Peacebuilding

Social Cohesion

We bring together genocide survivors and perpetrators and assist them with welfare opportunities in various peacebuilding, solidarity, cohesion, and collaborative, holistic development initiatives. However, as our the ministry has developed, those opportunities have grown to support healing survivors and perpetrators that we encounter outside the bounds of the RCG.
While the heart of our grassroots work is in our RCG, our broader peacebuilding
efforts foster open dialogue and development opportunities in the larger
community as well. All Rwandans may participate without being identified or
separated by ethnicity

   Youth Peace Education

The Youth Peace Education program is designed to reach out to students from high schools and their teachers.

At CARSA, we have been investing in equipping young people with knowledge and skills to: collaboratively resolve and transform conflicts, transcend prejudices and false divisions by challenging old mentalities, and celebrate differences. Youth in CARSA’s programs learn to work for a united and reconciled Rwandan society. Peace education is implemented through various initiatives such as training, genocide memorial visits, conferences, arts, and sports for peace. CARSA is empowering youth with the needed skills for them to become agents of peace in their schools, families, and the community at large.

Peace Conversation Circles

Through this initiative, youth are equipped to carry forward the vision of a peaceful and united society. This initiative partners with schools in CARSA’s ministry locations to empower Rwanda's next generation to be key agents in the work of peacebuilding. By bringing together young people, genocide survivors, perpetrators, and rescuers (Abarinzi b’Igihango), these circles create a space for youth to intimately and personally engage with the true history of the genocide. It is a space to ask hard questions and reflect on the past, developing a strong moral character that internalizes the power of forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation