• Sub-Saharan Africa
    Dr. Denis Mukwege: A Surgeon in the “Rape Capital of the World”
    This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been back in the media over the…
  • Rwanda
    TWE Remembers: Juvenal Habyarimana’s Plane Crashes and the Rwandan Genocide Begins
    Planes crashes have killed a regrettable number of world leaders. Legendary UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld died in 1960 in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in mysterious circumstances while on …
  • Rwanda
    A Conversation with Paul Kagame
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  • Rwanda
    A Conversation with Paul Kagame
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    Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, discusses Rwanda's domestic and foreign policies, as well as the dire need for a stronger energy infrastructure.
  • Rwanda
    Preventing Mass Atrocities
    In 2005, the members of the United Nations embraced the idea of a “responsibility to protect” populations from genocide and other mass atrocities. Join us as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour discusses the role her office plays in helping states and the international community fulfill this responsibility. Having recently returned from a visit to Burundi, the Democratic RepublicofCongo, and Rwanda, she will talk about her office’s fieldwork there, as well as share her thoughts on the work of the UN Human Rights Council. **Please note special time and location.**11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Reception11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Meeting
  • Rwanda
    HUMANITARIAN: A Decade After Rwanda
    This publication is now archived. What lessons have been learned since the Rwanda genocide?Most experts agree that the slow and reluctant international reaction to the violent upheaval in Rwanda 10 y…
  • International Law
    The Key to My Neighbor's House
    Examining competing notions of justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning Boston Globe correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer convinces readers that crimes against humanity cannot be resolved by talk of fo…