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Aegis Trust’s department of Research, Policy and Higher Education (RPHE) in collaboration with IRIBA Center held a knowledge exchange seminar on “Singing the struggle: The Rwanda Patriotic Front’s ideology through its songs of Liberation.” on Friday January 25, 2019 at IRIBA Center. Assumpta Mugiraneza who is the director and founder of IRIBA Centre and Dr.… Continue reading Singing the struggle: The Rwanda Patriotic Front’s ideology through its songs of Liberation

  The Aegis Trust through its Research, Policy and Higher Education programme hosted a research for policy seminar at the Kigali Genocide Memorial on Wednesday, 19 December 2018. The event was on policy-relevant findings in the working paper conducted by Dr. Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo, who recently authored a deeply researched paper on Identification and Critique of… Continue reading Citizenship education in post-genocide Rwanda: The case for a revised Itorero training scheme for high school leavers

The Research, Policy and Higher Education (RPHE) programme at the Aegis Trust invites you to a special event, “The Role of Social Science Research in Today’s Rwanda”, featuring two of Africa’s most prominent social scientists, Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (Professor and Research Chair for Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Dr. Godwin Murunga… Continue reading Keynote address

Scholars and practitioners from the UK and Rwanda have spoken warmly about the impact of the two-day conference which concluded at King’s College London on 31 May. Entitled ‘Rwandan Perspectives on Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Sustainable Peace: Enhancing Research, Influencing Policy’ and attended by more than 200 people, it was co-hosted by the Aegis Trust, the… Continue reading “A unique event”: London conference on Rwandan perspectives on post-conflict reconstruction and sustainable peace

Aegis Trust in conjunction with Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London and the Politics Department at SOAS will host an International Impact Event, entitled ‘Rwandan Perspectives on Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Sustainable Peace: Enhancing Research, Influencing Policy’. The event will be held on the 30th and 31st May 2018 at the King’s College London… Continue reading Rwandan Perspectives on Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Enhancing Research, Changing Policy

Aegis trust is proud to announce the selection of 8 research projects by Rwandan researchers, as a result of its 4th Call for research proposals. The research projects will be running from January to December 2018. Please find below a summary description of the research projects and short biographies of their authors.   Paper: Understanding… Continue reading Fourth Cohort of research projects by Rwandan researchers to be facilitated by Aegis trust with funds from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA): Summary of authors’ profiles and research projects

For its 4th Cohort of authors, Aegis Trust launched a call for proposals to Rwandan researches and received 55 research proposals from 70 applicants. This note offers an analysis of the proposals and candidates based on the information collected from their submitted research papers and curriculum vitae.  The first section will take a closer look… Continue reading Aegis’ 4th Cohort of Researchers – Candidates profile and proposals analysis

A community of researchers, educators, policy makers and practitioners from different corners of Rwanda gathered at Kigali Genocide Memorial for an official launch of the Genocide Research Hub, an online platform that aims to contribute to building a knowledge society around genocide prevention and peacebuilding policy and practice in Rwanda. Through a presentation of the… Continue reading Launch of the Genocide Research Hub

The King’s College London Digital Humanities Department and the Aegis Trust have brought together academic, private and public sector stakeholders from Rwanda and abroad to explore the implications, impact and transformative effects of digital archives and digitisation processes in understanding the genocide against the Tutsi and post-genocide reconstruction as well as supporting the country’s development.… Continue reading Memory in the digital age: King’s College London and the Aegis Trust hold conference in Rwanda

The Aegis Trust capacity-building workshop for Rwandan researchers has come to a close with participants committing to engage more critically with one another’s work. The workshop, which is part of Aegis’ Research, Policy and Higher Education programme, discussed the best approaches for conducting quality research as well as how to make their findings accessible to… Continue reading Rwandan researchers commit to take findings to policy makers and the public

On 12 April at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the British High Commission and Aegis Trust commemorated the Genocide against the Tutsi. The UK Government was represented by the British High Commissioner to Rwanda, William Gelling, the Head of DFID Rwanda, Sally Waples, and staff from the British High Commission and British Council. The Aegis Trust… Continue reading Rwanda genocide commemoration: British High Commission and Aegis Trust

Aegis Trust’s department for Research, Policy and Higher Education (RPHE) held a two-day capacity-building workshop to support Rwandan researchers to share their knowledge and experience with the world. Themed ‘Research Methodologies, Publication, Dissemination and Uptake’, the workshop was attended by researchers, academics, policy-makers and practitioners. It took place at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Peace School,… Continue reading Aegis Trust empowers Rwandan researchers to take lessons to the world