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1. ORIGINS AND YOUTH Gérard NDUWAYO was born in MUSIVYA, GISOZI commune of MWARO province, on September 10, 1962, the eldest of six children. He is the son of Salvator NDUWAYO and CalinieKARERWA. He started his primary studies in Kibimba in 1967, a year after the advent of the Republic. In 1971, he will study 6th year in Muyange. After the events of 1972, he remakes the 6th year which he passes during an interdiocesan test of Mutumba. He was among the top ten of the class, on the end of year bulletins. He received the sacrament of confirmation in Kibumbu in 1972 by the White Fathers who came to Kibimba and Muyange once a semester for the Eucharistic celebration. At home, Gérard NDUWAYO looked after the cows and took care of the housework. From a young age, he had a passion for reading, he read the articles published by Catholic Journal NDONGOZI. In 1974, he was directed to the Lycée Notre Dame de Gitega which he finished in 1981.He is married and father of 6 children [1]. He spoke 4 languages: Kirundi, French, English and Kiswahili.

2. UNIVERSTIARY AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION In 1982 GérardNduwayo joined the University of Burundi in the history department. He holds a bachelor's degree in history, a postgraduate certificate in International Relations and a postgraduate degree in fundamental rights [2].

3.DIPLOMATIC CAREER Ambassador Gérard NDUWAYO is a diplomat by training and profession. At the end of International Relations Studies, Gérard NDUWAYO was appointed on May 4, 1987, Advisor to Presidential Protocol with the rank of Director General by the President BAGAZA, and he remained in this post when Major BUYOYA took power in September 1987. assumed the role of Deputy Head of State Protocol and wrote diplomatic notes during presidential trips to the Great Lakes Regions, during the Organizations of the African Unit of La Francophonie in Dakar, the France Africa Summit in Cassablanca or during official visits to China, Japan and North Korea [3]. Back in 1996, he was appointed Adviser to the Cabinet of Ministers Munyembari and ThérenceSinunguruza. In 1997, Gerard NDUWAYO was appointed Director of Communication and Spokesperson for the Minister of External Relations. It was during this period that he did diplomatic internships in 1997 at the Diplomatic Institute in Cairo. And in 1999, an internship in Paris at the International Institute of Administration and Publication where he obtained a certificate in communication and diplomacy. It was during the Kosovo War when the world was wrestling with perceptions of the role of O.T.A.N and O.N.U.

4.NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERTISE Ambassador Gérard NDUWAYO is a well-known expert on the national and international scene. He is an international consultant on issues of peace, security, communication, conflict resolution, governance, mediation and gender. Ambassador Gérard NDUWAYO has worked for various organizations at national, regional and international level. At the national level, this former diplomat held high positions in national politics. It was in this capacity that he took part in the negotiations between the government and the CNDD –FDD for the signing of the ceasefire in 2003, as well as in the talks on the post-transition 2005 constitution [4]. also member of the executive committee of the monitoring commission of the Arusha Accord. After the 2005 elections, he became an independent and led a life of consultant with expertise in mediation and conflict resolution [5]. Gérard NDUWAYO has also worked with national institutions and civil society organizations, and worked as an independent consultant with civil society NGOs in Burundi on the subjects of transitional justice, civil rights and freedom, peace and security, governance, sector reform. security, gender and resolutions 1323, political dialogue and conflict prevention. His interventions have been noticed in Burundi, in the region and at the United Nations [New York], in particular on the challenges of emerging from conflict and stabilization in Burundi and in the region [6] Regionally, he has interacted with African governments through international organizations such as the AU, ICGLR, EAC, UNDP, UNWOMEN, ICTJ, Interpeace, etc [5]. Gérard NDUWAYO played a role of head of mission of a multinational peacekeeping operation during a deployment maintenance exercise of more than 1,100 military, police and civilians from 11 countries in East Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Internationally, Gérard NDUWAYO worked for the development of United Nations Political Affairs as principal advisor in mediation, on a global level in 2012-2013, then in Central Africa in 2014. Gérard NDUWAYO is also a member of the Network of Global Experts who reflect on the Post 2015 Development Agenda.

