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The Blog

These are posts by students on the trip, part of their final class requirements.

Please note: Violence and sexual violence present in most posts

Lessons that Will Stay with Me

Lessons that Will Stay with Me

Professor Nancy D. Wadsworth
I hope to continue refining the class in coming years, but I know that the profundity and sense of emotional community that marked the first time with this remarkable group of students will be forever impressed on my memory.

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Tuyisenge Narcisse

Tuyisenge Narcisse

Austin Clapp
In Narcisse’s story, this truly seems to be what has caused him the most suffering: the feeling of having everything that was once his being ripped away with no ability to control the outcome.

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The Catholic Problem in the Rwandan Genocide

The Catholic Problem in the Rwandan Genocide

Tom Oexeman
As we learned, some of the deadliest massacre sites were Catholic Churches, most notably Ntarama and Nyamata, and partly because their priests abandoned their own parishioners or actively enabled genocidaires.

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Yahrzeit*

Yahrzeit*

Anne Pogoriler

There were many echoes of the Holocaust in our tour of Rwanda’s more recent trauma.

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