Since 2018, Catherine Mambiko Nyabita has been working as a research assistant at the Center for Criminology and Social Pathology (CCPS), attached to the School of Criminology at the University of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She holds a degree in clinical psychology from the University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN) and another specialization in criminology from the University of Lubumbashi. She is currently a doctoral student at the Institute of Religious Studies (IER). As a researcher at the CCPS, Catherine Mambiko Nyabi participated in three research studies on urban youth violence (kuluna) in Kinshasa, resulting in two publications with l'Harmattan in 2017 and 2019, under the following titles: Urban violence and police response in Kinshasa (DR Congo): Sense and nonsense; Puzzle of urban violence exits in Kinshasa (DR Congo). In 2018, she assumed the role of Coordinator in charge of data for the psychosocial commission within the General Coordination of the response to Ebola Virus Disease in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the past eight years, Catherine Mambiko Nyabita has been interested in the issue of urban youth violence (kuluna) in Kinshasa, adopting a qualitative approach. Currently, she focuses her research on the problem of gender-based violence, through widowhood rites in the Democratic Republic of Congo.