Forschungseinrichtung: Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)
Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Lothar Brock
Laufzeit: Januar 2003 – September 2005
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2009): We are Pretending Peace: Local Memory and the Absence of Social Transformation and Reconciliation in Rwanda’. In: After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond eds. Philip Clark and Zachary Kaufman New York: Columbia University Press, 153-171. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2008): Gewählte Amnesie. Die soziale Dimension von Erinnern und Vergessen nach dem Völkermord in Ruanda. Peripherie 109/110, 131-147. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2008): Gewählte Amnesie. Die soziale Dimension von Erinnern und Vergessen nach dem Völkermord in Ruanda. Peripherie 109/110, 131-147. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2008): Between Past and Future. An Assessment of the Transition from Conflict to Peace in Post-genocide Rwanda. Forschung DSF No. 15. Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2008): Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda. Remembering after Violence. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2007): Transitional Justice. Plattform für Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung.
Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2007): Wahrheitskommissionen. Das Enthüllen der Vergangenheit als Weg zum Frieden? In: Wort und Antwort Special Issue on ‚Wahrheit’ no. 4, 181-184.Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2007): The Gacaca Tribunals in Rwanda: Community Justice? In: Resümee der Tagung „Civil Society and Civilian Crisis Management: Enhancing Cooperation and Coherence by Multi Level Dialogues“ (Plattform für Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung, 2.-4. Februar 2007/Berlin).
Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2007): Frieden entwickeln? Eine kritische Analyse der Strategien der Internationalen Gebergemeinschaft zur Friedenskonsolidierung in Ruanda. In: Sicherheit und Frieden 25, 77-81. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2006): Remembering to Forget. Chosen Amnesia as a Strategy for Local Coexistence in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Africa – Journal of the International African Institute, 76 (2) 131-150. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2006): In-Between War and Peace. Identities, Boundaries and Change after Violent Conflict. In: Millennium Journal of International Studies 35 (1), 3-21. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2006): Dividing and Uniting. The Use of ‘Citizenship’ Discourses in Conflict and Reconciliation in Rwanda. In: Global Society, 20 (1), 101-113. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2006): Grief As A Resource For Politics, A Review of Judith Butler, Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London/New York: Verso, 2004). In: borderlands e-journal, 5 (3)Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, S.; Moltmann, B. (2006): Versöhnung: Balancieren zwischen Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit. in R. Muntz et. al. (eds.) Friedensgutachten 2006, Berlin: LIT, 136-145. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2005): Living in the Shadows. In: Index on Censorship, 2, 46-50. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susannel (2005): “The Truth Heals”? Gacaca Jurisdictions and the Consolidation of Peace in Rwanda. In: Die Friedens Warte 80 (1-2), 113-130. zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne: Ruanda: Sich erinnern – mit gemischten Gefühlen. In: Frankfurter Rundschau 12.04.04. Zur Publikation.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2003): Development assistance and conflict assessment methodology. In: Journal for Conflict, Security and Development (CSD) 3 (1), 119-127. Zur Publikation.
Between Past and Future focuses on the consolidation of the precarious peace in post-genocide Rwanda. Through analysing how former adversaries relate to each other today, prospects for the possibility of peaceful co-existence are being assessed and obstacles highlighted. In this context, the study also evaluates the intervention of third parties in the process of conflict resolution, extracting valuable lessons for peace-building and reconciliation.
Focusing on both Hutu and Tutsi constituencies, the project places particular emphasis on the language used when referring to former enemies, as well as when referring to the individual and collective past of the genocide. The subject of investigation is the Rwandan civil society, the ‘normal people’, who were both victims and perpetrators during the genocide as well as during the decades of violence leading to the event in 1994.
The study seeks to explore how a discourse of peace is ‘invented’ through a particular peace-building or reconciliation project. The field research considers the impact of two different agents of reconciliation, the Rwandan government and non-governmental movements, as well as an environment without reconciliation projects such as Internally Displaced People’s camps. Through comparing these different settings we hope to gain insights into how reconciliation is encouraged, or discouraged.
Methodologically, the project draws on theoretical approaches, which situate the construction, and deconstruction, of ‘enemies’ in language and discourse. Apart from practical insights into post-conflict reconstruction it, therefore, also attempts to contribute to post-positivist approaches to peace and conflict studies through developing a theoretical framework. The field research relies on participatory approaches and greatest efforts are undertaken to feed-back the findings to the Rwandan society.