Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Ebru ÇOBAN ÖZTÜRK

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DOI:10.33458/uidergisi.463046

Anahtar Kelimeler:Rwanda,Social Reconciliation,The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,Completion Strategy

Özet: After the 1994 Rwandan genocide, solution and social reconciliation processes has started in this country. These processes are being conducted in terms of politics, economics, social psychology and law both in international and national levels. The most important and substantial contribution to the reconciliation process has taken place mainly from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The Tribunal was established as an ad hoc Tribunal but its contributions to the social reconciliation and international law is permanent. The Tribunal has completed its twenty first year for now and as an ad hoc tribunal, its mission is going to be terminated at the end of 2015 after completing its proceedings. The Tribunal’s mission was completed at December 31, 2015. The jurisdiction of the Tribunal and the ongoing cases will be assigned to national courts and to the newly established International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. This study presents the structure and completion strategy of the Tribunal and the contribution of it to the reconciliation processes of Rwanda. Then criticisms about the legal systems and social reconciliation are going to be discussed.

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