Religious Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Roger B. Alfani, Ph.D. (University of Montreal), is an adjunct professor in the University Core at Seton Hall University and a Resarch Fellow at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations of the same university. His research focuses on the role of religious actors in peacebuilding and the nexus between religion and foreign policy.

• Abbreviations – Acknowledgments – Foreword – General Introduction – Religious Peacebuilding in Goma: A Conceptual Framework – From Missionary Works to Local Churches in Goma – What Kinds of Peace? – A Comparative Analysis of the Catholic, 3ème CBCA, and Arche Churches in Goma – General Conclusions – Index.

“This book is a clearly written and empirically grounded study of the role of churches and their followers in the making of conflict and peace in the Great Lakes region of eastern DRC. Alfani carefully places the views of church members in the city of Goma in North Kivu alongside relevant scholarly and theological accounts of the reasons for conflict and concomitant ways of making peace.”David M. Gordan, Professor of History, Bowdoin College