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In a special blog post, Baleseng Maeneche, winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2024, explores her thesis 'Media representations of male perpetrators of violence against women and children: A decolonial feminist analysis'. The visibility of violence in South African news media is painfully selective, she writes. 

In a new blog, Lidewyde Berckmoes reflects on Rwanda three decades after the genocide against the Tutsi. She explores the entanglements of peace and war in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, asking: does peace demand war elsewhere, and can hope for future generations grow from past wounds?

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