The question
Healing after mass violence involves more than individual recovery. In Rwanda, linked strands of research through 2025 connect mental health, family relationships, livelihoods, and reconciliation.
The wider societal-healing collaboration involved Interpeace, Prison Fellowship Rwanda, and Rwandaās National Unity and Reconciliation Commission. Its community-based approach brought trauma recovery into conversation with economic resilience and social reintegration, including an earlier pilot in Bugesera.
Research and collaboration
Research in 2022-2023 included framework development, trial-methodology design, and statistical analysis. Workshops and research training in Kigali and Musanze covered data collection, methods, and analysis. Research and intervention timelines were planned in relation to programme implementation.
The published 2025 paper describes the development of Multifamily Healing Spaces, with gender dynamics within families central to the underlying analysis. The development paper is distinct from trial manuscripts; unpublished trial findings are not presented here.
The research thread
The family is a bridge between individual wellbeing and wider social relationships. Multifamily Healing Spaces combine sessions across families and generations with work involving individual families, parents, and young people. The paper explains the interventionās development and principles; it does not establish its effectiveness through an impact evaluation.
For the wider programme context, see SeeDās institutional project description, Societal Healing in Rwanda, and the CO-LIVE protocol summary. These last two are background outputs from the collaboration, separate from the authored publications listed here.