Jean-Pierre Karegeye is the director of the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center in Rwanda, and currently a visiting scholar in the department of philosophy at Dickinson College, USA. His areas of research and teaching are mostly based on literature and literary theory in dialogue alongside other disciplines such as social ethics, linguistics, African philosophy, African theology, and genocide studies. His work on genocide and child soldiering focuses on testimony and explores both fictional and non-fictional narratives. Many of Jean-Pierre's current projects explore how genocide and mass violence in Africa imply a reconstruction and relocation of social sciences and humanities. His publications include L'Eglise catholique à l'épreuve du genocide (2000), Rwanda: Récits du génocide, traversée de la mémoire (2008), Children in Armed Conflicts (2012), Rwanda's Paradox of remembering and Suffering (2012), Ruanda: de la literatura post-genocidio o el dialogo entre testimonio y compromise (2012), Religion, Politics, and Genocide in Rwanda (2012), and La critique africaine à l'épreuve du genocide (2017). Jean-Pierre has Bachelor's degrees in African linguistics, philosophy and theology as well as Master's degrees in social ethics from Santa Clara University, and in French, from the University of California, Berkeley. He also has a Ph.D. in Francophone literature from the University of California, Berkeley.