….the campaign employs the most popular and entertaining radio formats…

…has been piloted in Rwanda between 2003 and 2005…

… a thoroughly researched and evaluated broadcast campaign to disseminate
knowledge, gained from applied psychology and genocide studies, to a large
audience…

…The area witnessed a genocide that took close to a million lives in 1994
in Rwanda , rebellions and repressions that killed more than 350,000 people
in Burundi between 1993 and 2004, and civil wars and foreign invasions that
caused directly or indirectly the death of around 3.5 million people in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. This immense violence has left most people
traumatized and their unhealed wounds may fuel further cycles of violence…

The violence and continuous unrest fuels the currently fashionable attitude
of "Afro-pessimism" that is shared by the public and by certain
intellectuals. These intellectuals have no qualms about asking whether the
Great Lakes region has any true capacity for progress. Some go as far to
suggest that "this region is cursed". Optimism may be difficult in the face
of recent events, but against every regional peace and reconciliation sign
that points to danger, there are signs of hope within the area's civil
society and in recent political undertakings of the regional powers.
Positive trends, upon which, this program intends to build.


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