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Léocadie Lushombo, is consecrated, member of the Teresian Association. She earned her PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College (USA), a Sacred Theology Licentiate Degree from the School of Theology and Ministry/Boston College and completed master’s degrees in Theological Ethics at the Catholic Theological Union/Chicago, in Sustainable Development at the Universidad Pontificio Comillas/Spain, and in Economics & Development at the Catholic University of Central Africa/Cameroon. Lushombo’s research area is Christian Ethics. Lushombo's fields of research and teaching expertise are:

• Fundamental Moral Theology and Methods in Christian Ethics

• Political Theology, Decolonial & liberation theology

• Economics & Catholic Social Thoughts

• African Theological Ethics and Inculturation

• Theology of Peacebuilding and Just Peace Ethics

She takes feminist and womanist hermeneutics, especially in her approach to African and peacebuilding theological ethics.

She recently published African Women’s Liberating Philosophies, Theologies, and Ethics (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024); A Christian and African Ethic of Women’s Political Participation: Living As Risen Beings (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023); “Luke-Acts on the Primacy of Faith Over Evil Civil/Political Commands” (Georgetown University Press, 2023), “African Women’s Theologies” (Cascade Books, 2023), “Fratelli tutti: Toward a Community of Fraternity with the Wounded Women” (Journal of Catholic Social Thought, 2022); “African Women Christology” (Catholic Theological Ethic in the World Church (CTEWC), 2022), “The Politics of Forest Conservation: Ethical Dilemmas and Impact on Peacebuilding” (Concilium, 2021), “Ubuntu et les défis théopolitiques des proverbes sur la femme" dans Cahiers des Religions Africaines presses de l’Université catholique du Congo (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 extensively worked as a researcher and Consultant-Trainer in justice, peace, and gender issues in the Great Lakes Region in Central Africa and Latin America. Her interdisciplinary experiences and studies inform her teachings and writings.