The Blacksmith of Rwandan Reconciliation

In 2005, a blacksmith named Celestin Musekura returned to Rwanda, eleven years after the genocide that killed over 800,000 of his countrymen — including members of his own family. He carried neither a weapon nor a grudge. He carried a vision. Celestin founded ALARM — African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries — and began the unthinkable work of bringing Hutu perpetrators and Tutsi survivors into the same room.…