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Dance troupe in Rwanda.

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ students experienced Rwandan culture as part of their study abroad experience. 

Survivors and perpetrators embracing at the reconciliation village

Students in Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹'s Kigali Summer Institute visited the Lycee Saint Marcel de Rukara reconciliation village in Rwanda to learn about forgiveness after the genocide against the Tutsi with both survivors and perpetrators.

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Flying velvet monkey and baby in Kigali, Rwanda.

A group from Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ visiting Rwanda for a university-sponsored global peace conference was treated to a show by local monkeys.

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ graduate student Camille Tinnin gives a presentation on peace through storytelling, on July 12 at Peace Education in an Era of Crisis, a global peace conference being sponsored by Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University, the University of Rwanda and the Aegis Trust.

A trio of Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University students took the lessons they learned on an education-abroad trip to Colombia last year and used them as a framework for promoting peace education practices at a global peace conference in Kigali, Rwanda. 

Molly Merryman presenting at a global peace conference in Rwanda

A host of Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University faculty and students took center stage at a global peace conference on July 12 in Kigali, Rwanda, sharing their knowledge and research with delegates from more than a dozen countries and as well as the U.S.

James Smith, keynote speaker of the peace conference in Rwanda

The founder of the Aegis Trust delivered the keynote address at the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹-sponsored global peace conference in Rwanda. 

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Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ students learning about peace and conflict in Kigali, Rwanda.

A peace education conference is bringing together peace and conflict experts, students and educators from Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹, Northeast Ohio and around the world.

Pacifique laying flowers at the Rwanda Genocide Memorial. Photo credit: Aegis Trust/Patrick Ndayishimiye

On July 10, Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ students visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial, which serves as a place of remembrance and education, during the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Kigali Summer Institute, a three-week education-abroad experience that includes the course Rwanda After the Genocide Against the Tutsi. 

Pacifique Niyonzima, far right, program manager of Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹'s Office of Education Abroad in Africa, based in Kigali, Rwanda, greets students taking part in the Kigali Summer Institute, upon their arrival in Rwanda on July 2, 2023..

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University graduate Pacifique Niyonzima, who as a child survived the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, is now back living in Rwanda leading Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s outreach efforts there.