Welcome to Rwanda

At the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago, Commonwealth leaders agreed to accept Rwanda as the 54th member of the Commonwealth.

A short video reporting the decision is available at:
http://video.thecommonwealth.org/services/player/bcpid2517730001?bctid=53040352001

An overview of the CHOGM by Derek Ingram, entitled A Surge of New Activity for the Commonwealth,  is also available on the Commonwealth Secretariat website.

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library currently has a small collection of material on Rwanda, largely acquired to support the Institute's MA in Undertsanding and Securing Human Rights. These materials focus on both the 1994 genocide and the post-conflict reconstruction that followed. As a result of Rwanda's membership of the Commonwealth we will further develop and broaden the scope of this collection, co-operating with other London libraries including the SOAS Library and British Library, who also collect material from and about Rwanda.

Research on Rwanda is being added to the database of Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Countries. We welcome any postgraduate research students doing work on Rwanda to contact us so this can be kept up to date.