Memory and politics are inherently intertwined and can never be fully separated in post-atrocity and post-genocidal contexts. They are also dynamic and ever-changing. The interplay between memory and ...

Sitting beside her neighbor Karenzi Nasson, Margaret Murekatete is relaxed, laughing, in Rukara, eastern Rwanda. But it wasn't always this way. "When I saw his face before, I felt like screaming and ...

Samantha Lakin, PhD, is a specialist in comparative genocide and a Senior Fellow at The Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD) at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where she also ...

(Nairobi, 13 April 2026). More than 700 people including a genocide survivor, members of the Diplomatic Corps, Government officials, the Rwanda diaspora in Kenya, students and UN staff met on the 7th ...

A New York man told federal agents, “I know I’m finished,” when he was arrested Thursday on charges that he concealed his leadership role in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 in his applications for a ...

Thirty-two years ago, a genocidal campaign was unleashed against Rwanda’s Tutsi people, resulting in more than million deaths. On Tuesday, the UN is holding commemorations to ensure that the genocide ...

Faustin Nsabumukunzi lived quietly in New York. In his home country, prosecutors say, he helped author one of the 20th century’s bloodiest episodes. By Santul Nerkar After fleeing unspeakable ...

Timothy Longman’s review essay in Political Science Quarterly provides fresh insights into the nature of authoritarian rule, challenging common perceptions of such regimes as inherently stable. The ...

The University of Rwanda has launched the Centre for Genocide and Conflict Studies (CGCS), a major step in strengthening the country’s capacity for research, education, and policy engagement on ...

There is no formal procedure for genocide determinations. Previous secretaries of state have announced findings of genocide in at least six other situations: Bosnia (1993), Rwanda (1994), Iraq (1995), ...

The United Nations General Assembly is holding a plenary session on Monday to discuss nations’ responsibility to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. But the ...