The role of christian women in the process of conflict resolution and peace building in Rwanda. a case study of mothers union, Anglican church, Remera parish

Abstract

This research titled “conflict resolution and peace building in Rwanda” has the general objective to analyse the role of Christian women in the process of conflict resolution and peace building in Rwanda. This objective is supported by specific objectives, namely (1) To examine the role played by Christian women in conflict resolution and peace building process in Rwanda, (2) To examine the challenges faced by women in church in the process of conflict resolution and peace building in Rwanda (3) To evaluate the impact of women in the church in the process of conflict resolution and peace building in Rwanda. In order to achieve these objectives, the research methodology used notably the interview and desk review for data collection. Findings revealed that the conflict resolution and peace building mandate was not clear in maintaining of peace among people in Rwanda.. however are some of this common line of study was to know the responsibility of women in church women in the process of peace building and conflict resolution in the post 1994 genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. Concerning the success or of conflict resolution and peace building in Rwanda, findings show that the job of ladies in the congregation during the time spent harmony building and compromise in the post 1994 decimation against Tutsi in Rwanda. The investigation found that job of the ladies in the congregation in harmony building and compromise assumed a key job in Rwanda in marinating and introducing harmony within the region. The reasons of failure mentioned by the study participants were that conflict resolution numbers were small compared to the number of and peace building they were required to contain. For the existence of conflict resolution and peace building achievements or failure in Rwanda, findings reveal that discovering as indicated by target two summed up utilizing a variable of proposed to break down the difficulties looked by ladies in chapel during the time spent harmony building and compromise in Rwanda. The main challenges highlighted by findings are language barrier within the community & respondents could be busy other were very hard to alive to them because of the pandemic of Covid 19 which have struck the whole world and left us in curfew of not only moving but even keeping social distance from one person to another . This made the researcher use snowball technique for getting data, interviews that take short time and making of specific appointments. The researcher concluded that the influence of women in church had a role and a factor on peace building project institutional management practice aids the peace building and resolution especially xiii where we have implementation of Anglican church in Rwanda where most of women in church played the key factor in peace building and peace reconciliation in Rwanda