Thirty Years Out of Genocide: Lessons on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building in Rwanda
When & Where
Date & Time
Location
ILR School
105 Ives Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States
Overview
"Thirty Years Out of Genocide: Lessons on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building in Rwanda” is the title of the March 13 talk by Freddy Mutanguha, CEO of a non-governmental organization working to prevent genocide and mass atrocities through peace and humanity education, research and advocacy. He is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide that killed his parents, four of his five sisters, about 80 members of his extended family and hundreds of thousands of others.
The Konvitz Lecture is made possible through the generosity of Irwin Jacobs (BEE ’56) and Joan Jacobs (BS HE ’54).
Honored Speaker
Freddy Mutanguha
CEO of the Aegis Trust and Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial
AGENDA
Introduction
Alex Colvin, Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean, Martin F. Scheinman ’75, MS ’76, Professor of Conflict Resolution, ILR School
Keynote Presentation
Freddy Mutanguha, CEO of the Aegis Trust and Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial
Question and answer session
About Milton Konvitz
Milton Konvitz was a founding faculty member in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and taught from 1946 until his retirement in 1973. He was also a professor in Cornell's Law School and was widely considered an authority on constitutional and labor law, and civil and human rights. Konvitz is perhaps best known for his American Ideals course, which he taught to more than 8,000 Cornell students over the course of his career, never giving the same lecture twice. "I saw the U.S. Constitution as it has been interpreted as a magnificent depository of our ideals, both individual and social," he said. His course exposed students to the great intellectual thinkers and philosophers throughout history whose writings had shaped those ideals. One student he influenced was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cornell Class of 1954, who considered him a mentor – some of their later correspondence is in our library’s archives.