Webinar
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 1:00-2:30PM EDT / 10:00-11:30AM PDT / 6:00-7:30PM BST & CMT / 7:00-8:30PM CAT & CEST / 8:00-9:30PM EET & IDT / 9:00-10:30PM GMT+4
This International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held in partnership with the Genocide Survivors Foundation in observance of the 100 days of commemoration and national mourning period (April 7 – July 4) of Kwibuka 30 – the thirtieth anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Rwandan authors – survivors and their children – will share challenges and lessons they have learned about teaching/transmitting their traumatic legacy in ways that would be preventive and reparative rather than traumatogenic.
Participants are encouraged to watch our two previous webinars in this series, which can be found at https://icmglt.org/webinars
Speakers:
Omar Ndizeye
Teaching in Africana and Latinx Studies at SUNY Oneonta, Ndizeye’s research focuses on genocide memorialization and cultural mourning in post-genocide Rwanda. Ndizeye is a board member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. In 2012 he initiated the Legal and Counseling Helpline to facilitate survivors’ mental health access. He authored Life and Death in Nyamata and created the Atlas of Genocide Against Tutsi Map on ArcGIS.
Henriette Mutegwaraba
Born in Butare Province, Rwandan survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi Mutegwaraba authored the memoir, By Any Means Necessary Healing and Forgiveness After Genocide. A board member of OneTribe, a non-profit peace building organization serving in East and Central Africa, she founded The Million Lives Genocide relief fund, where she ardently advocates for truth-based justice, atrocity prevention, PTSD awareness, and the healing potential of intentional unity and community restoration.
Claver Irakoze
A Genocide Survivor, Father, Husband, Researcher, Author (That Child Is Me; Transmitting Memories in Rwanda from a survivor parent to the next generation), Musician-songwriter, Founder of Umurage Parenting Centre (UPC), Irakoze endeavors to lead cultural and family education in Rwanda and beyond while confronting the legacy of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. His steadfast dedication to intentional parenting seeks to cultivate empathy, tolerance, and peace in current and future generations.
Akariza Laurette Annely
Born soon after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Akariza authored Wet Under the Rainbow and Rebounce that explores the profound impact of the genocide on the younger generation through personal accounts of the struggles and hopes of post-genocide youth as well as transgenerational resilience in Rwanda today. She is the commissioner of information, documentation and memory at AERG (Association d’eleve rescape du Genocide) and founder of Rise and Live Organization.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli
A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder and Executive Director of the International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
