“A Personal Story of Healing, Understanding the Causes of Violence and Finding Peace”
Prosper Ishimwe, student in the School of Policy and International Affairs, speaks the Rwandan Genocide. Hosted by SPIA. Thursday April 14th in DP Corbett, Room 115.
Prosper Ishimwe is a graduate student of Global Policy in SPIA. He was born and raised in Rwanda and moved to the U.S in the Summer of 2014. He was 8 years old when the genocide broke out in his country. He survived two massacres between April and July 1994 in which his grandfather and his little cousin were killed. At the end of the genocide and war he found himself separated from his parents and siblings. Prosper’s family reunited two years later without his mother and youngest sister, both of whom died under unknown circumstances. Before coming to the U.S, Prosper worked with the Peace Corps as a language and cross culture facilitator, the Junior Chamber International as a project coordinator, and Never Again Rwanda as a Peace Building Coordinator. He also worked on the Film “From Trauma to Peace” which documents trauma recovery stories from genocide survivors. Despite a tragic past, Prosper is a strong believer in World Peace and hopes to spend the rest of his life working towards the attainment of Peace. He is passionate about Globalization and African Development.