SUMMIT Speaker Series Presents: Women and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Post-Genocide Rwanda by Dr. Jennie Burnet

In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women faced the impossible-resurrecting their lives amidst unthinkable devastation in a society torn by genocide.

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Rwanda over the past 22 years, Dr. Jennie Burnet, associate professor of anthropology at Georgia State University, will discuss how women rebuilt their lives and traversed dangerous emotional and political terrain to emerge as leaders in the country’s reconstruction and reconciliation.

About Dr. Burnet

Dr. Jennie E. Burnet
Associate professor of Anthropology
Georgia State University

Burnet’s award-winning book, Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory & Silence in Rwanda was published in 2012. Her research has appeared in Politics & Gender, African Affairs, African Studies Review, and the Women’s Studies International Forum. She has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA. She is currently on the Georgia Advisory Board of the Center for Victims of Torture.