Rwanda
Strategy
In 1998, Rwanda 's Nantional Unity and Reconciliation Committee (NURC) invited two psychologists, renowned genocide scholar and reconciliation specialist Ervin Staub and trauma treatment expert Laurie Pearlman to hold biannual seminars for Rwandan politicians and civil society leaders.
Country background
The scale, speed and atrocity of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 tore Rwandan society apart. Nowadays, Rwanda is still trying to heal the enormous psychological and social damage caused by the genocide, so it is particularly relevant to any project attempting to counteract incitement to violence through the media.