The University of Oxford symposium, “15 Years after Genocide: Where Now for Rwanda?” will take place in the Lecture Theatre, Social Sciences Building, Oxford, UK from 2pm to 6:30pm on 17 March and will be hosted by Oxford Transitional Justice Research, the Oxford Institute for Law, Ethics and Armed Conflict, and the European Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.

The event will commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide by recalling the events of 1994, the justice, security, governance and development responses to the genocide, and will ask what the future holds for Rwanda. The symposium will draw insights from law, politics, international relations, economics and history.

Speakers will include:

• H.E. Ambassador Claver Gatete (Rwandan Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s and Ireland)
• Prof. David Anderson (Director, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
• Brig. Gen. Frank Rusagara (Military Historian, Rwandan Defence Forces; Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute)
• Andrew Wallis (Researcher, University of Cambridge; author of Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France’s Role in the Rwandan Genocide)
• Dr. Phil Clark (Research Fellow in Courts and Public Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford)
• Jean-Baptiste Kayigamba (Rwandan genocide survivor and former Reuters journalist)
• Dr. Anna Schmidt (Research Fellow in Governance, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex)
• Dr. Devon Curtis (Lecturer in Politics, University of Cambridge)
• Bruno Versailles (European Commission Country Economist for Rwanda; DPhil candidate in Economics, University of Oxford)
• Zachary Kaufman (JD candidate, Yale Law School; DPhil candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford)
• Dr. Dominik Zaum (Lecturer in International Relations, University of Reading)
• Prof. Kalypso Nicolaidis (Director, European Studies Centre, University of Oxford)

The event will also serve as a launch of After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond, edited by Phil Clark and Zachary D. Kaufman and published by C. Hurst and Co. and Columbia University Press (2009). All profits from the sale of the book are being donated to the Kigali Public Library, Rwanda’s first public library.