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What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

Conflict context in Burundi and Great Lakes Region in general
I have a bachelor in comparative literature and I'm a poet
I also published in comparative literature (in french on Aimé Césaire and Tchicaya U Tam'si by the parish publisher Harmattan). So feel relations between my academic field and conflict resolution and I believe I can contribute to African development through improving the way people can understand each other and I do so through my organisation CERC (Study Center for conflict Resolution). I advocate for education hoping that education enhances the way people understand each other.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)

Mr Eric Shima, MPhil, Founder of the Study Center for onflict Resolution (C.E.R.C. in short in french) and has been its first President (2001-2008). He is actually a postgraduate in International Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

CERC focuses at professionalising civil society and people empowerment. It's member-founder of DYSCAC/GL, a platforme of local NGO of Burundi, Rwanda and DRC involved in the regional project, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, ICGLR (www.icglr.org).

Eric Shima member of the board of trustees of DYSCAC/GL, youth cluster, worked much as a conflict manager to facilitate networking of NGOs in Burundi and create DYSCAC nationally and regionaly.
He took part to the whole process of ICGLR and contributed with many inputs like the proposition of a regional language, kiswahili and an ongoing regional project on formal eduacation.
He took part to the two-years project of USAID/OTI, CPRI (Community-Peace and Reconciliation Initiative) as a Master Trainer in conflict resolution and won after that project a certificate of trainer in conflict resolution and negociation from ESSEC/IRENE and WWICS (Woodrow Wiolson International Center for Scholars) that trained him and supervised him on the ground. He mediated cases of local NGOs and teaches conflict resolution as independ consultant in Burundi for International and local NGOs (PADCO, WWICS, CLC, PCP,BLTP, BINUB, Concertation des Scouts des Grands Lacs, ..).

He now has certificates of conflict resolution from US Deprtment of States and MCID (one month training in seven states of USA), CMG of Cambridge (in Burundi), Essec/IRENE and WWICS, a certificate in power of Dialogue of PCP (Public Conversations Project of USA) after a one week training in Burundi and one week practice in community and a certificate of mediator won at Central European University of Budapest (CEU) from Cardozo School of Law and Hamline School of Law of USA after 2 weeks of training.

Eric Shima won an MPhil in International Peace Studies in December 2010 at Trninity College Dublin and a BA in french literature after a thesis presented on the 1st of june2001 in comparative literature on Aimé Césaire and Thicaya U Tam’si ‘s poetry and that is published by Harmattan (Paris Publisher) in june 2008. Today he acts as way international Commissionner of CERC as a volunteer, advocationg for peace and education. While he is studying peace studies at TCD he is researching on comparative literature, and writing poems as well.
This end of the Year an international Network of universal ambassadors of peace, PHILAPAIX based in Geneva awarded him a title of Universal Ambassador of Peace

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise

Burundi
Rwnda
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ireland

What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?

Burundi

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

Independant Consultant in conflict resolution, peace-related issues and Monitoring /Evaluation of Projects. I collaborate with Channel Research in professional evaluation, volunteering for CERC as International Commissionner

How many years professional experience do you have ?

11-15

What is your personal or organizational website?

http://www.harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=auteurs&obj=artiste&...

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.unoy.org

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.transcend.org

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Conflict Mainstreaming, Democratization, Development, Dialogue, Diplomacy, DDR, Education, Gender, Organizational Development, Social Entreprenuership

Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?

Advocacy, Capacity Building, Communication, Curriculum Development, Evaluation, Fundraising, Monitoring, Program Administration, Program Design, Program Implemenation, Research, Qualitative Skills, Training

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

Ownership process Management in multilateral projects
International Conference on the Great Lakes Region as Institution
Peace and Developement in the Great Lakes Region
I am finalising the edition of a book of poetry

If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications

RESEARCH / PUBLICATIONS : Books

1. "Aimé CESAIRE : Cahier d'un retour au pays natal et TCHICAYA U Tam'si : Epitomé, A comparative study" Bujumbura: (216 pages) , L’Harmattan, Paris, june 2008
2. Ownership Process Management in the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). Case of Burundi, TCD/ISE, Dublin, October 2009.
II. Papers
1. The Role of UN in Peacekeeping and its key determinents. Case of Burundi and D.R.C., Paper, ISE, Dublin, May, 2009
2. Importance of Non-govermental Organizations to Development in Burundi. Case of Maison Shalom, Paper, ISE, Dublin, March, 2009
3. Reconciliation rather than accountability ought to be the primary concern in the post-conflict societies. Case of Burundi, Paper, ISE, Dublin, February, 2009
4. Promoting Civil Society for Peacebuilding Effectiveness in the Great Lakes Region, Paper, ISE, Dublin, December, 2008


ARTICLES/CONFERENCES

2. Fora des femmes, des jeunes et de la Société Civile dans le processus de la Conférence Internationale sur la région des Grands Lacs, DYSCAC Burundi, Bujumbura, avril 2006
3. Austin Zeltz and Eric Shima, Les jeux coopératifs, ASB, Bujumbura , 2004
4. Pour une nouvelle approche de gestion des enfants de rue et de la rue au Burundi, CERC,Bujumbura, 2003
5. Partage d’informations sur la situation nouvelle des enfants de rue et de la rue et construction des synergies pour retirer définitivement les enfants de la vie de rue, CERC, Bujumbura, 2004
6. La voix des Grands Lacs, recueil de poèmes 91 pages, inédit et déposé à l’Université du Burundi, Direction de la Recherche
7. «Question de narrateur/auteur et d’histoire/fiction dans le Baobab fou de Ken Bugul" narrator / author and history / fiction in Le Baobab fou of Ken BUGUL" at Burundi University July 10, 1999 and University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2001 adapted the theme of the symposium as « Pratique de la fiction en langue non africaine et le poids de l’histoire dans la littérature néo-nègre; cas de Le Baobab fou de Ken Bugul»
8. "Involving of Bujumbura North Area Youth in Setting up peace in Burundi”; case of CJK (Centre Jeunes Kamenge)" (24 pages), a contribution to Tebtebba Foundation ‘s Conference on Indigenous people, Manila Dec 2000