With a cease-fire declared in Homs, Syria, displaced residents have started to return. Many of them were forced out as fighting intensified between the Syrian government and rebels two years ago, a common occurrence. Although all those were returning are displaced, are they refugees…

Reports came out last week that officials in South Sudan were using radio stations to broadcast hate speeches and encourage ethnic violence. This is eerily familiar to the beginnings of the genocide in Rwanda twenty years ago, and as such have drawn increased attention in the region and…

I don’t write as often as I’d like, but that is not for lack of topics. Ideally, I’d be able to constantly monitor the news and produce timely, relevant pieces as soon as a new situation arose — there are dozens of backgrounds I could write right now. But I have to balance the…

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. There has been a good amount of coverage of where Rwanda stands today, and how the country and population are reconciling, but as a follow-up to my recent post on genocide, I wanted to write about the…

Twenty years ago this month, a massive genocide began in a small East African country. While the world stood by hundreds of thousands of people were murdered, mostly with machetes and other crude weapons. I plan to write more about Rwanda, but first let’s dive into what “genocide” means.