{A visiting scholar will discuss the recovery of Rwanda in a talk March 2 at Missouri Western State University.}
The speech, entitled “Rwanda: Post-Conflict and Recovery,” is free and open to the public at noon in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101.
Dr. Gerise Herndon, Nebraska Wesleyan University, will discuss Rwanda’s post-genocide transformation. She will discuss the economic, social and political changes following the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Forgiveness and co-existence as an experiment in restorative justice will be highlighted, as well as changing attitudes about gender.
Dr. Herndon directs the gender studies program and teaches global studies at Nebraska Wesleyan. She first traveled to Rwanda in 2009.
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