United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Abstract

This book chapter, authored by Dr. Zachary D. Kaufman, was solicited and will be published by Cambridge University Press in the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, which is co-edited by Dr. Nadya Nedelsky and Dr. Lavinia Stan. The chapter describes the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s background, mission, organization, and activity and provides an assessment of this ad hoc court.

A previous version of this chapter was solicited and published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press in the first edition of the encyclopedia co-edited by Nedelsky and Stan. That chapter is available on SSRN at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2221525.

Keywords: Transitional Justice, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Belgium, France, New Zealand, Hutu, Tutsi, United Nations, UN Security Council, ICTR, Gacaca, ICTY, Human Rights, Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, Refugees, Kigali, Arusha, MICT, ICC