Making Friends Among the Taliban: A Peacekeeper’s Journey in Afghanistan
Author: Jonathan P. Larson
Understanding what it means to be nonviolent peacemakers has been important to Mennonites for as long as Mennonites have existed.
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A Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) worker in Afghanistan, Glen D. Lapp of Lancaster, Pa., was killed in early August in a shooting incident in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province. While others have died in MCC service from natural causes or accidents, Lapp was the second MCC worker known to have been targeted and killed.
Engaging the military in development and reconstruction in Afghanistan is endangering aid workers and civilian recipients by politicizing the delivery of aid, says Mennonite Central Committee. In 2008, 38 aid…
Delegates to the Mennonite Central Committee Canada annual meeting in Winnipeg have sent a letter to Prime Minister Jean Chretien in an effort to raise concerns about the “war on terrorism”.