| Abstract | To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/asap.12115/abstract Byline: Laurent Licata This commentary on Moss and Vollhardt's (2016) article examines how their findings complement a study by Kanazayire, Licata, Melotte, Dusingizemungu, and Azzi (2014), which also sought to assess the effectiveness of the Rwandan government's ethnic identity policy for improving reconciliation sentiments in postgenocide Rwanda. Biographical information: LAURENT LICATA is professor of social and cultural psychology at Universite libre de Bruxelles. His main research interests are the role played by collective memories (or social representations of history) in shaping social identities and in influencing intergroup relation processes, and the acculturation processes of people from immigrant descent. He is presently Chair of COST Action IS1205 'Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union'.
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