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Léocadie Lushombo, is a consecrated woman, member of the Teresian Association (Institución Teresiana), Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology/Santa Clara University and a visiting professor at the Catholic University of the Congo. She earned her PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College (USA) and completed master’s degrees in Theological Ethics at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, in Sustainable Development at the Universidad Pontificio Comillas in Spain, and in Economics & Development at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Cameroon.  Lushombo’s research focuses on Catholic social teaching, just peace virtue-based approach, gender-based violence, and women’s political participation, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa.

She recently published, A  Christian and African Ethic of Women’s Political Participation: Living As  Risen Beings, (Rawman & Littlefield, 2023); “Fratelli tutti: Toward a Community of Fraternity with the Wounded Women,” (Journal of Catholic Social Thought,  2022); “The Politics of Forest Conservation: Ethical Dilemmas and Impact on Peacebuilding” (Concilium, 2021), “Virtue-Based Just Peace Approach and the Challenges of Rape as a Weapon of War…”, (Georgetown University Press, 2020);  “Rape-Weapon of War: A Crime of War and A Crime Against Humanity Contemporary Challenges to Peace and Justice in Rwanda and the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” (Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, 2019); “Rectifying Political Leadership through a Just Peace Ethic,” (Journal of Moral Theology, 2019), and “Christological Foundations for Political Participation: Women in the Global South Building Agency as Risen Beings,” (Political Theology, 2016).

She has given lectures at Boston College, Notre Dame University, Catholic Theological Union, and St. John University and has extensively worked as a researcher and Consultant-Trainer in justice, peace, and gender issues in the Great Lakes Region in Central Africa and in Peru. Her interdisciplinary experiences and studies inform her teachings and writings.