On September 20th, 2025, the Kigali Peace Ambassadors' Network (PAN), in collaboration with Aegis Trust, celebrated the International Day of Peace through the Turi Umwe Peace Festival in Kigali. The event was a powerful reminder that peace is not passive; it requires deliberate action from every individual, community, and institution. This year's UN theme, "Act [...]
The Aegis Trust has taken a significant step forward in its peacebuilding mission with the launch of the Peace Ambassadors Network (PAN), a new initiative funded by Sida and Creative Visions to connect and empower peace agents across Rwanda. The network was officially inaugurated on 7 March at the Kigali Community Peace Center within the [...]
The Aegis Trust is delighted that First Prize in Digital Media at the inaugural Global Media Peace Awards has gone to Richard Sergay for his short film which unpacks the development of peacebuilding in Rwanda through the story of Aegis CEO Freddy Mutanguha. ‘Forgiveness: A Pathway to Peace' was made by Richard Sergay in collaboration [...]
On November 1st, the Kigali Genocide Memorial Amphitheatre hosted an extraordinary musical performance, "East West Street: A Song of Good and Evil," inspired by Philippe Sands' award-winning book East West Street. Dignitaries attending included First Lady Jeannette Kagame, French Ambassador Antoine Anfre, German Ambassador Heike Uta Dettmann and Minister of State for Youth and Arts [...]
In a deeply moving episode of the Aegis Trust's 'Peace at Risk in Bosnia' podcast, Aegis founder Dr James Smith speaks with two remarkable women working at the heart of memorialization and community rebuilding in post-genocide Srebrenica. Almasa Salihović, Director of Communications at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Centre, and Amra Begić, Deputy Director of the [...]
On September 21st, the Kigali Community Peace Center located at Kigali Genocide Memorial hosted the national celebration of the International Day of Peace. Organized by the Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement in collaboration with International Alert, Never Again Rwanda, Interpeace, and Aegis Trust, the event was themed “Cultivating a Culture of Peace” and [...]
In Kigali from 25th to 28th July, the Aegis Trust will host ‘Listening and Leading: the Art and Science of Peace, Resilience and Transformational Justice’. Registration for the conference is filling rapidly, but places are still available at event.aegistrust.org. The conference will be held at the Kigali Genocide Memorial (run by Aegis on behalf of Rwanda’s [...]
For Kwibuka 30 - the 30th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi - the Aegis Trust worked in partnership with others to produce mobile exhibitions displayed at the UN headquarters in New York, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, at the EU foreign ministry in Brussels and at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. [...]
On 1 February, the Aegis Trust had the pleasure of welcoming to the Kigali Genocide Memorial members of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) who were in Kigali for the YPO annual global summit. Before embarking on their tour of the Memorial, Aegis CEO Freddy Mutanguha introduced them to some of the work done here. “We [...]
The Aegis Trust is calling for proposals on integration of gender equality in youth groups and organisations which operate in the catchment areas of its three community peace centres in Rwanda. The deadline for submissions is Friday June 16th, 2023. Full details about this call can be found below, including an outline of the support [...]
