Pumla Joins Past Laureates Desmond Tutu and Jane Goodall to Receive One of the World’s Largest Individual Lifetime Achievement Awards.

We are so proud to share the wonderful news that our dear friend and colleague, Pumla, has received this prestigious award. My wife Iris Adler and I will be with Pumla this year at her invitation conducting workshops at her Stellenbosch University center.

Quick bio: Dr. Gobodo-Madikizela is a professor and South African National Research Foundation’s Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest at Stellenbosch University.

At home with Convisero mentor Pumla (link to Trebuchet) holding a gacaca reconciliation bowl from Rwanda (2024).