Kenya’s champion athletes to walk 500 miles for peace
Kenya’s North Rift Valley is being torn apart by growing armed violence between different ethnic groups, often centred around cattle rustling. In the past 18 [...]
How South Sudanese peace-builders are finding inspiration in Rwanda
Since December 2013, South Sudan’s civil war has left 50,000 people dead and driven 1.5 million from their homes – so far with little sign [...]
Former UN Sudan chief urges South African arrest of Bashir
With Sudanese President Omar Bashir prevented from leaving South Africa pending a judicial decision on his possible arrest and handover to the International Criminal Court [...]
Aegis launches new state of the art online archive
The Aegis Trust has launched a new and expanded online Genocide Archive of Rwanda with over 8,000 historical photos, videos, documents, audio files and artefacts. [...]
New site for Genocide Archive of Rwanda launched on International Archives Day
The Aegis Trust and its partners have today launched a new online platform for the Genocide Archive of Rwanda at www.genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw, coinciding with International Archives Day. [...]
Aegis shares lessons of hope from Rwanda as Central Africans seek peace
Held in the Central African Republic’s capital, 4-11 May, the ‘Bangui Forum for National Reconciliation’ drew around 700 leaders from across the political, religious and [...]
Rwanda Peace Education Programme launched in Kirehe
Rwanda Peace Education Programme (RPEP) partners, local authorities and communities gathered today to launch the peace building programme in Kirehe district in the Eastern Province, [...]
Aegis informs Rwandan training of teacher trainers in peace education
Rwanda’s Ministry of Education last week commenced training its teacher trainers in delivery of the peace education component of the new national Schools Curriculum. The [...]
Call for applications for the Aegis Trust’s Rwanda Short Course
Aegis Trust’s Research, Policy and Higher Education (RPHE) Department invites academics, teachers, trainers, policymakers and practitioners to apply for a short course on “Genocide and [...]