Since the end of the Rwandan genocide the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation Reaching beyond the better studied topics of post conflict justice and memory the book investigates the project of civic education the upsurge of state led neo traditional institutions and activities and the use of camps and retreats shape the ideal Rwandan citizen Rwanda s ingando camps offer unique insights into the uses of dislocation and liminality in an attempt to anchor identities and desired political roles to practically orient and symbolically place individuals in the new Rwandan order and ultimately to create additional platforms for the reproduction of political power itself