Conclusion
This chapter has discussed gacaca's pursuit of three pragmatic aims after the genocide - processing the backlog of genocide cases, improving livÂing conditions in the prisons and fostering economic development - which some official, popular and critical sources argue should be viewed as objectives of gacaca.
Gacaca has, to some extent, contributed to the first two objectives but displayed little potential for facilitating the third. As we will see in the following chapters, gacaca's hybrid objectives after the genocide - combining the pragmatic objectives explored here and a range of more profound objectives concerning social and cultural reconÂstruction - underscore the complexity and dynamism of the institution. However, the hybridity of gacaca's aims has also, in practice, often left it overstretched and incapable of fulfilling many of the population's expectations.