Carla De Ycaza is a Ph.D. Candidate in International Human Rights Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, focusing on post-conflict transitional justice in Africa, and holds an M.A. in Human Rights Studies (Columbia University). She is a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University and is a lecturer in human rights and transitional justice at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. She also currently serves as Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law. Research and fieldwork in preparation of this article were conducted in the Kigali and Western Provinces of Rwanda in 2009-2010. Ms. De Ycaza has also worked with civil society organisations in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
