‘…sexual violence is not just a collateral damage during war and ethnic cleansing, but rather a major mechanism for ethnic cleansing and also for State making seeking to produce ethnically homogenous state…’. In this video, Jacqui True, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), explores how insights from the Rwandan genocide have contributed to atrocity prevention, particularly from a gender perspective.