ABSTRACT
The challenge of developing the necessary skills to enable educators to transform their curricula and pedagogy to promote peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace-building dispositions, commitments, and capacities in their classrooms goes beyond the University of Ngozi. In Elavie Nduras study, which examines educators professional development needs and opportunities in Burundi, participants ranked peaceful coexistence second out of the twelve professional development priorities that they had identified. Clearly, much work is needed to enhance educator's capacity to develop and implement pedagogies that will advance sustainable peace and development at the University of Ngozi and throughout Burundi. This chapter presents the stories that prove the role education plays in ameliorating the experiences of war, ethnic violence, prejudice, and the like. The poverty became a source of conflict as politicians incited poor people in order to gain power. During the ethnic conflict of 1993, many Tutsis and Hutus committed atrocities and murders in the hills surrounding the seminary.
