Bernhard Schieber

Gacaca as Unchanged Customary Dialogue

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Post-genocide gacaca was a statutory criminal jurisdiction inspired by custom, not an unchanged dialogue practice. Its public participation operated within law, sentencing, and state authority. Preserve that history before drawing analogies with organizational meetings, mediation, or voluntary community consultation.

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In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.

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Organizes authority, representation, participation, deliberation, collective decision or institutional resolution of conflict. Its contribution concerns who may act, speak, decide or challenge, and under what arrangements.

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