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IFOR and the Nagaland Peace Mission

January 15, 2017 No Comments

Entrance to Nagaland In a recent book on peacebuilding, Thania Paffenholz sets out functions that Non-governmental Organizations can carry out in situations of violent conflict: protection, monitoring, advocacy, public communication, in-group socialization, social cohesion, intermediation, facilitation, and service delivery. (1) In practice some of these functions overlap, or more than one can be carried out at the same time by

IFOR and the Nagaland Peace Mission

January 15, 2017 No Comments

Entrance to Nagaland In a recent book on peacebuilding, Thania Paffenholz sets out functions that Non-governmental Organizations can carry out in situations of violent conflict: protection, monitoring, advocacy, public communication, in-group socialization, social cohesion, intermediation, facilitation, and service delivery. (1) In practice some of these functions overlap, or more than one can be carried out at the same time by

Ferguson Clergy March cred Heather Wilson

Let Peace Break Through All Obstacles In 2017

January 12, 2017 No Comments

Greetings! THANK YOU! You received what may have seemed like a deluge of messages from FOR in the last month as we attempted to meet our year end goals. And you responded. Thanks to your generosity, December support for the work of the Fellowship of Reconciliation nearly doubled over the same month last year. I believe that your response was so

Let Peace Break Through All Obstacles In 2017

January 12, 2017 No Comments

Greetings! THANK YOU! You received what may have seemed like a deluge of messages from FOR in the last month as we attempted to meet our year end goals. And you responded. Thanks to your generosity, December support for the work of the Fellowship of Reconciliation nearly doubled over the same month last year. I believe that your response was so

A Public Call to Protect All People

January 9, 2017 No Comments

The 2016 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have added to the anger, fear and misunderstanding already present in our communities. We refer specifically to the inflammatory and blaming language used by Donald Trump regarding Muslims, Mexican immigrants and women and by Hillary Clinton regarding the Russian government and “deplorable” Trump supporters. The election results require us to

Living in the Spiritual “In-Between”

January 9, 2017 No Comments

We in the West live in a bipolar world, or, rather, in a world which supports a bi-polar way of looking at things. Something is either “this” or “that.” It is either “right” or “wrong,” “left” or “right,” “good” or evil.” Thinking that way makes us do a lot of things, one of which is to either think too much