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Conciliation
Last Updated: 10/19/2004
Conflict and resolution in RwandaAlphonse Nshimiyimana Alphonse Nshimiyimana describes his work in his home country of Rwanda at the Center for Conflict Management funded largely by UNDP and where, understandably, there is much to be done.
Center for Conflict Management (CCM) Research for peace The Center for Conflict Management (CCM) is part of National University of Rwanda’s departments and was created in 1999 as one of sets of initiatives aimed to deal with the consequences of the 1994 genocide. The CCM is a research center inspired by the National University of Rwanda’s mission built on three axes namely Education, Research and Service to the Community. Through action oriented researches, the Center for Conflict Management aims:
With now a staff of 16 persons including researchers, research assistants and administrative body, the Center for Conflict Management conducts its research activities in five main orientations or units:
The findings
of researches are published in the Cahiers of the center. Up till now, the
main publications concerned the Critical Review on Interpretation of Rwandan
Genocide, the Rwandan History, the Gacacaq
Jurisdictions, the Identity and Citizenship, Peace and Security in the Great
Lakes Region and the Elections of 2003 in Most of those researches were funded by United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which is also the main funding institution of the CCM since its creation. In addition
to the publications, the CCM provides trainings in conflict management and
conflict resolution to various beneficiaries involved in the process of
peace-building in In order to
overcome the constraints of human and financial means, the CCM established
partnerships with national and international organization and institutions,
which deal with conflicts and peace issues. The partnerships are based on
collaboration and exchanges of experiences and information. In this regard, most
of researches conceived by the CCM are conducted in collaboration with
researchers from other institutions or organization. Since 2003, the CCM has put
emphasis on the sub-region dimensions of the conflict and has associated to the
research activities the experts from q Traditional tribunals set up in order to deal with the large number of the suspects of the genocide The author is currently undertaking postgraduate work at the University for Peace. |