Mvura Nkuvure: Intergenerational Healing and Community Reconciliation for Sustainable Peace

The Mvura Nkuvure-Intergenerational healing and community reconciliation for sustainable peace” started in November 2018 and builds on more than fifteen years of community-based sociotherapy implementation in Rwanda, results of continuous research and lessons learned. During those fifteen years the sub-foci of the sociotherapy implementation have been adjusted to societal developments in relation to the restoration of a country devastated by the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, especially to the specific needs observed in communities. The overall objective of the Mvura Nkuvure project that started in 2018 and is funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands contributes to strengthening and sustaining a peaceful Rwandan society, through the facilitation of bottom-up, inclusive and trauma-informed reconciliation processes. In the project there is a specific focus on the psychosocial reintegration of (ex-) prisoners, addressing intergenerational genocide legacies that can be perceived as risk factors hampering reconciliation in the long term, and the reinforcement of ownership among local leaders, teachers and communities over the reconciliation process. This activity is an extension of Mvura Nkuvure project, which is implemented by four partners: Community Based Sociotherapy Rwanda (CBS Rwanda), Prison Fellowship Rwanda (PFR), the Anglican Church of Byumba Diocese (EAR Byumba) and Duhumurizanye Iwacu Rwanda.