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Conflictandpeacecentralafrica

April 18, 2006

Conflict and Peace in Central Africa

In this event co-sponsored with the Woodstock Theological Center and the Georgetown Jesuit Community, Ferdinand Muhigirwa, SJ, examined the underlying sources of conflict--actual and potential--in Central Africa's Great Lakes Region (which generally includes Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda). Those sources include social and ecological conditions, HIV/AIDS, and patterns of economic exploitation. Securing a sustainable peace in the region, Muhigirwa argued, requires a shared commitment to basic human dignity, the promotion of moral and religious values, democratization, and economic justice.

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Ferdinand Muhigirwa

Ferdinand Muhigirwa

Rev. Ferdinand Muhigirwa, SJ is the Director of the Center of Study for Social Action (French acronym CEPAS) in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He also teaches philosophy at the Jesuit Faculté St. Pierre Canisius in Kimwenza, and he was a Berkley & Woodstock Visiting Jesuit at Georgetown in 2005-6. He joined the Jesuits in 1978 and was ordained a priest in 1992. Muhigirwa has been an HIV/AIDS activist and in 2002, while coordinator of the Jesuit Social Apostolate in Africa and Madagascar, he published a letter on the problem. He is the author of The Two Ways of Human Development According to Bernard Lonergan: Anticipation in Insight (2006). Muhigirwa earned an MA in Philosophy at the University of Lubumbashi, a Masters of Theology at the University of Toronto, a Licentiate of Sacred Theology at Regis College, and a PhD from the Gregorian University, Rome.

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Ferdinand Muhigirwa

Ferdinand Muhigirwa

Rev. Ferdinand Muhigirwa, SJ is the Director of the Center of Study for Social Action (French acronym CEPAS) in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He also teaches philosophy at the Jesuit Faculté St. Pierre Canisius in Kimwenza, and...