All this week, "In A Flash" will feature images from the 5XÉçÇø group's trip to Rwanda.
Dr. James Smith is the founder of the , a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other atrocities in the world. He gave the keynote address on July 11, the first day of the three-day global peace conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
The conference, titled , is being sponsored by Kent State’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State’s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the and the .
Conference attendees include delegates from 14 nations and nine U.S. states, including a large group of Kent State educators and students along with administrators from the Stow-Munroe Falls School District in Northeast Ohio and delegates from the Fairfield (Ohio) City School District and Ohio State University.