Conversations around transitional justice often focus on concepts of victimhood and perpetration. Such has been the case in Rwanda in the decades following the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. However, even as Rwandans continue to observe state-led transitional justice reforms which divide them into victims and perpetrators, they simultaneously draw on state discourses of unity to carefully critique and re-work the language and practices which produce such divisions. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Berman illustrates how a new generation of Rwandan youth is transforming political ideology by creatively engaging the discourse of ubunyarwanda (Rwandanness) to forge inclusive post-genocide politics.

围绕过渡时期司法的对话通常集中在受害者和犯罪的概念上。1994 年针对图西族的种族灭绝事件之后的几十年里，卢旺达的情况就是如此。然而，尽管卢旺达人继续观察国家主导的过渡司法改革，将他们分为受害者和肇事者，但他们同时利用国家的团结话语来仔细批评和改造造成这种分裂的语言和做法。伯曼利用长期的民族志实地考察，展示了新一代卢旺达青年如何通过创造性地参与卢旺达（卢旺达性）话语来转变政治意识形态，以打造包容性的后种族灭绝政治。