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Rémy Paulin Twahirwa

  • Scholar 2020
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Sociology
London School of Economics
Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa is involved in various social justice causes, notably the human rights of migrants and refugees.
An Engaged Leader is someone who places themselves at risk. The path is not an easy one for the person who rejects the deadliness of illness, poverty, conflict, the collapse of our planet, or the dictates of the powerful. While we live in a world in crisis characterized as “the end of imagination” in the words of Indian writer Arundhati Roy, universities must produce leaders bold enough to imagine a different fate for the world.
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Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa is involved in various social justice causes, notably the human rights of migrants and refugees. As a researcher and community organizer, he developped an expertise on issues related to discrimination, racism and socio-economic inequalities. M. Twahirwa sits on the Board of Directors of the solidarity organization Alternatives and is a member of the Conseil interculturel de Montréal. He is also a founding member of the collective Lectures radicales Montréal. He holds two degree in Social Sciences, the first from the Université du Québec à Montréal (M.A. Political Science) and the second from the Université de Laval (B.A., International Studies), and is currently a Ph.D. student in Social Sciences at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on detention centres in Canada and in the United Kingdom.