The New Times
Apr 22, 2018
100 Days, 100 Questions; Youth hold dialogue on genocide against Tutsi
Although the event was geared towards Rwandan youth born after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, it attracted a mixed crowd of young...
Samantha Lakin; Eric Ndushabandi | The
Apr 6, 2018
Rwandans discuss how best to commemorate genocide
Rwanda is commemorating the 24th anniversary of the 1994 Tutsi genocide. This claimed the lives of between 800,000 and one million Tutsis...
Foreign Affairs
Mar 7, 2018
Rwanda's Recovery: When Remembrance is Official Policy
When the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the rebel movement led by Paul Kagame, captured control of Rwanda and halted the genocide in July...
Foreign Affairs
Feb 14, 2018
Rewriting History in Eastern Europe
Last week, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a controversial law criminalizing statements that attribute responsibility for the...
The Atlantic
Dec 22, 2017
How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion
Those who went into exile have creatively adapted their rituals. Those who stayed have been just as innovative. By Cathy Otten BEHZANE,...
Jean de Dieu Basabose | Peace Insight
Dec 21, 2017
Coping with trans-generational trauma: a key feature of peacebuilding work in Rwanda
Within a 100-day span in the spring and summer of 1994 the Rwandan genocide claimed the lives of an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 Tutsis...
Geoffrey Johnston | The Whig
Dec 21, 2017
Genocide Survivors Celebrate Christmas in Iraq
When ISIS arose in 2014, the jihadist force swept across northern Iraq and carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign of Christian villages...
New York Times 1
Nov 23, 2017
Serbia’s Brand of Reconciliation: Embracing Old War Criminals
By Matthew Brunwasser A man holding a “Ratko Mladic Boulevard” placard during a gathering in Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday in support of...
Justice Mosaics
May 17, 2017
Justice Mosaics: New ICTJ Book Explores Importance of Context
What hope is there for justice for victims of atrocities in profoundly fractured societies, where systems of government have broken down...
BBC News
May 5, 2017
Living proof: Surviving a massacre
Some deny a genocide ever occurred in Srebrenica. One survivor continues to live there to provide testimony of what happened....
New York Times 1
Apr 26, 2017
How a Nation Reconciles After Genocide Killed Nearly a Million People
By Megan Specia MBYO, Rwanda — They awoke early and gathered along a plot of land here in this Rwandan village made up of a handful of...
New York Times 1
Apr 24, 2017
500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History
By Elisabetta Povoledo PALERMO, Sicily — Sicily’s Jews were banished from this island in 1492, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced...