{"id":1592,"date":"2011-02-14T17:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T21:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/?post_type=cjp_alumni&#038;p=1592"},"modified":"2014-03-23T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:39:14","slug":"fidele-lumeya","status":"publish","type":"cjp_alumni","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/cjp-alumni\/fidele-lumeya\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidele Lumeya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Executive Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cacpdusa.org\" target=\"_blank\">Congolese American Council for Peace and Justice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2009: <\/strong>We are\u00a0a network of individuals and organizations with different expertise in the field of Conflict Transformation and Development. \u00a0We focus our work on outcomes and make sure that we have verifiable indicators to measure the changes that we want to see in people&#8217;s lives. Therefore, we use the BACKSA approach and teach it to our partners. BACKSA is\u00a0 defined \u00a0as: Changes in Behavior, Attitudes, Conditions of people , their Knowledge before and after, Skills acquired and, Aspiration to evaluate our work.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0 stay away from the \u2018giving the fish\u2019 and \u2018teaching to fish\u2019 approaches but \u00a0focus on \u00a0 \u2018teaching \u00a0to fish and opening the market\u2019. \u00a0This is where peace, justice and development of Congo lie. That\u2019s our raison d&#8217;\u00eatre.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Congolese American Council for Peace and Justice, I was the Dianne and Lillie Foundation&#8217;s Executive Director; worked at Church World Service as Associate Director in charge of\u00a0International Emergency Response; worked as advocate at Refugees International; worked as Independent Consultant and worked with the Mennonite Central Committee in Zambia and Angola from 2001 to 2003.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 I wrote a French-language book\u00a0<em>The Culture of Peace: From Traditional African and Judeo-Christian Perspectives. <\/em>I just finished writing\u00a0<em>The Congo: The Long Road to Peace and Justice<\/em> in which I propose Africa-rooted restorative justice practices as the way to address deep-seated, real issues rather than their symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3188,"template":"","regions":[780],"fields-of-practice":[],"degree":[760],"grad-year":[1154],"class_list":["post-1592","cjp_alumni","type-cjp_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-usa","degree-ma_ct","grad-year-1154"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cjp_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"fields-of-practice","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields-of-practice?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"degree","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/degree?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"grad-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grad-year?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}