Conflict, Memory, and Reconciliation: Bridging past, present, and future
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
SIT Study Abroad and the SIT Graduate Institute, in partnership with the Center for Conflict Management at the National University of Rwanda, held an interdisciplinary symposium on Conflict, Memory, and Reconciliation: Bridging past, present, and future in Kigali, Rwanda, January 10-13, 2012 convening scholars and practitioners in the fields of memory, reconciliation, conflict transformation, peace and conflict studies, and human rights. View the schedule here
PROGRAM THEMES
- Teaching and learning memory
- Memorialization and commemoration
- Memory, healing, reconciliation, and peacebuilding
- Memory and amnesia
- Memory, policy, and politics
- Memory and the arts
- Memory, justice, and human rights
- Memory, narratives, histories, and identities
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Jelin, PhD, Senior Researcher, Argentine National Scientific & Technical Research Council
Anastase Shyaka, PhD, Executive Secretary, Rwanda Governance Advisory Council
SPONSORSHIP
SIT wishes to extend its deepest thanks to Susan and David Plimpton for their sponsorship of the Rwanda symposium through the Susan and David Plimpton Africa Innovation Fund. This sponsorship allowed participation by Rwandan nationals who otherwise would have otherwise been unable to attend and thereby broadened the impact of this important academic event.