Leon Saur
Ph.D. Candidate at the Sorbonne, Paris, France
Historian
Junior Lecturer at Paris | Pantheon-Sorbonne
Associate of the "Centre d'études des Crises et des Conflits_Internationaux" (CECRI) at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)

Leon Saur served as Secretary General in charge of the International Relations of the Belgian Social-Christian Party between 1989 and 1995. He followed the tragic events of the Rwandan genocide and, on his request, testified before the Senatorial Commission of the the Belgian Parliamentary Inquiry concerning the genocide.

He has published several texts on the role that the Christian-Democrat International and, in particular, Belgian Catholic circles played in Rwanda. He is currently completing a doctoral dissertation in History at Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne on the role of the Belgian Catholic community in Rwanda and its influence on the project of the Church for Rwanda.

Select List of Publications
  • Saur, Leon (2000). "Du rôle des piliers dans la politique étrangère de la Belgique. Le cas rwandais," pp. 246-258. In C. Roosen, C. Clément et O. Lanotte (Eds.) La Belgique et l'Afrique centrale : de 1960 à nos jours, Bruxelles : coéd. GRIP/Complexe.

  • Saur, Leon (2004). "From Kibeho to Medjugorje : The Catholic Church and Ethno-Nationalist Movements and Regimes," 211-227. In Carol Rittner, John K. Roth, and W. Whitworth (Eds.) Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches. St.Paul, MN-USA : Paragon House Publishers.

  • Saur, Leon (2004). "Le sabre, la machette et le Goupillon: Des Apparitions de Fatima au Genocide Rwandais." Editions Mols.

  • Saur, Leon (2007). "Quelques réflexions sur la politique des quotas au Rwanda", in Christine Deslaurier et Dominique Juhe-Beaulaton (dir.), Afrique, terre d'histoire. Au coeur de la recherche avec Jean-Pierre Chrétien, Paris : Karthala, pp. 435-455.

  • Remacle, Eric; Rosoux, Valérie B.; and Saur, Leon (Eds.) (2007). L'Afrique des Grands Lacs. Des conflits à la paix. Bruxelles : PIE Lang.

Contact

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