Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

They are accustomed to thinking that a government controls its citizens — that a film or documentary cannot be produced without government approval. The USIP has been doing some really interesting work looking at this issue around “ dangerous speech ,” stemming from incitement during the Rwanda genocide.

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MAY 21, 2008

JG: I had the opportunity to spend some time in Rwanda when I was in college, and what really struck me about that experience was the willingness and openness of the survivors, who are both victims and perpetrators, to heal their country and to move on. When I think rally, I picture a bunch of young kids with torn jeans, not grandmothers.

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MAY 13, 2009

You get her picture. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Well, I'm looking at the picture of one them, Honorata, who is one of my best teachers in this world and a hero for me. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life. You get her letters.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

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