National Conference on Societal Healing in Rwanda
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18 May 2023
How a holistic societal healing programme has strengthened mental resilience, reconciliation, and livelihoods in Rwanda
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The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda left the country with tremendous consequences for mental health, social cohesion, reconciliation, and socioeconomic development. The Government of Rwanda and its partners have made efforts to tackle these persisten [...]
Success story 3: Strengthening local capacities for bigger impact
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Interpeace’s Societal Healing Programme in Rwanda aims to strengthen local capacities through training and the development of evidence-based and contextualized tools. Groupe des Anciens Etudiants et Elèves Rescapés du Genocide (GAERG) is one of t [...]
Success story 2: Jean Claude’s story
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The healing spaces/groups created in Bugesera District, eastern Rwanda, as part of Interpeace’s Societal Healing Programme have positively changed the lives of individuals and communities. For example, Jean Claude Rugambage was healed of his trauma [...]
Success story 1: My son is a hero
Type: VIDEO Size: Published: March 16, 2023
Valens Nsanzineza’s story is an inspiration to many young people. As the descendent of a perpetrator of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, he used to live in constant shame, guilt, rejection, and trauma because of his father’s crimes. [...]
Rwanda – Healing the invisible wounds
Type: VIDEO Size: Published: March 16, 2023
From October 2020 – September 2022, Interpeace implemented a holistic peacebuilding pilot programme focused on mental health, social cohesion,reconciliation, and collaborative livelihoods in Bugesera District, eastern Rwanda. The programme supporte [...]
Supporting societal trauma healing in Rwanda – Evariste’s Story
Type: VIDEO Size: Published: February 20, 2023
More than 28 years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Rwandans are still experiencing mental health issues, including deep trauma, depression, and anxiety. In response, Interpeace introduced community-based healing spaces to help decentralise [...]
News
20 February 2023
How Community-Based Healing Spaces are Strengthening Mental Resilience in Rwanda
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In Rwanda, a country that has experienced immense trauma following the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, community-based healing spaces are providing a safe and conducive environment for individuals to strengthen their mental resilience. These spaces help to [...]
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16 December 2022
Official handover of a TVET facility by Interpeace to Rwanda Correction Service RCS
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On November 10, 2022, Interpeace handed over to the Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) training facility and equipment constructed in Bugesera Prison, Eastern Rwanda, as part of its support to prisoner re [...]
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16 December 2022
Empowering prisoners with hands-on skills for rehabilitation and social reintegration
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Adequate prisoner rehabilitation and reintegration is key to maintaining peace and cohesion within and across families and communities in Rwanda, given its tragic past of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Prisoner rehabilitation that takes into co [...]
Rwanda – Healing Journey
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The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda left the country almost completely devastated, with tremendous consequences for mental health and social cohesion. This video highlights the testimonies of Genocide survivors and perpetrators who were able to heal [...]
Female prison officers play a key role in prisons and prisoner rehabilitation
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Women correction officers constitute one quarter of the workforce of the Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS). Alongside their male counterparts, they play a pivotal role in rehabilitating and reintegrating prisoners in the community. However, many challenges sti [...]
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13 September 2022
Rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners in Rwanda as part of trauma healing
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Rehabilitating and reintegrating prisoners remains a struggle in many countries and communities around the world, including Rwanda. In recent years, many Rwandan prisoners, especially those convicted of crimes related to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, ha [...]
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8 June 2022
Mental Health Mobile Clinic: promoting mental health resilience and social cohesion in Rwanda
Type: VIDEO Size: Published: June 8, 2022
On 18 May 2022, Interpeace and the Government of Rwanda launched a Mental Health Mobile Clinic to support national efforts to strengthen a decentralised mental health system. A customized and well-equipped clinic was handed over to ADEPR -Nyamata [...]
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8 June 2022
Mobile mental health clinic: promoting mental health resilience and social cohesion in Rwanda
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Justin Mambo (this is a pseudo), 46, is a retired military officer and a father of four. He resides in Bugesera District, in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. He recognises having mental health issues, including chronic headaches, anger issues and depression ste [...]
Rwanda: Sowing Seeds of Peace
Type: VIDEO Size: Published: January 4, 2023
This video highlights the work of Interpeace and local partners to support the efforts of the Rwandan Government in promoting social cohesion and fostering reconciliation through a Societal Trauma Healing Programme. [...]
Rwanda: Empowering young people to communicate for peace
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Young people have played an important role in pushing a narrative that promotes peace, reconciliation and societal healing in Rwanda, since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Training them to communicate well is key to ensuring that they feel more empowered [...]
Healing the invisible wounds of violence in Rwanda
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Linda* is a mother and wife who lost her family during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. She was 16 years old, when armed men attacked her home in Bugesera, a town in Eastern Rwanda, and brutally killed her parents, siblings and friends. “[...]
Healing Trauma and Building Trust and Tolerance in Rwanda
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Interpeace Peacebuilding in Practice - Paper N. 4
Lessons learned from Peacebuilding Approaches to Psychosocial Support Group Healing in Rwanda 25 years after the Genocide against the Tutsi, trauma healing remains a pressing publi [...]
