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UN agencies could play a role in improving training programmes for peacekeepers who help women.
Reporters and editors in Rwanda saw themselves as unifiers, and that meant working to promote unity and reconciliation.
Interviews with Rwandan women from the military who had served on peacekeeping missions found many felt ill-equipped for what they had to deal with.
This spring marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and the 10th year since the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka. The world knows what happened in Rwanda. What about Sri Lanka?
Although still hugely popular in rural areas, we found that there is little or no support from the government to develop the local brew industry because it’s viewed as unhygienic and hard to tax.
Some entrepreneurship support models work better than others. Governance and structure is key to their success, or failure.
For democracy to work, the press has to be free.
Rwanda has overcome its past to become a development miracle but if it’s not careful, history could repeat itself.
East African countries use a scorecard to monitor maternal and child health progress in the region.
In Rwanda gorillas have been leaving protected areas to raid sodium rich crops.
Although many years have passed, the Rwandan genocide still has much to teach us about the centrality of media in cases of state violence.
In many African states power is concentrated in the executive branch. That’s why women’s representation in cabinet matters.
Refugee self-reliance is a laudable goal, yet self-reliance agendas must account for refugees’ individual circumstances.
Rwanda is a paradox – a ‘development miracle’ and an authoritarian state.
Research found that only a quarter of anaesthetists working in main referral hospitals in East Africa used the WHO safe surgical checklist.
The concept of ‘agaciro’ is central to how Rwanda engages with the international community and promotes its state interests.
The lengthy nature of some of Africa’s wars is one of the main hindrances to ending the “refugee cycle”.
With proper regulation, Lake Victoria’s fisheries could increase production without damaging wild stocks or the environment.
While refugees in Rwanda have the right to freedom of movement and work, in practice it’s difficult for them.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity
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Lecturer in Political Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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Reader in Politics, Governance and Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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