5. Political career and social life Gérard NDUWAYO has been a well-known upronist for a long time. His activism goes way back to his early youth. Our college of GITEGA in the 1970s and at the University of Burundi in the 1980s, where he was elected as one of the leaders in the successive committees of the youth movement of the UPRONA party. He even represented Burundi in international conferences of young people in Africa and Europe. At the age of 25, he was appointed adviser to the Presidency of the Republic from 1987 -1989 just after his university studies. Gérard NDUWAYO is known in national and international public opinion as one of the spokespersons who marked the communication of political life in Burundi from 2002-2005, particularly in the ceasefire negotiations with the CDD-FDD, the negotiations on the post-Transition constitution as well as during the 2015 electoral campaign [7]. He was also the Permanent Representative of UPRONA on the Executive Council of the Commission for Monitoring the Implementation of the Arusha Accord and worked intensively with the Transitional Parliament in the implementation of the Peace Agreement in even that he interacted with regional mediation teams in Burundi, in particular those of the African Union and the United Nations. Ambassador Gérard NDUWAYO was the president of the communal council of Gisozi from 2015 to 2020. He animated community life and initiated several projects including the construction of a health center on the native hill, in a remote area that had never known public infrastructure since colonization.

6. Candidacy for the 2015 presidential election Gérard NDUWAYO was the candidate of the UPRONA party in the presidential election of 2015 in which he came in 3rd position after Pierre NKURUNZIZA and Agathon Rwasa.He was solemnly invested as a candidate of the UPRONA party on February 28 in front of 8000 representatives of the party from the municipalities from all over the country. On the same day, he announced the main lines of the social project which will be formalized on April 14, 2015 in Bujumbura in the form of a manifesto. The manifesto of change which reassures was the slogan of the candidate. In this manifesto, the candidate unrolls 20 proposals which can be summed up in the following slogan: Together, let's build an emerging Burundi. In this manifesto, the first 4 proposals are Safeguard the achievements of the ARUSHA Agreements, strengthen the tools of good governance and the fight against corruption, creation of a national commission for public debate. The other proposals concerned the economy, the socio-cultural field and diplomacy. In addition, in this same manifesto, the candidate Gérard NDUWAYO was a bridge of honor by showing towards the end the tools for implementing this program, in particular the establishment of an emergency presidential plan for 2015-2017, the performance-based contract and gender mainstreaming in public and private work. Faced with his detractors who accuse him of being a foil for Pierre NKURUNZIZA, Gérard NDUWAYO, defends himself. I ran for the presidential election to put on the table a debate that is close to my heart - that of democracy Consensual in Burundi as enshrined in the Arusha Accord but whose rules of the game are not clearly enough reflected in the constitution current ”[8]

7. Ideas and passion Gérard NDUWAYO is a politician who has a political philosophy based on a consensual democracy. His vision tends to build a happy, peaceful and prosperous Burundi. He is against all extremism and fierce political competition. Two days after the presidential election, this Burundi politician called for "rethinking the political system" of Burundi and set up principles of co-management and put in place sound political principles of the country. [9] He stressed that the governance resulting from the poll of July 21, 2015 should be consensual governance on all sensitive issues such as security, a political system adapted to the realities of the country, justice, land management and especially the conflict over land. For him, this governance should resist extremism from all sides, temper excesses and harmonize relations within communities. [9] Ambassador Gérard NDUWAYO has main pressures: optimism and enthusiasm. For the first, you should know that any problem, there are two or 3 tracks of passions. And the second is this ability to do everything in a good mood and with determination [10].

8. MEMORIES 1. The role of youth movements in the political life of Burundi from 1960-1967, 1985: undergraduate thesis at the University of Burundi 2. Evolution of Burundi's foreign policy 1966-1986. Post-graduate thesis in International Relations, at the Center for the Study of International Relations in Gitega in 1987 3. The dilemmas of transitional justice in Burundi {1993-2006}, 2006, Postgraduate thesis at the University of Nantes.

Notes and references 1. “In all intimacy”, the program on Radio RPA, when Gérard NDUWAYO is invited to introduce himself and present his social project for the 2015 elections 2. By the fireside, interview given on 05.10.2019 to Journal Iwacu 3. The Facebook page of Ambassador Gérard Nduwayo 4. Ibidem 5. Renewal, Bio express 2015 6. Same 7. The author's interview with Gérard NDUWAYO in September 2020. 8. IWACU, Gérard NDUWAYO, alias “Kissinger”, March 17, 2015. 9. JeuneAfrique, presidential in Burundi, who are the candidates against Nkurunziza, July 9, 2015. 10. IWACU, Au coin du feu FROM 05.10.2020

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