Berkley Center

Jean-Damascene Gasanabo is the director general of the National Research and Documentation Center on Genocide at Rwanda's National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide. His research interests focus on the construction of exclusive identities in Rwanda from 1962 to 1994. He previously worked within UNESCO headquarters in Paris as an education consultant. From 2006 to 2008, Gasanabo was head of support in charge of research and communications at Geneva Call, an international humanitarian organization dedicated to engaging armed groups to end the use of anti-personnel mines. Gasanabo received his Ph.D. in education from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.