After studying philosophy, focusing on the theoretical thinking behind crimes against humanity, and a Masters in Human Rights on genocide prevention, Amélie Faucheux undertook a doctoral thesis in sociology and psychosociology in a cognitive science laboratory (Institut Jean Nicod, EHESS/PSL Paris) on the processes at the root of the intimate dimension of the 1994 extermination of the Rwandan Tutsis: Proximal relations between executioners and victims or the unprecedented of a mass crime committed in the heart of neighbourhoods, marked by ruptures in alliances and kinship. She spent over a year and a half in the field, meeting inmates from eleven prisons in Rwanda and Benin, as well as former criminals and exiled figures from the Rwandan diaspora in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using an introspective and phenomenological approach, she continues her research with those convicted of genocide, as well as survivors and therapists, on the processes of destruction and reconstruction and the maintenance of collective prejudice in the aftermath of genocide.

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