The 25th Anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda and Healing Traumatic Memories
Notre Dame Professor of Peace Studies Fr. Emmanuel Katongole and Fr. Jean Baptiste Mvukiyehe M.T.S '22 discuss the genocide in Rwanda on its twenty-fifth anniversary, the process of healing from traumatic memories, and more. This episode is one of many conversations recorded during the Kroc Institute’s Building Sustainable Peace Conference in November 2019.
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Meet the Faculty: Fr. Emmanuel Katongole
Fr. Emmanuel Katongole is Professor of Theology and Peace Studies. He holds a joint appointment with the Keough School of Global Affairs, where he serves as a full time faculty of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Before joining the University of Notre Dame (Jan 2013), he served as Associate Professor of Theology and World Christianity at Duke University, and as founding co-director of the Duke Center for Reconciliation. He is founder and President of Bethany Land Institute, a program that works with young people to realize the vision, spirituality and practice of Laudato Si’ in an African setting. Katongole is a Catholic priest of Kampala Archdiocese, Uganda where he was ordained in 1987.
Meet the Speaker: Fr. Jean Baptiste Mvukiyehe M.T.S '22
Fr. Jean Baptiste Mvukiyehe is a Pallottine priest (member of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate) from Rwanda. He worked in interpersonal reconciliation, facilitating the healing of memory through Divine Mercy spirituality ministry for more than ten years. After his MTS in World Religions at the University of Notre Dame in May 2022 and an MA in Christian Spirituality (Creighton University, 2023), he served as the Chaplain at Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken, New Jersey until June 2023.
Jean Baptiste currently pursues his PhD in Theological and Social Ethics at Fordham University. He is interested in intersectional research engaging ethics in international affairs and contemporary Catholic social thought. Areas of focus include “shared identity,” ethnicity, conflict, and peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, as well as issues related to “otherness,” encounter, and migration today.