2019 -2022: Dean of the Faculty of Development Studies in PIASS
2008 -2022 : Lecturer at Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences
2010- 2011 & 2013 : Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
2009- 2013: Vice-president of PIASS General Assembly
2007 - 2010: Supervisor of Protestant schools in Karongi and Rutsiro districts
1995 -1997: Secondary school teacher
1993 -1995 : Primary school teacher
In Pastoral Ministry
2019 -2022: Coordinator of the Center for Training and Documentation of EPR (CFD)
2014 - 2019 : President and Legal Representative of Gitarama Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda (EPR Gitarama Presbytery) and chairperson of the Executive committee of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda.
2010: Member of the Joint Action Forum committee and the Vice-president of Unity and Reconciliation committee in Karongi District
1999- 2019 :Church Minister within the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda (EPR) where I have served as pastor of different parishes, head of Synod regions and members of different commissions and organs within the church (executive committee, Chairperson of the Synod Council of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda, member of pastoral, educational, medical and church growth commissions ).
Research Interests
Christian approaches to peacebuilding
African theology of reconciliation
Church governance
Cultural anthropology
Worship studies
Disaster rituals
Conflict analysis
Conflict sensitive development
Projects
2022: Building social capital in higher leaning institutions: Exploration of cultural similarities and differences (Ongoing research project)
2021-2022: Grassroots experience of memory, healing and reconciliation (Ongoing research project)
2015: Peace and conflict sensitivity assessment of Ngoma Community Development Project (Kamonyi District). Consultancy report submitted to Good Neighbors/ Rwanda on 16 June 2015 (32 pages).
2009: Translation and adaptation of a Sunday school book from French to Kinyarwanda (see Jaap van der Neut : Nyereka inzira: Amategeko yadufasha ate kubaho mu mudendezo? eSeLeR (Support a la promotion de la literature au Rwanda), Soest, Pays-Bas (152 pages).
Conferences: Presentations & Facilitation
Restorative Justice And Reconciliation In Post-Genocide Rwanda: Analysis of the Contribution of Participative Justice "Gacaca“ in Restoration and Consolidation of Interpersonal Relationships ( PIASS Winter School, January 25, 2016 )
I am because you are: cultural perspective of peacemaking in post-genocide Rwanda (at Pittsburg Theological Seminary, September 2019).
Church growth in Rwanda: Ideas and methods used by the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda
Genocide commemoration and restoration of relationships in Rwanda (PIASS research seminar 26 June 2019)
2017-2022:PhD student at Protestant Theological University (PThU) in the Netherlands
2012-2013(graduation in 2015):Master’s Degree of Arts in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation from the Center for Conflict Management of the University of Rwanda
2002-2005 :Bachelor’s Degree in Protestant Theology from the Faculty of Protestant Theology of Butare (FTPB)
1998-1999:Diploma in Protestant Theology from the Faculty of Protestant Theology of Butare (FTPB).
