“Responsible Citizenship in a Post-Conflict Context” via CIPE Development Blog
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda horrified the world with its extreme brutality. However, in the intervening years, media coverage of the country has decreased dramatically, and Rwanda’s situation has faded from the attention of the international community. Most people outside of the country, therefore, are largely unaware of the immense social, political, and economic challenges still facing Rwanda.
In his Feature Service article, Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase, a Rwandan living in exile in South Africa and an honorable mention winner in CIPE’s youth essay competition, describes how history is being re-written in the country and the government’s policies to de-ethnicize Rwanda are actually doing the opposite. Especially for young people, this widespread propagation of revisionist...
In February, CIPE launched an essay competition, which asked young people aged 18-30 to share their ideas about citizenship, democratic and market-oriented reform, and youth leadership. In response, CIPE received 445 essays from 72 countries!
CIPE is now pleased to announce the winners! Although we originally planned to name nine winners, the essays were so great that the judges (CIPE partners from think tanks around the world, as well as some CIPE staff) chose 16.
Essay competition winners came from all over the world - take a look at the map below! An equal number of males and females participated, and the most popular category was Educational Reform and Employment Opportunities. Participants from Indonesia sent in the highest percentage of essays (12%), and regionally, Africa was...