Imagine if most of the Jews who fled Germany – plus those who survived the Holocaust – returned to Germany after the war, created a new form of participatory government which outlawed discrimination, prosecuted almost a million genocide perpetrators through local community courts, encouraged the lower-level perpetrators to apologize and serve time building houses and roads, elevated the status of women to the point that over 50% of the members of parliament were women, and embarked upon an ambitious reconciliation and healing campaign at every level of German society. Can’t imagine it? Neither can I. But in Rwanda, the unimaginable is a reality. This February, on the eve of Rwanda’s commemoration of the 20 th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide, I joined a 10-day “witnessing” tour hosted by the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding , based in Amherst . Each day our small group of Americans met Rwandan people with powerful stories to tell. We met physicians and subsistence farmers