Young Rwandans take part in a candle lit vigil on the first of 100 days of remembrance as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide on April 7, 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo: Luke Dray / Getty Images

Welcome remarks:

9:00-9:30

Torunn Tryggestad (Deputy Director, Peace Research Institute of Oslo)

Jan Heiret (Director, Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minority Studies)

Andreas Kravik (State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Keynote:

9.30-10.00

Pramila Patten (Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations)                                          

            Keynote address: gender, accountability, and atrocity prevention

Panel session:

10.00-11.00

o     Honoré Gatera (Director, Kigali Genocide Memorial, Rwanda)

o     Erik Møse (former president of the ICTR, current Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine)

o     Jacqui True (Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), Monash University and PRIO Global Fellow)

o     Savita Pawnday (Executive Director, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect)

Introduced and moderated by Ellen Stensrud (Head of Research, Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies)

Concluding remarks:

11:00

Inger Skjelsbæk (Director, UiO Center for Gender Research)

The full event can be streamed here.