Rwanda

The UN declared 7th April 2004 as the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. In 1994, over 900,000 Rwandans were killed during a 100-day period between April and July. The mayhem produced a massive refugee crisis and left almost 100,000 children orphaned.

Research Guide

• Murison, Jude. "FMO research guide: Rwanda" (January 2003)

Documents

Selected full-text documents (for more, search in the Digital Library)

• Action Aid, Understanding the Great Lakes crisis: an international conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, 30 November to 2 December 1996 (1996)
• Bunting, Ikeweba et al., Summary report from the International Workshop on Refugee Crisis in the Great Lakes Region August 1995, Arusha (1995)
• Connelly, Maureen, Refugees or hostages? (1997)
• Lautze, Sue, Strategic humanitarian coordination in the Great Lakes Region 1996-1997: An independent study for the inter agency standing committee (1998)
• Macrae, Joanna, ed., Special issue: Masking a policy vacuum: reviewing the lessons of international response to the Rwanda crisis, Disasters 20(4) (1996)
• Sangara, Aime B. Understanding the present conflict in Rwanda: a look at some key factors which contributed to the outbreak of the Genocide, (1994)

Web Resources

Selected web-based information resources (for more, search the FMO website)

• The international response to conflict and genocide: lessons from the Rwanda experience (Danida, Steering Committee for Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda)
• Prevent Genocide International
• Réseau documentaire international sur la région des Grands Lacs Africains (Réseau Grands Lacs Africains)
• Rwanda commemoration project: genocide in our time
• Rwanda genocide: Ten years on (BBC)
• Rwandan refugees in the UK (ICAR Signpost series)
• The Rwanda Genocide 10th Anniversary Memorial Project
• UN Memorial Conference on Rwanda Genocide

Relevant Organizations

Contact details for organizations based in Rwanda (for more, search in the Organizations Directory)

• African Union
• Collectif Pro-Femmes = Twese Hamwe
• Human rights Watch
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
• International Crisis Group
• Ligue des Droits de la personne dans la région des Grands Lacs (LDGL)
• Pole Institute, Institut interculturel dans la région des grands lacs
• UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA)