Theme: BW-BURUNDI PARTNERSHIP

Baden-Württemberg and Burundi are celebrating the
40th anniversary of their partnership. On the occasion of this anniversary
The organization RAPRED-Girubuntu would like to establish this partnership
which not only the partners at the level of Christian
communities, but also the municipal level.
Interested persons and partnership groups at community and
Parish level are cordially invited to this event.

The Cabaret Buja-BW is a format for informal intercultural exchange between committed people in and from Burundi and Baden-Württemberg. It takes place in various cities in Baden-Württemberg and Burundi and is dedicated to a different topic each time.

The next cabaret is a Meet & Greet with the Burundian musicians AndyMwag, Shabani Ramadhani and Gretta Habonimana as well as the French musician Iradukunda Chris Bellard and the Belgian musician Adelin Niyisumbavyose.

On the occasion of the anniversary year of AMAHORO! The musicians will perform on 20 July at 19 p.m. at the Summer festival of cultures on the market square in Stuttgart.

After the exchange with the musicians, we will go together to the band's performance on the market square in Stuttgart at around 18:30 p.m.

We look forward to your registration at bw-burundi@sez.de (for better planning) or your spontaneous visit.

International Interdisciplinary Lecture Series on “War Peace Reconciliation: The aftermath of wars and violence and the work for peace and reconciliation”

On July 11th, 2024, from 19:00 to 21:00 German Time 

Trauma in the genes – an incurable diagnosis? On the “heritage” of Russian Germans

Christina Pauls MA, Chair of Political Science, Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Augsburg

When wars are over, the wars are not over. Their consequences are manifold, the material and economic ones perhaps the easiest ones to deal with. Physical, psychological, social and spiritual wounds and devastations especially among the military and civil populations continue in manifest and latent ways, also across the generations. They have serious impacts on the whole of societies, political systems, health care and social welfare. War consequences challenge and undermine processes of peace and reconciliation despite the needs and willingness for new beginnings after the war.

In a new, open, international and interdisciplinary series of lectures, experts from different countries and post-war societies as well as different scholarly disciplines and political roles are invited to offer their experiences and insights as well as practice and strategies for coping with, and healing of material, somatic, psychological, social and spiritual wounds of war and violence.

This series is a cooperation of the Girubuntu Peace Academy, an initiative of the Chair of Caritas Studies (www.caritas-science.eu) at Freiburg University together with Rapred Girubuntu eV, together with Ackermann-Gemeinde and the Baden-Württemberg – Burundi cooperation's cluster on Peace Building Initiatives and Peace Research.

The Lecture Series will be held exclusively in English

Previous Lectures: 

Dr. Orest Suvalo, Executive Director Institute of Mental Health, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine:
The impact of the Russian war on the lives and mental health of the Ukrainian people. What can the public health system do about it?

Prof. Dr. Leon Mutesa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rwanda, Kigali:

Intergenerational transmission of epigenetic effects and PTSD: The case of Rwanda after the genocide against the Tutsis.

Prof. Dr. Spiro Janovic, Ministry of Croatian Veterans, State Secretary:
War trauma and other consequences in veterans and their families after the war in Croatia: What is helpful?

Prof. Dr. Alma Dzubur-Kulenovic, Clinical Center Sarajevo University, Clinic of Psychiatry, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The impact of war experiences on individuals, families and society in Bosnia today. Perspectives of a researcher and practitioner in mental health. (title to be confirmed)

Prof. Dr. Heide Glaesmer, Deputy Chair, Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Leipzig

In the shadow of war – Long-term psychosocial and health sequels of World War II trauma in the German elderly

â € ‹â €‹ â € ‹â €‹ â € ‹â €‹ â € ‹Prof. Dr. Ari Sitas, Director of the Institute of African Alternatives, Cape Town

Have we Lost our Moral Compass?: The Ethic of Reconciliation in Crisis…

background objects

The Baden-Württemberg Climate Protection Foundation is currently planning, together with its partner atmosfair, the development of two climate protection projects in Burundi, which are to be qualified as compensation projects through corresponding adjustments (country agreements) and registered in the Gold Standard. Burundi has been a partner country of Baden-Württemberg for 40 years and is severely affected by climate change.

The Climate Protection Foundation can raise around 50% of the financing from its own resources, and around 50% of the financing will be raised through donations from third parties. This is particularly necessary to enable the realization of a project type with a higher degree of innovation in Burundi.

Objective

To implement two types of projects, the Climate Protection Foundation is looking for companies and other institutions that would like to co-finance the projects through donations. For their donations, the companies receive corresponding certificates certified according to the Gold Standard. This gives the donors the unique opportunity to support the development of high-quality, transparent climate protection projects with established partners at an early stage.

Partners

The project is being implemented by atmosfair gGmbH, the best-rated provider of compensation projects in Germany for years. The initiator and co-financier is the Baden-Württemberg Climate Protection Foundation, a non-profit state institution and hub for the topic of CO2 compensation in the state.