Personal and Political Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Social Justice Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-106

  Kohen, Ari ^a   Zanchelli, Michael ^b   Drake, Levi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Apartheid; Forgiveness; Genocide; Human rights; Reconciliation; Restorative justice; Rwanda; South Africa; Transitional justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955473941     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-011-0126-7     Document Type: Article

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