| Reconciliation Processes in Africa: Rwanda |
| This collection of Internet resources includes selected country-specific case study experiences that are helping and/or hindering reconciliation processes in Africa at international, regional, national, and communal levels.Although selective, inclusion of a site by no means constitutes
endorsement by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Every source listed here was successfully tested before being added to the list. Users, however, should be aware that a successful connection may sometimes require several attempts.
For additional research and bibliographic materials on reconciliation processes in African countries consult the Library's online catalog.
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| CONGREGATIONAL HEALING: LESSONS FROM AFRICA / BY KARL DORTZBACH (http://www.commongroundjournal.org/v01n01/v01n01p1.html) |
| “Nyirarukundo was a Hutu Presbyterian pastor in his 70s. He was known in his community as a man of God who loved his flock. But the love was severely tested one day when six Tutsis came knocking on his door seeking his protection from the savage militias who were hunting them.” |
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| The DELEGATION REPORT (http://www.quaker.org/fptp/agli/delegation.htm#uganda) |
| “From January 3 through 23, 1999, a seven member delegation from the Friends Peace Teams Project's African Great Lakes Initiative visited Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. ... The purpose of the mission was to visit Quakers and others involved in peacemaking activities in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, explore African Quakers' participation in peacemaking, reconciliation, and trauma healing and assess the possibility of placing a long-term Peace Team in the area.”
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| PILGRIM CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION: RESTORATION IN RWANDA AND BURUNDI (http://www.kingdomoil.org/kingdomfund/intl/intprofile%5FPilgrimCenter.htm) |
| “The Pilgrim Center leads healing retreats to restore Christian relationships in Rwanda and Burundi where the Church was divided through the systematic massacre of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu men, women and children by an extremist Hutu government in 1994. To date, 900 Rwandans and 900 Burundis have learned ‘the way of forgiveness’ in three-day retreats ... A majority of these 1,800 are church leaders who now work to bring transformation and healing to their own congregations.”
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| RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE: SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE CENTRAL AFRICA VISION 2000 (http://www.cav2000.org/sights%5Fand%5Fsound.htm) |
| The mission of the Central Africa Vision 2000, Inc., is to partner with churches and communities of different ethnic groups to bring about peace and justice through reconciliation in central Africa.... Ths site provides a photographic and audio report of the 1999 Reconciliation Conference in Bukavu, Congo. Jennifer Jones reports live from Central Africa on WMSJ's (drawnear.org/wmsj) morning show hosted by Donny Webb. Also, this site contains information on other regional conferences. (RealPlayer is required for audio.)
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| A RECONCILIATION PROJECT WITH RUANDESE HUTU AND TUTSI / BY PAT PATFOORT (BELGIUM)
(http://www.copri.dk/copri/ipra/Conf-papers/Patfoort-CO.doc) |
| This report was presented for the Commission on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building at the
18th General Conference of the International Peace Research Association, "Challenges for Peace Research in the 21st Century : A Dialogue of Civilisations," in Tampere, Finland, August 5-9, 2000. The author describes a non-governmental project to bring together Rwandan refugees living in Belgium. “Two years ago we started to work with a group of them, men and women, of all ages, of very different backgrounds and education, and as well Tutsi as Hutu. The group meets every month, with 12-15 people present at every meeting. The work methods used are lectures, storytelling (of historical exemples [sic] and own experiences) and discussion, analysis exercices, [sic] conceptual and experiential exercices[sic], role plays, symbolic games.”
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| THE ROLE OF FORGIVENESS IN RECONSTRUCTING SOCIETY AFTER CONFLICT / MARCIA BYROM HARTWELL
(http://www.jha.ac/articles/a048.htm) |
| Written in 1998 and published in the electronic Journal of Humanitarian Assistance in 2000, the author reviews the professional literature on the role of forgiveness in reconciliation, particularly in the cases of Rwanda and South Africa.
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