Title: Peacemaking: A Community Workbook
Author: Matt Balcarras
This workbook encourages everyday peacemaking around kitchen tables, on the playground and at the PTA, in the pew, and at the poll booth.
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“Our global value of peacemaking is expressed in the Declaration of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples,” says Mennonite World Conference general secretary César García. “How a church in South Korea or…
title: Shalom Sistas
author: Osheta Moore
The practices, great and small, of everyday peacemaking.Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart InterVarsity Press What is the subject? Mending the Divides addresses the topic of peacemaking by…
“That’s impossible! It must be photoshopped,” I said as I looked at an amazing picture in Sagres, Portugal.
Peace Catalysts: Resolving Conflict in Our Families, Organizations and Communities
Author: Rick Love
In recent years, attention to peacemaking has been reinvigorated among North American Mennonite Brethren. Rick Love’s Peace Catalysts is a timely resource for two important reasons.John Siebert is one of four 2013 recipients of the Canadian Mennonite University Blazer awards for alumni of CMU (or its predecessor colleges) who “embody CMU’s values and mission of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society.” Currently executive director of Project Ploughshares, an agency of the Canadian Council of Churches that works to prevent war and build peace, he has also worked in the Canadian foreign service, as a consultant to NGOs, and for the United Church of Canada on the advancement of human rights.