Critical Human Rights Series

Interdisciplinary in nature, Critical Human Rights publishes empirically grounded and theoretically innovative work. The series emphasizes research that opens new ways to conceptualize and examine human rights. Books in the Critical Human Rights series transcend simplified accounts of perpetrators and victims, resist triumphalist narratives, emphasize the importance of local perception, incorporate socioeconomic rights, and anticipate human rights problems of the future.

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Inside Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
Seeking Justice after Genocide
Bert Ingelaere

“This masterful study provides a balanced, nuanced assessment of Rwanda’s local courts, showing how diverse social dynamics influenced both the operations of gacaca and its outcomes in different local communities. Essential reading for anyone interested in transitional justice and conflict resolution, in Rwanda and beyond.”
—Catharine Newbury, Smith College

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Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling
Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina
Nancy J. Gates-Madsen

“Opens our ears to silences and their meanings. Gates-Madsen persuasively shows how the unsaid shapes memories of the traumatic past. An outstanding contribution to the study of human rights memory.”
—Rebecca J. Atencio, author of Memory’s Turn: Reckoning Dictatorship in Brazil

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Amending the Past
Europe’s Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History
Alexander Karn
Fall 2015

From War to Genocide
Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994
André Guichaoua
Translated by Don E. Webster
Foreword by Scott Straus
Fall 2015

Historical Justice and Memory
Edited by Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson
Spring 2015

The Social Origins of Human Rights
Protesting Political Violence in Colombia’s Oil Capital, 1919–2010
Luis van Isschot
Spring 2015

Memory’s Turn
Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil
Rebecca J. Atencio
Spring 2014

Archiving the Unspeakable
Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
Michelle Caswell
Spring 2014

The Human Rights Paradox
Universality and Its Discontents
Edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus
Spring 2014

Innocence and Victimhood
Gender, Nation, and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Elissa Helms
Fall 2013

How Difficult It Is to Be God
Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999
Carlos Iván Degregori, Edited and with an introduction by Steve J. Stern
Fall 2012

Torture and Impunity
The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2012

Remaking Rwanda
State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf
Spring 2011

Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
Molly Todd
Fall 2010

The Politics of Necessity
Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa
Elke Zuern
Fall 2010

Court of Remorse
Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Thierry Cruvellier
Spring 2010