Mark your calendar and register now:
On Thursday, March 21, 2024, join Canadian Jesuits International and the Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace & Justice at St. Paul’s College for a hybrid (online and in-person) event on the politics of resource extraction and education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The event will feature Fr. Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula SJ, Director of the Arrupe Center for Research and Training, Lubumbashi, DRC, and Dr. Evelyn Namakula Mayanja, Assistant Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa.
It will also include Yolanda González, who will provide a brief response highlighting a Latin American perspective on mining and its intersection with women’s rights. ERIC-Radio Progreso is a Jesuit center that supports Honduran community organizations through research, broadcast communications, training, and advocacy in the areas of land rights, social justice, and human rights.
Fr. Toussaint is a Jesuit priest who holds a Ph.D. in Global Politics and International Relations from Loyola University, Chicago. His research interests include social justice, democracy, and peace. He has taught at universities in the USA, Hungary, Kenya, and Kinshasa, DRC. One of the main objectives of the Arrupe Center is to raise awareness and address the social, economic and environmental injustices caused by irresponsible mining practices in Lubumbashi.
Dr. Mayanja’s research focuses on the international political economy of resources, including wars, conflict, and cooperation in the natural resource sector, race, and politics. She is currently researching resource-based wars/armed conflict and the extraction of minerals for green energy, and their impacts on community, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental policies, displacement, and peacekeeping in the DRC.
