BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PEACE AFTER GENOCIDE
Please note: Recordings of the two-day Building Sustainable Peace after Genocide: Lessons from Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina virtual Zoom conference will be linked here.
This conference brought together internationally renowned academics and activists to discuss their knowledge and experience of peacebuilding in the Rwandan and Bosnian contexts, religion and peacebuilding, and international law and transitional justice. The conference provided an opportunity to learn how members of faith communities have courageously and creatively engaged in peacemaking activities in areas characterized by ethnic and religious tensions.
List of Speakers
DAY 1 - Thursday, April 11, 2024
Session I: 9:00-10:30am EDT
Welcome: Dr. Joseph Lennon, Associate Dean, International and Interdisciplinary Initiatives, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Villanova University
Panel on Peacebuilding in Rwanda after the Genocide
Honorable Euthalie Nyirabega, Member of the Parliament of Rwanda, Senior Lecturer University of Rwanda
Eric Ns. Ndushabandi, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and International relations, Associate Researcher at UCLouvain, Centre de Recherche en science politique
Marcel Uwineza, SJ, Principal (President) and Senior Lecturer of Systematic Theology, Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya
Session II: 10:45am-12:15pm EDT
Keynote address: The Role of Religion and Religious Communities in Peacebuilding: Rwanda and the African Context
Elisee Rutagambwa, SJ, Ph.D., Dean of Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations, Hekima University College, a Constituent College of the Catholic University of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
DAY 2 - Friday, April 12, 2024
Session I: 9:00-10:30am EDT
Panel on Women and Religious Peacebuilders in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zorica Maros, Ph.D., Professor of Moral Theology, Catholic Theological Faculty of The University of Sarajevo
Zilka Spahić Šiljak, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University Gender Resource Center, University of Sarajevo; Director, TPO Foundation Sarajevo
Elma Bešlić
Session II: 10:45am-12:15pm EDT
Keynote Address: International Law and Transitional Justice as Elements of Peacebuilding
Andrea Matačić Cayley, J.D., Ph.D., Exec. Dir., Washington, D.C. Programs, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, and former prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Hosted by Gerald J. Beyer, Ph.D., Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies.
For conference questions or more information, please contact gerald.beyer@ villanova.edu or theology@villanova.edu.