Dr. Mauwa Kimanu Joséphine

Dr. Mauwa Kimanu Josephine is an activist, educationist, and administrator. She has worked at private institutions for 15 years, and she has been involved in social activity for roughly five of those years. She is an associate professor in the departments of peace and conflict transformation at the faculty of social sciences and Old Testament studies at the faculty of Protestant theology, at Université Évangélique en Afrique-UEA (Evangelical University in Africa). The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC), Bukavu is home to the university. In other words, she is both a theologian and a peacemaker. She is a lecturer in the fields of climate change, gender, peace, and administrative sciences. In addition to her education accomplishments, she has numerous certificates from prominent universities including the Swedish Theological Institute in Israel, the University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica, the Catholic University of Cameroon in Cameroon, Ain Shams University in Egypt, and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the United on gender, human rights, peace, and climate change-focused sustainable development. She leads a Peace Centre, the Centre de Paix Junneuf, where she works as an administrator. The DRC-based Centre focusses on strategic peacebuilding, which encompasses the 15 strategic peacebuilding sectors. She has completed numerous community service projects through the Centre. Aside from that, she has advocated for gender equality and victims of war in Southern Africa by holding conferences, holding workshops, and disseminating academic papers. She has written a number of academic publications as well. Dr. Josephine belongs to a regional network in Africa’s sub-Saharan area. She belongs to the Southern Africa Migration Network (SAMIN), which focusses on migration-related issues in Southern Africa, including socioeconomic difficulties, conflicts, and climate change. She is a member of SAMIN’s steering committee. She also participates in the African Union-led Southern Africa Partnership for the Prevention of Conflicts. She leads the Congolese team for the African Union’s Africa report. She received an award for being the best reporter in the field of conflict prevention in Southern Africa. In addition, she has been travelling to several continents for educational events such as conferences, workshops, trainings, and research. In the DRC’s west Kassai province, in the city of Kananga, Dr. Josephine was born in 1983. She is the eldest of eight children born to Kabeya Emedi Cosmas (Khedy) and Mayani Poyo Marie-Julienne.