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IN A FLASH SPECIAL: Let's Dance!

All this week, "In A Flash" will feature images from the 91²Ö¿â group's trip to Rwanda.

91²Ö¿â 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 91²Ö¿â are in Rwanda attending  (held July 11-13), a global peace conference sponsored by 91²Ö¿â’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, 91²Ö¿â’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 91²Ö¿â’s growing relationship with the University of Rwanda. In May 2022, 91²Ö¿â’s Board of Trustees approved 91²Ö¿â opening a base of operations at the University of Rwanda for creating collaborative educational exchanges and to serve as a base of operations for 91²Ö¿â’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