PARTICIPANT INFORMATION BURUNDI Africa Network for Peace, Reconciliation, and Sustainable Development Rev. Déogratias Maruhukiro Fr. Déogratias Maruhukiro was the Director of the Center for Schoenstatt Fathers at Mont Sion Gikungu (Bujumbura, Burundi) from 2006 to 2011, where he initiated the Maria Arafasha Foundation, a foundation that is engaged for the promotion of Peace and Reconciliation. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Fr. Maruhukiro is the founder of the Africa Network for Peace, Reconciliation, and Sustainable Development (RAPRED-Girubuntu). (
[email protected]) CAMEROON Catholic University of Central Africa Prof. Claude-Ernest Kiamba Claude-Ernest Kiamba holds a PhD in political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Bordeaux. Former Electoral Adviser to the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast and former Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Communication and Relations with the Parliament of Congo-Brazzaville, he is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Management of the Catholic University of Central Africa, where he assumed responsibilities as director of the master’s program in Governance and Public Action. (
[email protected]) CANADA St. Paul University Dr. Jean-François Rioux Jean-François Rioux has been a professor in conflict studies at Saint Paul University in Ottawa since 2002. After his Ph.D. in political science from Carleton University, he worked for the Canadian government and as a consultant in the field of nuclear arms control. After that he was Director of Research at the Raoul-Dandur and Chair of the University of Quebec in Montreal. At Saint Paul University, he has been the director of the School of Conflict Studies, and he now leads the Center for Research on Conflict.