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War Peace Reconciliation - SuSe 25
International Interdisciplinary Lecture Series:
The aftermath of wars and violence and the work for peace and reconciliation
New Date: July 17th 2025 6:30pm CEST
The lecture has been postponed "on the spot" when on May 8th, 2025, 6.12pm white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel chimney.
Dr. Joachim Oepen, Church historian, archdiocese of Cologne
"Wir gewähren Vergebung und bitten um Vergebung" ("We forgive and we ask for forgiveness")
The Correspondence between the Polish and German Bishops in 1965 – A Milestone of Reconciliation in Europe
When wars are ended, the wars are not over. Their consequences are manifold, the material and economic ones maybe the easiest ones to deal with. Physical, psychological, social and spiritual wounds and devastations espcially among the military and civil populuations continue in manifest and latent ways, also across the generations. They have serious impacts on the whole of societies, political systems, health care and social welfare. War consequences challenge and undermine processes of peace and reconciliation in spite of the needs and willingness for new beginnings after war.
In an open, international and interdisciplinary series of lectures, experts from different countries and post-war societies as well as different scholarly disciplines and political roles are invited to offer their experiences and insights as well as practice and strategies for coping with, and healing of material, somatic, psychological, social and spiritual wounds of war and violence.
This series is a cooperation of the Girubuntu Peace Academy, an initiative of the Chair of Caritas Studies (www.caritas-science.eu) at Freiburg University together with Rapred Girubuntu e.V., together with Ackermann-Gemeinde and the Baden-Württemberg - Burundi cooperation’s cluster on Peace Building Initatives and Peace Research.
The Lecture Series will be held exclusively in English
Previous Lectures:
Dr. Orest Suvalo, Executive Director Institute of Mental Health, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine:
The impact of the Russian war on the lives and mental health of the Ukrainian people. What can the public health system do about it?
Prof. Dr. med. Leon Mutesa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rwanda, Kigali:
Intergenerational transmission of epigenetic effects and PTSD: The case of Rwanda after the genocide against the Tutsis.
Prof. Dr. Spiro Janovic, Ministry of Croatian Veterans, State Secretary:
War traumata and other consequences in Veterans and their families after the war in Croatia: What is helpful?
Prof. Dr. Alma Dzubur-Kulenovic, Clinical Center Sarajevo University, Clinic of Psychiatry, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The impact of war experiences on individuals, families and society in Bosnia today. Perspectives of a researcher and practitioner in mental health. (title to be confirmed)
Prof. Dr. Heide Glaesmer, Deputy Chair, Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Leipzig
In the shadow of war - Long-term psychosocial and health sequels of World War II trauma in the German elderly
Prof. Dr. Ari Sitas, Director of Institute of African Alternatives, Cape Town
Have we Lost our Moral Compass?: The Ethic of Reconciliation in Crisis...
Christina Pauls M.A, Chair of Political Science, Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Augsburg
Trauma in the genes - an incurable diagnosis? On the "heritage" of Russian Germans
PD Dr. Maggie Schauer, Psychotraumatologist, University of Konstanz & vivo international
Treatment of Multiple and Complex Traumatization in Post-War Communities - A Joint Approach of Testifying and Healing: Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)
H.E. Simon Ntamwana, Archbishop emeritus (Gitega, Burundi)
Challenges and opportunities for peace in Burundi and the Great Lakes region of Africa and the reconciliation work of the "Apostolic Work New Life for Reconciliation”
PD Dr. Wolfgang Wöller, Teaching analyst and trauma therapist, EMDR-Supervisor
Resource-oriented Trauma Therapy in Post-War and Conflict Regions
Joseph Akilimali, Peace builder, e.g. as Executive Secretary of the Youth for Peace DRC platform
Born and grown in War : How young people in the Great Lakes region are working for peace despite the war.
Upcoming lectures (Registration for every Lecture separately after the previous one)
On July 3rd, 2025,
Sofija Todorovic, Director of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Serbia
Building peaceful future: The aftermath of the wars that followed dissolution of Yugoslavia
Register for the lecture on July 17th (Oepen):