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SUMMARY:Book Launch: “Transforming Rwanda: Challenges on the Road to Rec
 onstruction”  - Dr Jean-Paul Kimonyo
DTSTART:20191023T110000Z
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSince the end of its genocidal civil war in 1994\, Rwanda 
 has embarked on an ambitious\, and often controversial\, process of recons
 truction. Following the exile of the 1959 Rwandan refugees\, Kimonyo’s b
 ook offers an historical account of the formation and evolution of the RPF
  and comprehensively analyzes Rwanda’s post-genocide reconstruction proc
 ess in the political\, military\, socioeconomic\, and cultural arenas.\n\n
 Kimonyo combines the objectivity of a scholar with the front-row perspecti
 ve of a participant to provide an unparalleled analysis of the ups and dow
 ns of Rwanda's transformation. Drawing extensively on primary sources\, he
  traces and analyzes the states of reconstruction as they have continued t
 o unfold since the election of Paul Kagame to the presidency.\n\nJean-Paul
  Kimonyo’s bio\n\nDr. Jean-Paul Kimonyo works in the Office of the presi
 dent of Rwanda as a senior advisor and Rwanda’s focal point for the New 
 Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the African Peer Review M
 echanism (APRM). Before he was the head of the Strategy Policy Unit in the
  same office. He is the co-founder of the Centre for Conflict Management a
 t the National University of Rwanda and was its first director.\n\nKimonyo
  worked extensively as a post-conflict international consultant mostly for
  UNDP in Rwanda\, Côte d’Ivoire and Burundi (lead writer for the Burund
 i National Human Development Report 2005 (UNDP) on “Consolidation of pea
 ce in Burundi”).\n\nHis doctoral dissertation on mass participation in t
 he 1994 genocide in Rwanda was published in English: “Rwanda’s Popular
  Genocide: A Perfect Storm” (Lynne Rienner Publishers\, 2016). Kimonyo h
 olds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Quebec in Montrea
 l. His book “Transforming Rwanda” was first published in French in 201
 7 and will be translated in Chinese in 2020.\n\nComments on the book:\n\n
 “I strongly recommend Jean-Paul Kimonyo’s book\, it offers a very usef
 ul insight to the RPF genesis\, ideology construction\, why it acted and r
 eacted in the way it did. Allows for better understanding of contempory Rw
 anda.” (Prof. Filip Reyntjens\, Twitter\, 16 June 2019)\n\n“Jean-Paul 
 Kimonyo's book allows us to come back to the reality of a country and a pe
 ople that deserve understanding and consideration.”(Jean-François Dupaq
 uier\, Afrikarabia\, Nov. 2007) ) http://afrikarabia.com/wordpress/un-livr
 e-pour-comprendre-la-gouvernance-du-rwanda/\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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