Kinshasa, December 23rd, 2025 (CPA) – A grant programme for research into Congolese genocide crimes (GENOCOST) has been launched in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), by a public institution in collaboration with the Inter-institutional Commission for Victim Assistance and Reform Support (CIAVAR), according to a statement consulted on Tuesday by CPA.
‘At the Catholic University of Congo (UCC), Fonarec, in collaboration with CIAVAR, has officially launched the grant programme for research into genocide crimes, massacres, mass crimes and GENOCOST in DRC,’ it is read in the institution’s X account. The same source has reported that through this initiative, final-year students are called upon to examine history, to document crimes and to produce rigorous scientific knowledge in the service of truth, justice and lasting peace.
And it concludes: « Because understanding is already a form of resistance to forgetting. Because seeking is to refuse repetition. Because memory is a path to the collective healing. » CPA/