This has been a very exciting few months! Here are a few updates.

• I published two Op-Ed articles, one about Israel and East Africa, and another about gender and genocide
• Meeting Maggy Barankitse, founder of Maison Shalom in Burundi and Aurora Prize Laureate
• Gave a TALK@Google in the Google Cambridge office, “From Genocide to Dignity and Justice”

World Policy Institute Blog, July 22, 2016

September 17-19 The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) hosted a three-day international conference “After Genocide: From Trauma to Rebirth, a Gendered Perspective” at AGBU Armenia Hall in Yerevan. I contributed an Op-Ed about gender and genocide.

I also met Maggy Barankitse, founder of Maison Shalom in Burundi, and Aurora Prize Laureate, who was awarded $1.1 million last April for her humanitarian work.

Thanks to Google Cambridge for inviting me to give a Talk@Google at the Google office on September 20, 2016! Stay tuned for the YouTube video coming soon.

Hi Friends! I wanted to share some links to videos of my prior presentations, including from TEDXFulbrightSantaMonica, the Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia at Montgomery College, Queensborough Community College, University of Rwanda School of Law, and others. Enjoy!

 

Where is the Hope for Burundi?

About a month before returning to Rwanda, I was contacted by members of the Burundian diaspora community in NYC and Washington, DC, who were very concerned about the atrocities taking place in Burundi. With the hashtag #BurundiCrisis and #Burundi1YearofCrimes trending, I was also concerned about the increasing deadly violence in Burundi, closely linked to the country of Rwanda, which I care about so much. Upon returning to Rwanda in mid-May, I realized that the Burundian community in Kigali also needed help and representation, and so I wrote the following policy article on the commemoration of one year of preventable atrocities in Burundi. Thanks to Andrew Mwenda and The Independent Magazine in Uganda and Rwanda for publishing it. Please read, share, and reflect. I hope to write an update to this article soon, now that the peace negotiations in Arusha have begun and will continue.

 

Amahoro to all.