Eric Ndushabandi is Director of the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace, IRDP is an independent think tank and peacebuilding organization that focuses on three areas of intervention: Peacebuilding and Peace Education, Governance, and Socio-economic Development. He also teaches Political Science at the University of Rwanda. Today IRDP is engaged in extensive work on community healing and social cohesion through community dialogue and Youth Clubs. His research encompasses memory policy in post conflict societies, democratization processes, public policy analysis, reconstruction (state-building and nation building perspectives), and conflict transformation. Eric is Co-I of AHRC GCRF Network Plus Changing the Story.