Christo Thesnaar is from the Department of Practical Theology and Missiology, at the faculty of theology. His focus discipline within Practical Theology is pastoral care and counselling. From this discipline, he is responsible for two-master’s courses on pastoral caregiving from a Dialogical Intergenerational Pastoral Process approach. His research areas are on themes related to reconciliation such as memory, trauma, justice, healing and restitution. He is particularly interest in research from a transdisciplinary approach on the broad theme of reconciliation. He is currently chairing the Unit for reconciliation and Justice at the Beyers Naude centre. He is engaged in research projects with the Jena Centre for Reconciliation. I am also a founding member and councillor of the “The Institute for the Healing of Memories” in South Africa.