Avega agahozo women association on reconciliation and peace building among genocide victims in Rwanda
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2013-01
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Kampala International University.College of Humanities and social science
Abstract
The study intended to establish the relationship between activities of AVEGA
AGAHOZO Women Association and reconciliation and peace building in Rwanda
after the Genocide. The study employed a descriptive correlational, expost facto and
cross sectional survey designs. A sample of 346 respondents was taken. The
questionnaire was used to answer 4 research questions which included; profile of
respondents; degree of activities of AVEGA AGAHOZO Women Association; level of
reconciliation and peace building in Rwanda after the Genocide; and relationship
between the degree of uctivities of AVEGA AGA~OZO Women Association and level
of reconciliation and peace building in Rwanda after the Genocide. Data analysis
was done using frequencies and percentages, means and Pearson's Correlations.
The findings indicated that most respondents (160 or 46.2%) were in middle
adulthood age of 40-59, 126 (35.4%); were females (214 or 61.8%); had a
secondary level of education 95(27.5%), had Bachelor's degree, very few 12(3.5%)
had Masters Degree; 186 (53.8%) were married and 160(46.2%) were singles;
majority had stayed with AVEGOR for more than five years (79.2%); were Catholics
113(38.4%), protestants were 112(32.4%) and Muslims were 101(29.2%); Tutsi
were 208(60.1%) and Hutus were 138(39.9%). The degree of activities of AVEGA
AGAHOZO Women Association was generally very satisfactory (average mean=
3.80). Respondents were also very much satisfied with all social activities (overall
mean= 3.78). Economic and livelipood activities were very satisfactory (average
mean = 3.73). All activities of education and legal were very satisfactory, ( overall
mean =3. 79). The level of reconciliation and peace building in Rwanda after the
genocide was very high ( overall mean=3.27). There was a significant relationship
between the degree of activities of AVEGA AGAHOZO women Association and level
of reconciliation and peace building in Rwanda (r = 0.961, sig. = 0.000). From
regression analysis, all activities taken together had a positive and significant
influence on reconciliation and peace building, contributing over 94% (Adjusted R
square = 0.940). But, regression wise, only education and legal activities (Beta
=0.903, sig. =0.000) had a positive significant inflt.:ence on reconciliation and peace
building. The general and economic and livelihood activities had a negative
influence on reconciliation and peace building. The researcher recommended that
there is a need for AVEGA AGAHOZO Women Association to increase on training
volunteers in trauma counseling who help others from their own villages and cells.
Management should increase home visits to people given assistance, keep on
testing them to ensure an improvement trend, ii ,cre-ase on teaching their staff,
members and volunteers techniques of records management and organize more
workshops and training on entrepreneurship skills. To increase the level of
reconciliation and peace building, management should sensitize people and
encourage them to always help persons from the other group when they have a
need, encourage them to always feel sympathetic whenever they see a member of
the other group suffering and to have feelings that acts of perpetrators should not
make all members of other group bad people and also teaching them to believe that
they all harmed each other, so there is need to forgive and forget and that they are
all equally blamed for what happened.
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Thesis presented to the College of Higher Degrees and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters in Conflict Resolution
Keywords
women, Association, Reconciliation, Peace building