On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and
coinciding with the intensification of violent attacks on the civilian
population in the East Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo,
scholars and students from Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Kenia, Cameroon, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and
Switzerland joined together in Rwanda to discuss the topic "Overcoming
violence." This volume is a documentation of the lectures of this
conference, organised by the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social
Sciences (PIASS) in Butare, the Presbyterian Church of Rwanda (EPR), and
the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB).