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Baby mountain gorilla at Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park.

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State visitors viewed mountain gorillas in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park as guests of the Rwandan National Police, who provide security for the park and these endangered animals. 

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Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State visitors meet at the Rwandan Ministry.

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State's visitors to Rwanda had opportunities to speak with officials dedicated to the country's peaceful future. 

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State students check out the Kigali skyline

Over the past several weeks, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University faculty and staff, along with a select group of students, have traveled to Kigali, Rwanda, taking part in a host of educational programs and cultural exchange.

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Dance troupe in Rwanda.

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State students experienced Rwandan culture as part of their study abroad experience. 

Survivors and perpetrators embracing at the reconciliation village

Students in Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State's Kigali Summer Institute visited the Lycee Saint Marcel de Rukara reconciliation village in Rwanda to learn about forgiveness after the genocide against the Tutsi with both survivors and perpetrators.

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Flying velvet monkey and baby in Kigali, Rwanda.

A group from Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State visiting Rwanda for a university-sponsored global peace conference was treated to a show by local monkeys.

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State graduate student Camille Tinnin gives a presentation on peace through storytelling, on July 12 at Peace Education in an Era of Crisis, a global peace conference being sponsored by Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University, the University of Rwanda and the Aegis Trust.

A trio of Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University students took the lessons they learned on an education-abroad trip to Colombia last year and used them as a framework for promoting peace education practices at a global peace conference in Kigali, Rwanda. 

Molly Merryman presenting at a global peace conference in Rwanda

A host of Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University faculty and students took center stage at a global peace conference on July 12 in Kigali, Rwanda, sharing their knowledge and research with delegates from more than a dozen countries and as well as the U.S.

James Smith, keynote speaker of the peace conference in Rwanda

The founder of the Aegis Trust delivered the keynote address at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State-sponsored global peace conference in Rwanda.