Today only around 880 mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) inhabit the Afromontane forests shared by Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In this region, mountain gorillas serve as flagship species, attracting public support and international tourists as well as ...
Diplomats say it needs Cameroon's help in fighting Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which plagues the neighbors' common border up north. Britain and France have kept their distance, conscious of post-colonial rivalry pitting them against each other in African civil conflicts - as in Rwanda in...
I’ve known where to look for these kinds of opportunities to observe government, and participate in such, because of my background. And I’ve come to it with a trust in the people that staff government, public schools and media outlets, a trust that was long-cultivated. I’ve never th...
Lessons Learned in Preventing War and Conflict: The Case of Rwandadoi:10.2139/ssrn.1865176Africa and the world over have been victims of conflict which have devastated the political, social and economic fabric of many states. Some states today stillSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
in Rwanda I found a cautionary tale -- but there is a common thread that weaves through them all: a great and unquenchable conviction that we are defined by the relationships we have with others, that we live in community and more important, that we need that community if we are to surv...
The role of inclusive and exclusive victim consciousness in predicting intergroup attitudes: findings from Rwanda, Burundi, and DRC. Polit. Psychol. 36, 489–506 (2015). Article Google Scholar Vollhardt, J. The Social Psychology Of Collective Victimhood (Oxford Univ. Press, 2020). Demoulin, S...
The Rwanda-backed rebel group has since taken over eastern Congo’s second biggest city, too. Banks in Goma have been closed for months, and the economy has been stifled by the ongoing conflict. The centre, like many cultural institutions in Africa, relied heavily on grants and outside ...
Major ethnic conflicts from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are present in Rwanda, Chechnya, Iraq, Israel, and India. Examples of Ethnic Conflict There are several examples of ethnic conflicts arising due to factors (created or otherwise) that have affected the peace and ...
Cry for Freedom in Rwanda USC Center on Public Diplomacy Across the Aisle Two Months in Cote d'Ivoire Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding Insight on Conflict A Peace of Conflict Atlantic Review Aid Watchers Peace and Collaborative Development Network ...
Ending Ethnic Conflict and Creating Positive Peace in Rwanda and Sierra Leone Although peace and pacifism are familiar ideas to most students today, for much of human history these concepts have been relegated to the religious domain and excluded from the study and practice of politics....