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Healing through Remembering

Sharing Grassroots Experiences of Peace, Reconciliation and Healing in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

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Editors:
  1. Karin E. Sauer

    1. Fakultät Sozialwesen, DHBW Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

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  2. Dieter Brandes

    1. Facultatea de Teologie, Universitatea Lucian Blaga, Sibiu, Romania

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  3. Penine Uwimbabazi

    1. Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences, Butare, Rwanda

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  4. Onésime Nzambimana

    1. Université des Grands Lacs, Bujumbura, Burundi

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  5. Mumbere Ndemo Mbasa

    1. ULPGL, Goma City, Congo, Demographic Republic (Zaire)

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  • Contains in-depth insights into healing through remembering in East African countries
  • Covers both academic and fieldwork approaches to Memory Work regarding the transformation of conflict and trauma
  • Provides a comprehensive overview of promoting peace in post-conflict societies

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Healing of Memories. An African Approach to Reconciliation Takes Its Course

    • Dieter Brandes
    Pages 1-12

  3. Memory Work as Participatory Action Research. Introducing the Collaboration of Burundian, Congolese, Rwandan and German Researchers

    • Karin E. Sauer
    Pages 13-25

  4. Burundi

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Burundi—An Overview

      • Onésime Nzambimana
      Pages 29-32

    3. Background of the Conflicts in the Great Lakes Region and Implementation of Methods for Reconciliation and Trauma Healing Using the Example of the Organization APRED-RGL

      • David J. Fechner
      Pages 33-52

    4. From the Challenges to the Strengths of the Ongoing Reconciliation Process in Burundi

      • Denis Kazungu
      Pages 53-67

    5. Awareness-Raising via Interactive Theater at Gitega Commune Bugendana. Contribution of Civil Society Organizations to Dealing with Past Traumas and Intergenerational Dialogues for Community Reconciliation

      • Alexis Niyibigira, Josiane Nimbona, Josiane-Yvette Kamariza
      Pages 69-94

    6. Recovering the Wealth of Our Humanness: Ubuntu as a Basis of Lasting Reconciliation

      • Symphorien Ntibagirirwa
      Pages 95-108

  5. Rwanda

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Rwanda—An Overview

      • Penine Uwimbabazi
      Pages 111-113

    3. The Impact of Grassroots Reconciliation Processes on Healing Wounds Among Survivors of the Tutsi Genocide Among Tutsi Genocide Survivors and Former Perpetrators in Rwanda: A Case Study of the Light Group-Remera Presbytery

      • Jerôme N. Bizimana
      Pages 115-126

    4. Grassroots Experience of Memory, Healing, and Reconciliation: Learning from the Center for Training and Documentation (CFD) of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda

      • Célestin Nsengimana
      Pages 127-145

    5. Reconciliation and Healing in Shyogwe Diocese of the Anglican Church of Rwanda (EAR)

      • Venant Ntakirutimana
      Pages 147-160

    6. The Role of the Anglican Church of Rwanda (EAR) Kigeme in Promoting Peace, Unity and Reconciliation Through Grass Root Churches

      • Felicien Imanirakiza
      Pages 161-170

    7. Flowers of Reconciliation from Umucyo Nyanza Project: Grassroots Experiences

      • Penine Uwimbabazi, Shukulu Murekatete
      Pages 171-182
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About this book

This educational handbook displays grassroots experiences of peace, reconciliation, and healing in the Great Lakes region of Africa, in which Burundian, Congolese, and Rwandan authors share their understandings and practices of Memory Work. They committed to do so in a joint Participatory Action Research Team together with German facilitators. The team members ‘opened their archives’ on the traumatizing effects of the severe conflicts that each of these countries experienced. Their learnings and findings from this research process are collected in this book, which aims to resolve remaining tensions resulting from past experiences. Displaying a variety of strategies that lead to a Healing of Memories, it is high time to integrate such discourses into a mainly Western-European-centered scientific community. In this way, the book aims to fill the academic void regarding the German-colonial legacy of violence in the three neighboring countries, which was fueled under colonial rule. As such, this book is central to current discourses on the decolonization of science in terms of authorship, research ethics, and methods.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fakultät Sozialwesen, DHBW Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

    Karin E. Sauer

  • Facultatea de Teologie, Universitatea Lucian Blaga, Sibiu, Romania

    Dieter Brandes

  • Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences, Butare, Rwanda

    Penine Uwimbabazi

  • Université des Grands Lacs, Bujumbura, Burundi

    Onésime Nzambimana

  • ULPGL, Goma City, Congo, Demographic Republic (Zaire)

    Mumbere Ndemo Mbasa

About the editors

Karin Elinor Sauer, Dr. rer. soc., Dipl.-Päd., Professor of Social Work Theory and Social Work Methods at DHBW Villingen-Schwenningen.


Dieter Brandes, Rev. Dr. theol. at the Facultatea de Teologie “Sfântul Andrei Şaguna” in Sibiu-Romania.


Penine Uwimbabazi, Prof. Dr., Vice Chancellor of the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS), Huye.


Onésime Nzambimana, general secretary at Université des Grands Lacs (UGL), Goma.


Mumbere Ndemo Mbasa, Prof. Dr., permanent professor at the Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs-Goma (ULPGL).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Healing through Remembering

  • Book Subtitle: Sharing Grassroots Experiences of Peace, Reconciliation and Healing in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

  • Editors: Karin E. Sauer, Dieter Brandes, Penine Uwimbabazi, Onésime Nzambimana, Mumbere Ndemo Mbasa

  • Series Title: Edition Centaurus - Perspektiven Sozialer Arbeit in Theorie und Praxis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42447-3

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-42446-6Published: 03 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-42447-3Published: 02 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2569-958X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2569-9601

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 273

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Work, African Culture, Memory Studies, Ethics and Values in Social Work

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