Tag: conflict resolution

As part of the Rwanda Peace Education Programme’s “Peace Week,” I had the opportunity of meeting with and hearing the testimony of Josephine Dusaminama who was a rescuer during the Genocide. It is the summer of 1994 in Kibuye Town, a small city on the eastern shore of Lake Kivu. Fishing boats parade Lake Kivu… Continue reading Rwandan Stories of Resistance: Josephine Dusaminama

Learning Lessons from the Rwanda to Prevent Future Genocides The Goldin Institute is proud to annouce that Achille Tenkiang of Princeton University has been selected for our Global Fellowship program for 2016.  Achille will spend his summer internship in Rwanda with our local partners at the Kigali Genocide Museum focused on uncovering and documenting stories… Continue reading Stories of Resistance from Rwanda to Inspire Anti-Violence efforts

In the tradition of the Goldin Institute’s Forgiveness and Reconciliation Project, and utilizing the ESPERE methodology developed with our colleagues in Colombia, our efforts towards building child soldier reintegration continues throughout Northern Uganda.  As our Global Associate on the ground in Uganda (Denis Okello) recently reported to us in this summary paper, both Kitgum and… Continue reading Colombia Brings Reconciliation Methods to Uganda

Like many of his colleagues, Father Leonel Narvaez, the Co-Founder and President of the Colombian peace-building organization Fundación para la Reconciliación (Foundation for Reconciliation), has a gift for weaving anecdotes throughout his presentations and sermons. Here in Izcalli, Mexico, at the Fourth International Meeting of the Fundación’s Escuelas de Perdón & Reconciliación, (The “Schools for… Continue reading Fr. Leonel Delivers Powerful Keynote Promoting Forgiveness

Forgiveness and Care Conference Mexico City Nov. 21 – 22, 2014 Our Global Associate Lissette Mateus Roa helped to coordinate this first of its kind conference to bring together an international audience exploring the successes and challenges to the ESPERE methodology for forgiveness and reconciliation pioneered in Colombia. In addition to Lissette, the Goldin Institute was represented… Continue reading Colombian Global Associate and Partners Expand Peace Initiative

In this Skype conversation direct from Bogotá, our global associate Lissette takes us through the recent strides made to end the 50 year conflict between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Lissette gave us her perspective of what the negotiations mean to her as someone leading community development projects and working… Continue reading Colombia | Update from the field

One of the core issues of the Goldin Institute’s mission has been our work partnering with communities to promote co-existence, reconciliation and peace-building efforts. Our partners in Colombia have made great strides in achieving this mission by building community-driven reconciliation tools that are an inspiration to our global network. Since 2007, when we convened with… Continue reading GI Global Associate Issues Progress Report on Project in Colombia

In this short video, Lissette Mateus Roa brings us up to date on what the partnership project has meant to the teachers, parents and students involved. This multi-sector approach has allowed for practices on how best to bring about change that will allow for acceptance and a better understanding of the issues faced by those… Continue reading Update on Pedagogy of Care and Reconciliation Partnership Project