It would be difficult to overestimate the scale and impact of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. In a period of just three months, as many as 1 million people were brutally murdered leaving a legacy of destruction, fear and distrust. It may seem abhorrent to suggest that anything good could result from such horror but positive changes, or posttraumatic growth, can be observed in the lives of many Rwandan survivors. This introduction takes the examples of two survivors, Marcel and Rose, to illustrate the gendered nature of posttraumatic growth in Rwanda. Their testimonies, which come from the Genocide Archive of Rwanda, are also used to introduce the overall corpus of 42 testimonies (19 men, 23 women) analysed in the book. Their cases enable me to explain and exemplify the concept of posttraumatic growth, situating it alongside other theories of trauma including trauma theory and clinical psychology. In particular, I argue that a new reading of trauma is possible and perhaps necessary: one that acknowledges not just the negative but also the positive responses to trauma; one that recognizes the individual agency of survivors in becoming devictimized and rebuilding a new life; and one that moves beyond narrow, Western-centric models.