Truth-Telling as Talking Cure? Insecurity and Retraumatization in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts

By Karen Brounéus. 2008

245 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. B. Rimé
2. Patrick Kanyangara
3. D. Páez
4. V. Yzerbyt
5. Carlos Martín-Beristaín
6. Karen Brounéus
7. Andrew F. Hayes
8. E. Wan

In Sociology and Political Science

1. B. Rimé
2. D. Páez
3. Patrick Kanyangara
4. V. Yzerbyt
5. Carlos Martín-Beristaín
6. Karen Brounéus

Citations in the corpus

• The Trauma of Truth Telling: Effects of Witnessing in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts on Psychological Health (2010, background): “Insecurity emerged as one of the most crucial issues at stake (Brounéus 2008).”
• The impact of Gacaca tribunals in Rwanda: Psychosocial effects of participation in a truth and reconciliation process after a genocide (2011, result): “These findings are in perfect agreement with clinical observations ( Daley , 1997 ; Hamber , 2001 ; Hayner , 2001 ) as well as with the rare pieces of empirical evidence about consequences of TRCs ( Brounéus , 2008 ; Byrne , 2004 ; Kaminer et al .”
• Psychosocial effects of participation in rituals of transitional justice: A collective-level analysis and review of the literature of the effects of TRCs and trials on human rights violations in Latin America (2010, result): “A large epidemiological study confirmed the negative effects of participation in local tribunals given the fact that the Gacaca participants reported higher traumatic and depression symptoms in comparison with the control group (Bronéus, 2008).”