BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Hague Humanity Hub - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Hague Humanity Hub X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.humanityhub.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Hague Humanity Hub REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190509T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190509T180000 DTSTAMP:20240329T100334 CREATED:20190425T132129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190425T132159Z UID:6787-1557414000-1557424800@www.humanityhub.net SUMMARY:Seminar: 25 years after the Rwandan Genocide DESCRIPTION:In less than a hundred days\, more than 800\,000 Rwandese people were murdered in a deliberate and well-organized act of genocide\, orchestrated by then-members of the Rwandan government.\nThe genocidal regime targeted the Tutsi population and moderate Hutu who opposed the killings. Many Hutu and Twa also lost their lives as the genocide unfolded in the context of a civil war between the Hutu-dominated government and a Tutsi-dominated rebel movement\, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). \nThe killings started on the 6th of April\, following a rocket attack that caused a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi to crash. Despite the presence of a considerable UN peacekeeping force at the outbreak of the violence\, the international community failed to intervene\, pulling most of their forces out and ignoring any pleas for help. This failure to act allowed the killings to continue until the 4th of July\, when Rwandan Patriotic Front forces\, then led by the current president Paul Kagame\, were able to take control of the country\, ousting those responsible for the genocide from the country. \nHow did the Rwandan Genocide come to be and why did it happen? Could it have been prevented if the international community had done more? If so\, how does humanity as a whole prevent such events from happening in the future? This seminar will address these questions. \nPlease note: this seminar will take place at the The Hague Campus\, Location Wijnhaven: Room 346 \nContact person: Daan Sanderse: d.sanderse.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl \nSpeakers\nBert Ingelaere\nFilip Reyntjens\nBoth speakers are affiliated to the Institute of Development Policy\, University of Antwerp. Read their biographies. \nDiscussant\nMargot Leegwater URL:https://www.humanityhub.net/calendar/seminar-25-years-after-the-rwandan-genocide/ LOCATION:Leiden University\, Campus The Hague\, Wijnhaven\, Turfmarkt 99\, Den Haag\, Netherlands ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://www.humanityhub.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bewerkt-never_again_-_with_display_of_skulls_of_victims_-_courtyard_of_genocide_memorial_church_-_karongi-kibuye_-_western_rwanda_-_02.gif ORGANIZER;CN="African Studies Centre%2C Leiden University":MAILTO:asc@ascleiden.nl END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR