Elisée Rutagambwa SJ, PhD

Elisée Rutagambwa SJ, PhD

Social Ethics

Biography

Education

  • BA., Undergraduate Philosophical studies, St Peter Canisius Institute of Philosophy Kimwenza, Kinshasa.
  • MA., Graduate philosophical Studies, Catholic University of Kinshasa.
  • BA., Undergraduate Theological Studies, Hekima College, Nairobi, Kenya
  • STL., Graduate Theological Studies (Social Ethics), W J S T (Cambridge, MA, USA)
  • Summer Certificate Course in Peace Studies and Conflicts Transformation, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA
  • Ph.D., Doctoral Studies in Moral Theology (Social Ethics), Boston College, MA, USA.
  • Summer Certificate Course in Community Orgazing, Los Altos, San Jose, CA, USA.

Publications

  • Rutagambwa, E, Uwineza Marcel, & Michel Kamanzi, eds., “Reinventing Theology in the Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hopes,” to be Published by Georgetown University Press.
  • “The Politics and Ethics of Memory, Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Context,” In Orge Burgueño López [y otros]. -- Primera edición, Conferencia Internacional de reconciliación ignaciana de la crisis y el enfrentamiento a la sanación y el perdón: ¿cómo es posible la reconciliación? (Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Madrid, España: Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2022).
  • “The Role of a Theologian in Genocide Prevention: Theology in Post-genocide Rwanda.” Horizons, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020, pp. 76–89., doi:10.1017/hor.2020.51. Published by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2020, pp. 76-89.
  • “Is Blood Thicker than Faith: Ethnic Violence and Christian Identity in Rwanda,” In Elias O. Opongo, SJ & Paul Bere, SJ, eds., African Theology in the 21st Century: A Call to Baraza, (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2021), 409-442.
  • Between Justice and Reconciliation: Paths Towards Complementarity. » In Practicing Reconciliation, Doing Justice, Building Peace : Conversations on Catholic Theological Ethics in Africa, Edited by Agbonkhianmenghe E. Orobator, SJ, 43-47, Nairobi : Paulines Publications Africa, 2013.
  • The Rwanda Church and the Challenge of Reconciliation. » In The Catholic Church and the Nation State : Comparative Perspectives, Edited by Paul Christopher Manuel, Chap. 10, Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2006