Overcoming Violence

Challenges and Theological Responses in the Context of Central Africa and Europe

• Publisher: LIT Verlag
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9783643962072
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and coinciding with the intensification of violent attacks on the civilian population in the East Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo scholars and students from Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenia, Cameroon, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Switzerland joined together in Rwanda to discuss the topic "Overcoming violence". This volume is a documentation of the lectures of this conference, organised by the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Butare, the Presbyterian Church of Rwanda (EPR) and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB). Pascal Bataringaya, President of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda. Penine Umimbabazi, Assistant professor of Policy analysis and conflict transformation at the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Huye/Rwanda. Claudia Jahnel and Traugott Jähnichen, Professors at the Faculty of Protestant Theoloy of the Ruhr-University Bochum.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Panel 1: Social Identity Constructions and the "Other". Violence against "Others" / "Strangers" and Theological Reflections on the "Recognition of the Other".
• Panel 2 :Just Peace, Human Rights and Recognition as Basic Principles of Politics.
• Panel 3: Participation as Social and Ethical Ideal
• Panel 4: Violence in Families, against Women and Children: Theological Perspectives of Gender Justice and ChildrenProtection
• Panel 5: Violence with regard to Nature: Theological Perspectives of Preservation of Creation and Social Justice
• Panel 6: Dealing with Guilt: The Relevance of Justice after a Genocide in Education and Daily Life
• Profiles of Contributors