About the trip | Rwanda in the Wake of Genocide

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Breakfast at hostel	SIM card errands, explore close to hostel.
Midday	TBA	Finish reading?
Afternoon/Eve	Students arrive.	Check-in. Group dinner near hostel.

Time	Activity/event	Details
Breakfast	TBA (downtown?)
10:45 AM	Arrive at Kigali Genocide Memorial (Gisozi) site and museum.	Before lunch: Watch welcome film and view all outside memorial spaces (note: avoid conversation to respect survivors and other guests’ experiences)
Lunch	At Gisozi museum café.
1-3:30 PM	Tour indoor museum.	This will be intense. Take your time. When finished, engage in silent journaling in the café or outside pavilion.
4-6 PM	Downtime	Rest, contact friends or family, hang out, or meet folks.
Dinner	Blueberry Hotel (Indian) or similar
Readings	Martha Minow, Breaking the Cycles of Hatred

Time	Activity/event	Details
Breakfast	Breakfast at hostel or local café. Group check-in and reading discussion; meet driver	Address tech, phone, other issues. Finish
9:30 – 11:30 AM	Kigali drive. Visit to Parliament Memorial.
Lunch	TBA
2:00 – 4:00 PM	Visit to Never Again Rwanda.	Peacebuilding Team Leader Florence Batoni will introduce to NAR’s programs and their Societal Healing Axis in the post-genocide Rwanda.
4-6 PM	Downtime: Student-proposed activity?
Dinner	TBA: Heaven Restaurant?
Readings	Jean Hatzfeld, Life Laid Bare, selections. (Nyamata & Ntarama stories)

Time	Activity/event	Details
Breakfast	Open option; let someone know where you’re going. Be done by 9:30.
10 AM	Drive to Nyamata (1 hr).
	Visit Nyamata Memorial.	Q&A with guide/host. Group debriefing and discussion following.
Noon (est.)	Lunch in Ntarama.
1 PM	Visit to Ntarama Memorial	Q&A with guide/host. Group debriefing and discussion following.
4 PM	Downtime	Good time to connect with loved ones, exercise, etc.
6:30 PM	Dinner TBA
Reading	Gregory Stanton, “Why Do People Commit Genocide and What Can We Do To Stop it” Jean-Damascene Gasanabo, “Dehumanization and Antidehumanization in Schools.”

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Open breakfast (student proposal?) Time for reading and catch-up.	Buddy system, etc.
11 AM	Group lunch TBA
1 PM	Visit to National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide with director Dr. Jean-Damascene GASANABO.	http://cnlg.gov.rw/home/
4 PM	Visit to Inema Arts Center,	KG 563 Street.
6 PM	Group dinner with Dr. Gasanabo. (Inzora Rooftop Café?)
Evening	Pack for next lodging.

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Breakfast TBA	SIM card errands, explore close to hostel.
Midday	Group lunch and open time	Options: Hike up to Mt. Kigali? Visit to Nyamirambo Women’s Center.
Afternoon	Check in at Yambi Hotsel.
Dinner	Group dinner TBA
Reading	[Readings on the Murambi memorial controversy, and role of French troops at Murambi. Possible reading: http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/rwanda/murambi.html ]

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Breakfast at hostel.
10 AM	Visit to The Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP) with Director Dr. Erik NDUSHABANDI.
Dinner	With Dr. Ndushabandi, site TBA
Evening	Visit to Niyo Cultural Center and Art Gallery.

Lush and green Kigali

Class at Kigali Genocide Memorial (Gisozi)

View of Kigali from the roof of the Parliament building

Class in session at Yambi Guesthouse

Ntarama Memorial names of the victims

Entrance to the Nyamata Memorial

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Breakfast and downtime at hostel.
11 – 3 Optional day trips	Took entire day trip to Akagera National Park
Dinner	Group dinner at Soleluna.
Evening	Visit to Niyo Cultural Center and Art Gallery.

Giraffes in Akagera National Park

Baboon Xing

Enormous hippo!

So much van time!

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Breakfast at hostel.
9 AM	Drive to Nyanza to visit pre-colonial King’s Palace history museum at Nyanza.	Tour and wandering
Lunch	At museum café.
Afternoon	Drive to Butare, to Hotel Maison Sifa
Evening	Group dinner at Hotel, followed by preparatory discussion
Reading	TBD reading on self-care or how to use journaling to process difficult emotion. Hatzfeld Murambi testimony?

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Breakfast at Hotel
9:00 AM	Visit to Centre Memorial du Genocide de Murambi	Quiet journaling on site. Group debriefing/discussion on site.
Lunch	TBA (Butare)
Dinner	Group dinner in Butare.

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Breakfast at Hotel	Check in
9:00 AM	Visit University of Rwanda	University genocide memorial and Department of Clinical Psychology).site.
Lunch	Butare with post-genocide awareness club leader
Afternoon	Return to Kigali
Check-in & chill	Relax, check in w/ loved ones	Five to Five Hotel
Reading	John Galtung, “After Violence, Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Restitution”

Visiting the King’s Palace at Nyanza

Sacred cows at Nyanza

Sunset in southwestern Rwandan countryside

Grounds of the Murambi Genocide Memorial Center

Talking with students at the University of Rwanda in Butare

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	Group breakfast at Kigali Café or Question Coffee, followed by reading time.
Reading	Article packet re: Rwanda’s reconciliation process. Karen Bronéus, “The Trauma of Truth Telling: Effects of Witnessing in the Rwanda Gacaca Courts on Psychological Health,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 54, No. 3, June 2010.
1:00 – 5:00 PM	Visit with The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) and drive to Reconciliation Village in Bugesera.	Discussion with staff about official reconciliation processes.
Dinner	TBA (Republik?)

Time	Activity/event	Details
Morning	TBA
Day	TBA Visit to coffee plantation? Kigali market for souvenirs?	Possible free time, return to museum archives, or meet with a local org.
Dinner	Group dinner TBA; some students leave for airport.

Visiting Narcisse’s parents in the village

The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) and Mayor of Bugasera

Listening to the stories of survivors and perpetrators in Bugasera Reconcilian Village

Last day in Kigali together