When talking about the origin of the ethnic conflict in eastern DR Congo – in the Kivus – many people fail to understand that it is a project born in Brussels. Most people don't realize, as Tom ...

There are many ways to illustrate the lingering grip of colonial arrogance, but few are as undiluted, and as unmistakably absurd as the behaviour of certain European academics who still imagine that ...

What if a genocide like the ones in Rwanda or in Srebrenica were to happen today? Would the global response be any different?

The town of Uvira in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been paralysed since early September by intensifying clashes between the Congolese army (FARDC) and the Wazalendo militia.

Mothers often struggled with feelings of ambivalence and guilt, while many of their children displayed compassion toward them, researchers found A study led by McGill University researchers offers ...

Historians are in the storytelling trade. It’s time we told a better narrative about the relevance of our discipline. Our graduates see that firsthand. An alum of my department, who earned a ...

A man who directed rapes and murders during the 1994 Rwanda genocide lied to U.S. immigration officials about his role in the 100-day massacre and started a new life as a Long Island beekeeper, ...

The Africa Alliance partnered with the Rwandese Community Association of Maine and Ibuka Maine, a community of genocide survivors, to put together the daylong observance. April 7 was the International ...

Rwanda's High Commissioner to Kenya Martin Ngoga and other government officials during the 31st commemoration of the Rwanda genocide. [File Courtesy] The United Nations now says the 1994 genocide ...

Late in the new movie The Report, Adam Driver’s Dan Jones argues with his prospective defense attorney over who really said, “History is written by the victors.” The lawyer (played by Corey Stoll) ...