PGEF ADVISORY BOARD
Reva N. Adler • Shyaka Anastase • Elizabeth Brill • Eugene Bushayija • Gerald Caplan • Smail Cekic • Francois Gurambe • Robert K. Hitchcock • Carole Hodge • Linda R. Melvern • Martin Mennecke • Esther Mujawayo • Cecile Mukarubuga • Leon Saur • Gregory H. Stanton • Ervin Staub • Scott Straus • Samuel Totten • Rafiki Ubaldo • Alexander Zahar
Reva N. Adler • Shyaka Anastase • Elizabeth Brill • Eugene Bushayija • Gerald Caplan • Smail Cekic • Francois Gurambe • Robert K. Hitchcock • Carole Hodge • Linda R. Melvern • Martin Mennecke • Esther Mujawayo • Cecile Mukarubuga • Leon Saur • Gregory H. Stanton • Ervin Staub • Scott Straus • Samuel Totten • Rafiki Ubaldo • Alexander Zahar
Rafiki Ubaldo
Rafiki Ubaldo is an independent researcher and free-lance journalist living in Sweden. Currently he is studying political science at Stockholm University.
From 1997 until 1999 he taught languages in the Catholic Junior Seminary of Butare in the south of Rwanda. From 2000 until 2003, he worked as a reporter for Orinfor, the "Office Rwandais d'Information" where he primarily covered events and stories related to the Rwandan genocide, including the ICTR Appeal trial of Jean Kambanda, the Prime Minister of the interim government that executed genocide in Rwanda.
It is during his time at Orinfor that Rafiki Ubaldo coined the word "Ikusanyabukungu" to express the concept of "Globalisation" in Kinyarwanda language.
He has spoken extensively on the Rwandan genocide at various conferences and seminars in the UK, Denmark, France, and Sweden, and Bosnia. Among the institutions that have invited him to speak on both his own experiences during the 1994 Rwandan genocide as well as to present his analysis of such are: The International Scientific Conference on Genocide against Bosniaks of the UN Safe Area of Srebrenica (Sarajevo, Bosnia); The Olof Palme International Center (Stockholm, Sweden); The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (Uppsala, Sweden); The Aegis Trust (London, England); The Danish Center for International Studies/ Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark); the Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Uppsala, Sweden); the Centre d’Histoire de Science Po (Paris, France).
His current research projects focus on, among other topics, the memory of the Rwandan genocide, rescue during the Rwanda genocide, and the Gacaca, a semi-traditional system of justice designed for genocide trials in Rwanda.
With Dr. Samuel Totten of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Rafiki Ubaldo is co-founder of Post-Genocide Education Fund, an initiative that aims at assisting young survivors at different universities in their home countries.
Select List of Publications
- The Christian Churches and the Construction of a Genocidal Mentality in Rwanda. (with Mattias Bojrnlund, Eric Markusen and Peter Steenborg) in Carol Rittner, John Roth and Wendy Whitworth (Eds.), Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches, St Paul, Minnesota: Paragon House 2004, pp 141-167
- L'Eglise de Kibeho, lieu de culte ou lieu de mémoire du génocide de 1994 (With Jean Pierre Chrétien) in La Revue de l’Histoire de la Shoah, no 181. juillet - décembre 2004.
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