On September 12th, Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, where he paid tribute to the 250,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi laid to rest there. After laying a wreath at the mass graves, Bourla toured the memorial’s exhibits, which recount Rwanda’s history from pre-colonial [...]
In a deeply moving episode of the Aegis Trust's 'Peace at Risk in Bosnia' podcast, Aegis founder Dr James Smith speaks with two remarkable women working at the heart of memorialization and community rebuilding in post-genocide Srebrenica. Almasa Salihović, Director of Communications at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Centre, and Amra Begić, Deputy Director of the [...]
In a special video message, President Bill Clinton extended his warmest greetings to all participants in the peacebuilding conference hosted by the Aegis Trust in Kigali from 25th to 28th July 2024, ‘Listening and Leading: the Art and Science of Peace, Resilience and Transformational Justice’. Co-hosted by the University of Rwanda, Tufts University and Rwanda’s [...]
The 2024 Aegis Award has gone to three remarkable Central African faith leaders, Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Apostle Nicolas Guérékoyame-Gbangou and Imam Omar Kobine Layama (Imam Layama receives the award posthumously, having passed away in November 2020). The Aegis Award recognises humanitarian actions that went beyond the call of duty and attempted to save people threatened by war, persecution or genocide, intervening in exemplary [...]
Media stakeholders including journalists highlight their role in immediate efforts countering hate speech, urge policy support to address it (Kigali, Rwanda, 23-25 July 2024) Media stakeholders, including as journalists, editors, content creators, fact checkers, as well as watchdogs, can contribute to the dangerous spread and impact of hate speech, but also to addressing and countering [...]
In Kigali from 25th to 28th July, the Aegis Trust will host ‘Listening and Leading: the Art and Science of Peace, Resilience and Transformational Justice’. Registration for the conference is filling rapidly, but places are still available at event.aegistrust.org. The conference will be held at the Kigali Genocide Memorial (run by Aegis on behalf of Rwanda’s [...]
The Aegis Trust welcomes the adoption on 23 May of the UNGA resolution commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and declaring 11 July as the International Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. Adopted with 84 votes in favour, 19 against, and 68 abstentions, the resolution designates the 11th of July as the International Day [...]
In this comment piece, Aegis Trust Founder and Deputy Chair Dr James Smith reflects on ways in which the memory of the Genocide against the Tutsi is helping to build peace through the Kigali Genocide Memorial and beyond. On 7 April 2024 – the 30th anniversary of the start of Rwanda’s Genocide against the Tutsi [...]
For Kwibuka 30 - the 30th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi - the Aegis Trust worked in partnership with others to produce mobile exhibitions displayed at the UN headquarters in New York, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, at the EU foreign ministry in Brussels and at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. [...]
On 25 April, Aegis CEO Freddy Mutanguha spoke via video at the Kwibuka 30 event held in Vilnius, Lithuania, to commemorate 30 years since the Genocide against the Tutsi. Opening with thanks to the Rwandan Ambassador in Lithuania, the Head of Global Affairs at the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry and the DG of the Genocide and [...]
