Managing Identity Question in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Engendering Nationhood in the Aftermath of Extermination - Luncheon keynote
Start Date
11-1-2012 11:30 AM
End Date
11-1-2012 1:30 PM
Description
Professor Shyaka Anastase is currently the Executive Secretary of Rwanda Governance Advisory Council (RGAC) and a leading expert on governance and political development on Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region. RGAC is an autonomous national institution responsible for promoting and monitoring good governance (through applied research and assessments, advisory services, policy dialogues, and civil society promotion) and seeks to help achieve vertical and horizontal accountability, sustainable development, and prosperity in Rwanda.
With vast research experience and wide academic recognition inside Rwanda and beyond, Professor Shyaka is a former Director of Center for Conflict Management ( CCM) at the National University f Rwanda (NUR) where he has led many studies and publications pertaining to peace and conflict analysis; democracy, governance and international relations in Rwanda and the Africa’s great lakes region and has initiated Masters programs; namely the MA in Genocide Studies and Prevention; and MA in Peace and Conflict transformation.
Professor Shyaka Anastase has been awarded by the US Department of State a 2007 Fulbright Award as Scholar In Residence at Georges Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia (USA), where he thought “Contemporary politics in Sub Saharan Africa”.
He was involved in a number of peace and political processes at national and regional levels, including national reconciliation and political debates, spearheading the Joint Governance Assessment (JGA) between the Government of Rwanda and her Development Partners, the joint UN – AU process that led to the signing of the Pact of Stability, Security and Development in the context of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
He is currently a member of a Team of Experts mandated by the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State to reflect on the feasibility of the East African Political Federation.
Managing Identity Question in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Engendering Nationhood in the Aftermath of Extermination - Luncheon keynote
Professor Shyaka Anastase is currently the Executive Secretary of Rwanda Governance Advisory Council (RGAC) and a leading expert on governance and political development on Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region. RGAC is an autonomous national institution responsible for promoting and monitoring good governance (through applied research and assessments, advisory services, policy dialogues, and civil society promotion) and seeks to help achieve vertical and horizontal accountability, sustainable development, and prosperity in Rwanda.
With vast research experience and wide academic recognition inside Rwanda and beyond, Professor Shyaka is a former Director of Center for Conflict Management ( CCM) at the National University f Rwanda (NUR) where he has led many studies and publications pertaining to peace and conflict analysis; democracy, governance and international relations in Rwanda and the Africa’s great lakes region and has initiated Masters programs; namely the MA in Genocide Studies and Prevention; and MA in Peace and Conflict transformation.
Professor Shyaka Anastase has been awarded by the US Department of State a 2007 Fulbright Award as Scholar In Residence at Georges Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia (USA), where he thought “Contemporary politics in Sub Saharan Africa”.
He was involved in a number of peace and political processes at national and regional levels, including national reconciliation and political debates, spearheading the Joint Governance Assessment (JGA) between the Government of Rwanda and her Development Partners, the joint UN – AU process that led to the signing of the Pact of Stability, Security and Development in the context of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
He is currently a member of a Team of Experts mandated by the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State to reflect on the feasibility of the East African Political Federation.