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IN A FLASH SPECIAL: Let's Dance!

All this week, "In A Flash" will feature images from the ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ group's trip to Rwanda.

ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State educators and students visited a marketplace that sells goods made by marginalized women. Afterward, they watched a traditional dance troupe perform and were invited to dance with them. 

Students dancing with traditional dancers in Rwanda.

The visitors from ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State are in Rwanda attending  (held July 11-13), a global peace conference sponsored by ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the  and the , a non-profit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other global atrocities.

Dance troupe in Rwanda.

Bringing together peace and conflict experts and educators from around the world, the conference is another building block in ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State’s growing relationship with the University of Rwanda. In May 2022, ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State’s Board of Trustees approved ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State opening a base of operations at the University of Rwanda for creating collaborative educational exchanges and to serve as a base of operations for ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ State’s recruitment throughout Africa.

POSTED: Monday, July 17, 2023 09:51 AM
Updated: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 09:46 AM
WRITTEN BY:
Phil B. Soencksen