Conferences/Speaking Engagements

Rwanda Day 2012
  • Richard Stockton College Economic Lecture Series on November 30th, 2010:
    Title: Somalia Reconsidered: An Examination of the Potential Stability of the Region through Neoclassical Economics.
  • University of North Carolina on June 12th, 2013:
    Title: History to Today, the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for university students traveling in Kigali, Rwanda.
  • The National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide on June 24th, 2013:
    Title: Mechanisms of Research Methodology, directed for Rwandan researchers at CNLG.
  • New York University Global Secularism on November 15th-16th, 2013: Panel: The Public Sphere Paper Title: The Development of the Relationship between the Public Sphere and the Church in Rwanda
  • BBC World Have Your Say:
    Television
    : Discussed on whether the international community expects too much of the UN/the situation in the Central African Republic. Watch
    Radio: The international community’s responsibility to assist in African conflicts. December 24th, 2013 Listen
  • 20 Years After the Rwandan Genocide – Panel Discussion by the War Studies Society of King’s College London on March 16th, 2014. Title: Rwanda Today: From the Ashes of Genocide (Security, Economic and Political Development)
  • Africa Research Day hosted by the African Research Students Network (AfNet) on March 17th, 2014. Title: The Geopolitical Effects of Rwanda’s Possible Mineral Wealth
  • Rwanda 20 Years After: Memory, Justice, and Recovery in the Shadow of Genocide conference on March 28th-30th, 2014: Title: being presented: Double Genocide or Revenge Killings? Did the Liberators of the Rwandan Genocide Commit their own Genocide?
  • SOAS MPhil Politics and International Studies Conference on June 8th, 2014: Title: The Geopolitical Affects of Rwanda’s Possible Mineral Wealth
  • Global Peace Builders Conference on August 7th-8th, 2014: Moderator: Rwanda – Genocide, Division and Ethnicity. The Breakdown of Society and Factors that Lead to Genocide.
  • SOAS Professional Development for Research Students on February 19th, 2015: Title: Fieldwork: Preparation, During and Afterwards
  • Africa Research Day hosted by the African Research Students Network (AfNet) on March 16th, 2015: Title: Rwanda’s Agaciro Foreign Policy in the African Great Lakes
  • The Forgotten Crisis: What’s Happening in the Central African Republic hosted by King’s College of War Studies, Society, Action for CAR and Aegis Students on March 25th, 2015. Title: International and Regional Dynamics in Establishing Stability in the Central African Republic
  • United Nations at 70′ Conference at SOAS hosted by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy on October 24, 2015. Title: The Transition of the Rwandan Defence Force from Genocide towards Peacekeeping
  • Oxford Central Africa Forum hosted by Oxford University on February 12th, 2016. Title: The Evolution of Rwandan Foreign Policy: from Genocide to Globalisation
  • The 57th Annual Convention in Atlanta, USA hosted by the International Studies Association (ISA) on March 16th-19th. Title: Rwanda’s Rwanda’s Agaciro Foreign Policy in the African Great Lakes
  • Researching East Africa: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Day hosted by University of Warwick on May 13, 2016. Title: Rwandan Foreign Policy within Central and East Africa.
  • Africa Research Day hosted by the African Research Students Network (AfNet) on May 25th, 2016: Title: The Limitations of Space within the realm of the Study of Rwanda
  • ISA Northeast Baltimore on November 4th, 2016. Title: The Evolution of Rwandan Foreign Policy: from Genocide to Globalisation
  • Holocaust Memorial Day at SOAS: Genocide remembrance in Rwanda and Israel on January 26th, 2017. Title: Rwandan Perceptions of the Holocaust, Jews and Israel
  • Africa Research Forum at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge on February 1st, 2017. Title: Viewing the World After Genocide: The Evolution of Rwandan Foreign Policy since 1994
  • ISSS-ISAC Annual Conference 2017, Washington, D.C. on October 13th-14th, 2017. Title: Peacekeeping to Promote State Security: The Case Study of Rwanda’s Participation in Regional Peacekeeping
  • Rwanda After 1994: Stories of Change, hosted by University of St Andrew on July 6th, 2018. Title: Rwandan Perceptions and Engagement with the International Community
  • PubhD Kigali on February 14th, 2019. Title: Viewing the World After Genocide: The Evolution of Rwandan Foreign Policy since 1994
  • The 60th Annual Convention in Toronto, Canada hosted by the International Studies Association (ISA) on March 26th-30th, 2019. Title: Rwanda’s Historical, Economic and Political Progressive Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment.
  • DSA2019: Opening up Development hosted by the Open University, Milton Keynes, on June 19th-21st, 2019. Title: Structure, Agency and Identity of Foreign Aid Relationships between Rwanda and Donors
  • France 24: Who is Félicien Kabuga? Rwandan genocide kingpin arrested in France on May 28, 2020, Watch
  • Salaamedia, April 6, 2024: How far has Rwanda come, 30 years after genocide? Link
  • POWER Weekend Breakfast: April 14, 2024, on Rwanda’s Kwibuka commemoration.
  • 2024 Annual Conference: Centre of African Studies and Centre for Security Research at the University of Edinburgh, on April 23-24, 2024: Inspired by Failure: The Impact of UNAMIR on Rwanda’s Current Peacekeeping Operations
  • BBC Radio Scotland, The Sunday Show: April 28, 2024, on the UK-Rwanda Migration Plan Link
  • New Books Network, on January 10, 2025, on the book, The Strategy to End the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: Understanding the War in Kigali Link
  • Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), ““Elusive peace” in Eastern DRC: Is negotiation still an option and what role can local and international actors play?”, February 28, 2025 Link
  • The Centre for African Conflict and Development (CACD), “Qatari’s Government Negotiated DRC-Rwanda Peace Agreement”, March 19, 2025 Link

Please contact me if you wish for me to speak or present at your upcoming program.