Pumla Godobo-Madikizela

Associate professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town, and Senior Consultant for the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town.

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is associate professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town, and Senior Consultant for the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town.

She completed her master's degree in clinical psychology at Rhodes University, and her doctorate degree in psychology at the University of Cape Town. Between 1998 and 2001 she was on an extended research fellowship at Harvard University where was affiliated with: the Radcliff Institute for Advance Research, the Women and Public Policy Program, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the Harvard Divinity School. During this time, she taught at Wellesley College, Brandeis University, and Tufts University.

She is a founder member of Women Waging Peace, a global initiative for women headquartered in Cambridge Massachusetts, whose members work in regions with a history of past and continuing conflict. Gobodo-Madikizela is author of the critically acclaimed book, A Human Being Died That Night: A Story of Forgiveness, which has received several awards.

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