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Sara E. Brown

Jan 27, 2014, 10:43 AM

Discover Rwanda Youth Hostel: A lesson in social entrepreneurism

Four years ago, I led a group of graduate students from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya on a two-week service and learning trip to Rwanda. The service and learning trip provided IDC students with the opportunity to participate...

Jan 13, 2014, 7:27 PM

The new age of Rwandan genocide commemoration

In 1994, over the course of some 100 days and under the cover of civil war, nearly 1,000,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were systematically hunted, tortured, raped, and murdered as part of an orchestrated genocide in Rwanda. Nearly two...

Nov 7, 2013, 12:15 AM

M23 Surrender does not Guarantee Peace for the DRC

This week, M-23, a feared rebel group operating in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, announced that they would lay down their arms in surrender. Following 20 months of fierce fighting, the displacement of tens...

About Me

Sara E. Brown is the Stern Family Fellow and the first comparative genocide doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Brown has worked and conducted research in the Great Lakes Region and East Africa since 2004. She is currently based in Kigali.