Rwanda is spectacular to behold… eucalyptus trees flash silver against brilliant green tea plantations; banana trees are everywhere… During the rainy season, the clouds are huge and low and fast, mists cling in highland hollows, lightning flickers through the night, and by 
day the land is lustrous. After the rains the skies lift, the terrain takes on a ragged look beneath the flat unvarying haze of the dry season, and in the savannahs of the Akagera Park wildfire blackens the haze.
Philip Gourevitch
Today, the country is often cited as 'Africa's success story': it has a real GDP growth rate of 5.5% [2009] and an industrial growth rate of 7%, and in 2007, Fortune published an article titled 'Why CEOs love Rwanda.'
Rwanda is an interesting place to be. For Nkabom, which actively seeks to delve deeper into things that at first appear laughingly obvious, Rwanda is an ideal place to be. The country has a history of conflict – but also of conflict resolution. It is the Commonwealth's newest member, all the more fascinating for the fact that the country has no colonial links to the UK: its membership is based on neither history nor obligation. It is a remarkably young country – the median age of Rwandans is 18.6 – and so the potential (and the necessity) for young people to be agents of development and peace is greater than elsewhere.
For a group of idealistic, impassioned youngsters wishing to discuss, debate and dismantle the existing challenges to peace and conflict resolution, Rwanda will provide an ideal setting. And who doesn't want to see a country where eucalyptus trees gleam silver against the backdrop of tea plantations?