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  • Mission
    Because research helps to understand, support, and build.

    Develop and share the most relevant scientific knowledge regarding the psychological health of populations exposed to armed conflicts and intergroup violence.

    Our Mission
  • Observe
    Our Perspective

    Leaders researching the relationship between emotions and cognition in extreme situations. Because a new perspective is necessary for coexistence.

    Observe
  • Understand
    Research Axes

    Each of our studies focuses on psychological health. We provide significant contributions to the development of a rich pool of knowledge in the rapidly expanding research areas of human cognition and trauma.

    Understand
Professeur Eugene Rutembesa

Professor Rutembesa publishes a book on the mental health of incarcerated people in Rwanda

Our colleague, Professor Eugène Rutembesa, has recently published a book with Éditions de l'Harmattan titled Mental Health in Prison After the Genocide Perpetrated Agains…

Data collectors Rwanda

Longitudinal Monitoring of Psychological Health in African Great Lakes regions

The second data collection will soon be completed in the various regions of Rwanda and has just begun in North Kivu. For this new round of data collection, the same parti…

National Report Rwanda Psycavi

National report - Results from our epidemiological study in Rwanda

The Psycavi Observatory is proud to present the results of the first phase of its large epidemiological study in Rwanda. The recommendations presented are aimed at both p…

Autobiographical Memories in Rwanda

Autobiographical Memories in Rwanda

In this new research snapshot, the Psycavi Observatory team gives you a glimpse into autobiographical memory in the Rwandan context. The way humans recall traumatic event…

Photo Jean-Bertrand

A new local coordinator for the Kigali branch

We are pleased to announce the arrival of Jean-Bertrand Mwumvaneza as the new local coordinator of the Kigali branch. He will play a key role in supporting research proje…

Pr. Eugène Rutembesa

Professor Rutembesa Honored at the ISTSS

We are proud to announce that Professor Eugène Rutembesa received the Allwood Award for Excellence in Trauma Services for the Underserved at the 41st annual meeting of th…

Participants who participated to the meeting

Connecting with the communities in Kayonza

On August 13, 2025, the Psycavi team went to Kayonza, in Rwanda's Eastern Province, to share the results of the first epidemiological study with local communities.A strik…

Photo of people attending the event

Highlights from the Dissemination Day in Kigali

One of the main objectives of the Psycavi Observatory is to disseminate knowledge generated by research and to promote its use by policymakers, practitioners, and the gen…

Photos of Psycavi members who attended the Psycavi scientific days

Highlights from the Psycavi scientific days in Dar es Salaam

For the third consecutive year, the Psycavi Observatory held its Scientific Days from August 4 to 7, 2025, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Researchers, students, and members…

when a university defies war

University of Goma: when a university defies war

Observatoire Psycavi is proud to be partners with an institution such as the University of Goma (UNIGOM) which has become a model of innovation and resilience in a zone o…

promo for Dr Jean Ikanga's presentation

AfriBCD Seminar Series: A Call for Shifting from the Western to African Neuropsychology, the African Neuropsychology Battery

In this talk, I will begin by motivating the need to create an African cognitive assessment battery, by broadly examining shared aspects of African culture that differ fr…

Can intergenerational transmission of trauma partially explain low levels of school achievement in Rwanda?

Workshop: Observatoire Psycavi & IRDP

Can intergenerational transmission of trauma partially explain low levels of school achievement in Rwanda?