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In particular, the research highlights the contribution that arts and cultural programmes can make to post-conflict communities, through therapy, reconciliation and civil society strengthening. Rwanda is a notable example, where cultural programmes drawing on shared cultural heritage have been central to the government’s efforts to create a unified Rwandan identity and heal ethnic divisions following the 1994 genocide.