Never Again Rwanda has five departments that include; Peacebuilding, Governance, Human rights, Economic empowerment and Research and advocacy. However research is the backbone of most of NAR’s activities. Odeth Kantengwa from the research department spoke Peace Insight’s Sonia Tona about…
Peace beyond the Borders The recent history of the Great Lakes region holds many instances of violent conflicts that left behind wholesale effects. Most of those conflicts originate from individual countries before spreading across the borders. The genocide committed against…
While it’s a known fact that peace is the mother of all constructive inventions, its attainment is still a necessity even where there is seemingly some semblance of peace. This is mainly because attaining peace avoids conflicts from escalating which…
Briefly tell us about Peace Building Institute (PBI)?The Peacebuilding Institute is a two weeks bi-annual program that is conducted in two phases, June for international participants and in December/January for regional. It targets Rwandan, regional and international university students as…
Rwanda’s horrific past, her recovery process and cross-cultural exchange is the main focus of the Peacebuilding Institute under the theme “what can Rwanda teach the world”. During the 1994 genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis youth were manipulated into committing crimes…
On December 12th 2016, Never Again Rwanda (NAR) joined the world in commemorating the International Human Rights Day and on this day it was noted how the government of Rwanda has made strides in the promotion and protection of Human…
On June 29th 2016, Never Again Rwanda gathered 20 young writers, in Kigali, to have a discussion on ‘The role that citizen journalism can play in protecting and promoting human rights’. The youth talked about how to use different platforms…
Never Again Rwanda has recognized the fact that citizens are yearning for a platform to air their views, and has responded by establishing 10 Citizen Forums in 10 districts of the country. When you compare many post conflict developing countries,…
Welcome to our new issue of PeaceInsight Peace is a bigger concept than the lack of war and violence. Peace can be a combination of bodily and family peace. It can also be a combination of local and national peace.…
‘Societal healing’ transforming community members into peace agents When some Genocide perpetrators committed themselves to asking for forgiveness, they didn’t know that the gesture would give them a more positive feeling towards humanity. When some survivors committed to unity they…