On April 1 and 2, 2025, Prof. Dr. Kazuyaki Sasaki from the Protestant University of Rwanda (PUR) gave two lectures on the topic of reconciliation work as a guest of the Peace Academy. The first of these events, which was held in cooperation with the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chancellery's "Partner Country Rwanda" department, took place in Mainz and focused on the "Umucyo Nyanza" tailoring cooperative. This is made up of women who survived the genocide of 1994, as well as wives of perpetrators. These women, who once regarded each other as enemies, have now developed into a community. The journey was neither short nor easy. And not everyone was able to walk it. But those who have made it speak today of a "deep sisterhood". The event on the following day took place at the Kaiserslautern campus - in cooperation with "CampusKultur", the central academic institution at RPTU for art and cultural events. This lecture focused on peace education training for reconciliation work in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), which has been the scene of serious conflicts and wars for decades - from the First Congo War in the mid-1990s to the ongoing conflicts in eastern Congo, where the "M23" militia in particular has recently made headlines again. Kazuyuki Sasaki is head of the "Reconciliation in Theory and Practice" training program at PUR, in which students from three countries are trained in practical reconciliation work, which they then mostly carry out for NGOs in the region. However, it has become clear that the challenge of "reconciliation" already begins during the training and between the students themselves.