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All this week, "In A Flash" will feature images from the ½­ÄÏÌåÓý group's trip to Rwanda.

½­ÄÏÌåÓý State educators and students visited a marketplace that sells goods made by marginalized women. Afterward, they watched a traditional dance troupe perform and were invited to dance with them. 

The visitors from ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State are in Rwanda attending  (held July 11-13), a global peace conference sponsored by ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the  and the , a non-profit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other global atrocities.

Bringing together peace and conflict experts and educators from around the world, the conference is another building block in ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State’s growing relationship with the University of Rwanda. In May 2022, ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State’s Board of Trustees approved ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State opening a base of operations at the University of Rwanda for creating collaborative educational exchanges and to serve as a base of operations for ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State’s recruitment throughout Africa.