The 2009 FHI Annual Distinguished Lecture by Homi Bhabha was recently featured in the Duke Research Blog.  As noted in the post, Prof. Bhabha argued that a "major factor in [the Rwandan] genocide is the apparatus of 'neighborly power,'whereby neighbors become enemies, and ordinary things become instruments of evil."  The very ordinariness of the neighbor made the violence of the mass killings all the more grotesque and excessive - yet, paradoxically, neighborly relations also hold the promise of redress and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda, through the community-based gacaca trials.

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