Abstract

In the wake of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda’s government created the Gacaca courts to hold suspected perpetrators accountable. Although much has been written about these courts, researchers know comparatively less about the 250,000 individuals who served as Gacaca court judges (inyangamugayo). We draw upon 135 interviews to explore how the inyangamugayo entered and adapted to their new public roles as moral arbiters, how these judges understood Gacaca’s missions, and how their social identities evolved over the course of multiple status transitions. Building on Erving Goffman’s sequential approach to moral careers, we trace the process of becoming a judge. In doing so, we highlight the two overarching missions that surfaced during the interviews – justice and reconciliation – and how the judges continued to view themselves as inyangamugayo even after the courts closed.

中文翻译：

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“我们开始意识到我们是法官：在卢旺达的加卡卡法院当选莱学家的职业道德

摘要

1994年种族灭绝之后，卢旺达政府成立了加卡卡法院，追究犯罪嫌疑人的责任。尽管有关这些法院的文章很多，但研究人员对担任加卡卡法院法官（inyangamugayo）的25万个人的了解相对较少。我们利用135次访谈来探讨inyangamugayo如何进入并适应他们作为道德仲裁员的新公共角色，这些法官如何理解加卡卡的任务，以及他们的社会身份在多种身份转变过程中的演变。基于Erving Goffman对道德职业的循序渐进方法，我们追踪了成为法官的过程。在此过程中，我们重点介绍了采访中浮出水面的两个总体任务-正义与和解-以及即使法院关闭后，法官们仍如何继续将自己视为inyangamugayo。