FIGHTING ETHNOCENTRISM REQUIRES CONCERTED EFFORTS

Rwanda has offered to lead the struggle to eliminate ethnic based beliefs in the Great Lakes region. This is out of the realisation that such beliefs are a major cause of conflict in the region. This was revealed during a conference organised this week by the Amani parliamentary forum Rwanda chapter. The campaign against ethnocentrism is not only timely but a noble undertaking. This is because the region has for long been subjected to conflicts whose origins can be traced to ethnic divisionism that is a result of ethnocentrism. And the impact has been devastating.