretical framework that links a feminist reading of transitional justice and gender-just peace together with gender essentialism in war and peace. The analysis is based on statistical data in the time frame of fourteen years, looking at socio-economic development, security, participation and representation. This is done together with textual analysis of government documents where critical discourse analysis has been applied in order to examine the perceived role of women from keywords such as victimhood, motherhood and agency. What became clear was that the transitional justice process was influenced by gendered discourses that ultimately hindered the creation of a gender-just peace since it locked women in collective stereotypes that limited their agency.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Justice for whom? A case study of Rwanda's transitional justice process and its abilities to create a gender-just peace}},
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