Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide in Rwanda

Jean-Damascène Gasanabo, Freddy Mutanguha and Aimable Mpayimana

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2016, vol. 3, issue 3, 329-345

Abstract: Rwanda’s efforts to develop educational curricula about the Genocide against Tutsi require it to not only grapple with history, but also to draw lessons from elsewhere, especially the Holocaust. Rwandan education, formal and informal, has developed with a new generation of learners to study the genocide. Drawing on lessons from the Holocaust and the Genocide against the Tutsi, educational programs, both in and out of school of it, are guiding learners through encounter with these historical events, helping them to think critically. These tactics combine to help create resilient communities with the capacity to understand genocide and its dynamics.

Keywords: Holocaust; Genocide against the Tutsi; Holocaust education; mass violence; genocide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/2347798916654583

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