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Â鶹ӰԺ State visitors meet at the Rwandan Ministry.

Â鶹ӰԺ State's visitors to Rwanda had opportunities to speak with officials dedicated to the country's peaceful future. 

Â鶹ӰԺ State students check out the Kigali skyline

Over the past several weeks, Â鶹ӰԺ faculty and staff, along with a select group of students, have traveled to Kigali, Rwanda, taking part in a host of educational programs and cultural exchange.

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Dance troupe in Rwanda.

Â鶹ӰԺ State students experienced Rwandan culture as part of their study abroad experience. 

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Flying velvet monkey and baby in Kigali, Rwanda.

A group from Â鶹ӰԺ State visiting Rwanda for a university-sponsored global peace conference was treated to a show by local monkeys.

James Smith, keynote speaker of the peace conference in Rwanda

The founder of the Aegis Trust delivered the keynote address at the Â鶹ӰԺ State-sponsored global peace conference in Rwanda. 

Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, gives a welcome address to open Peace Education in an Era of Crisis, a global peace conference in Kigali, Rwanda, sponsored by Â鶹ӰԺ, the University of Rwanda, and the Aegis Trust.

Peace Education in an Era of Crisis, a global peace conference dedicated to promoting peace through education, opened Tuesday, July 11, in Kigali, Rwanda, with delegates from throughout the United States and 14 countries participating. 

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Â鶹ӰԺ State students learning about peace and conflict in Kigali, Rwanda.

A peace education conference is bringing together peace and conflict experts, students and educators from Â鶹ӰԺ State, Northeast Ohio and around the world.

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

On July 10, Â鶹ӰԺ State students visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial, which serves as a place of remembrance and education, during the Â鶹ӰԺ State 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 Â鶹ӰԺ State'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..

Â鶹ӰԺ graduate Pacifique Niyonzima, who as a child survived the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, is now back living in Rwanda leading Â鶹ӰԺ State’s outreach efforts there.