Sustaining Reconciliation in Rwanda
Sustaining Reconciliation in Rwanda is a five year project that aims to help maintain the success of the reconciliation process in Rwanda, and to present the story of those successes to a broader international audience. Driven by directions from our Rwandan colleagues about their needs on the ground, the project involves researchers and practitioners in psychology, health, media, education and information technology delivering programs including delivery of trauma counselling to genocide survivors, training of mental health professionals in Rwanda, and building capacity for recording, GPS mapping, and transmission of survival narratives of genocide sites and village-based justice councils.
One of our main objectives is the dissemination of a broader view of Rwanda not only as a place where infamous atrocities took place but where compellingly positive expressions of reconciliation and renewal can be found.
Hon. Mr. Joseph Habineza, the Minister responsible for commemorating the genocide, meeting a delegation from Murdoch University
Professor Craig McGarty
Craig is the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Societies Education and Politics (Social Research Institute). Craig is one of the world's leading social psychological researchers in the field of social identity. He currently leads a major research project on promoting positive social change including progress toward Reconciliation in Australia. More about Craig
Associate Professor Mick Broderick
Mick is a leading international authority on the representation of disaster in film and in other aspects of culture. Mick visited Rwanda in 2007 with Martin Mhando and interviewed key survivor representatives from Ibuka, SURF and the Kigali Memorial Centre and observed a number of gacaca (community-based justice) hearings. In December 2008 Mick co-convened the international conference, Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering. More about Mick
Associate Professor Martin Mhando
Martin is a senior lecturer in Media Studies. He is a leading feature documentary filmmaker and was the first Tanzanian to be nominated for an Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He directed the 2007 documentary "L'yarn N'garn" that tracks the shared exploration of Australia's reconciliation process by Indigenous leader Pat Dodson, renowned actor Pete Postlethwaite and balladeer Archie Roach. More about Martin
Associate Professor Lance C.C. Fung
Lance is the current Associate Dean of Research at the School of Information Technology, Murdoch University. His research interest is in the development and application of intelligent techniques to solve practical real-life problems. He has been a long time associate and active member in the executive committees of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) at local WA Section, Technical Chapters and Asia Pacific Region. He is a leading authority on the automatic digitization of records, data management, and efficient storage and retrieval of information by intelligent techniques. Lance is also a keen promoter of the use of ICT to foster community equity, transparency and accountability of governance, and to advance understanding and reconciliation.
Associate Professor Kevin Wong
Kevin is an Associate Professor with the School of Information Technology. He is presently the chair for the IEEE Western Australia Section, and the Governing Board Member for Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APPNA). He is also serving as a member for the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC) and Games Technical Committee (GTC) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). His research interests include intelligent data analysis, data mining, and computational intelligence in entertainment computing. More about Kevin
Dr. Angela Ebert
Angela is a clinical psychologist and lecturer. She was the founding Director of the Association for Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASeTTS) in Perth (Western Australia). Angela has run training for working with complex trauma for psychologists and allied health professionals since 1993. More about Angela
Dr Corinne Reid
Corinne is the inaugural Director of Caladenia House, the Godfrey Barrett-Lennard Counsellor Training Centre. This community based training centre is breaking new ground in providing real-world training for students whilst also providing counselling for vulnerable children and adults and has established a video-counselling centre to provide counselling services for clients and allied health staff in rural and remote areas including Indigenous Australian counsellors in the northwest of Australia. More about Corrine
Dr Amanda Third
Amanda is a senior lecturer in the School of Media, Communication and Culture, and Director of the Centre for Everyday Life. She is currently collaborating with Dr Ingrid Richardson on two projects 'Moblogging and Belonging' and social networking for chronically ill and disabled youths. Amanda is a member of the Inspire Foundation's Western Australian Advisory Board; a member of the Technology and Wellbeing Roundtable coordinated by the Inspire Foundation and the Telstra Foundation.
Dr Ingrid Richardson
Ingrid is a senior lecturer in the School of Media, Communication and Culture. She is a leading authority on the cultural and other effects of mobile media, virtual reality, biomedical imaging, technologies for sustainability, and TV and public screens. Ingrid is leading a Telstra Foundation project that aims to build the capacity for high-school students to use the social networking potential of mobile-online media to create a sense of community. More about Ingrid
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