Peacemaking

John Chamberlin 1-01-2000
Bishop Belo's struggle for freedom in East Timor.
Rose Marie Berger 11-01-1999

The war in Kosovo is over. The question now: How to build peace? Their neighbors in Bosnia might just have the beginnings of an answer.

The Editors 7-01-1999
Excerpt from statement on Kosovo by Sojourners and other religious leaders
Rose Marie Berger 7-01-1999

What lessons for the future can we learn from Kosovo?

Glen H. Stassen 7-01-1999

10 principles for peacemaking in Kosovo.

Leon Howell 1-01-1999
Moving beyond pacifism and just war.

Young people are the keystones of any culture. Youthful energy is needed to get work done in society. We provide new ideas, physical labor, laughter, the human connection to the future and the world community, and the push for reform and change in society.

So, in the United States, why are teen-agers considered nuisances? Why do we have one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world? Why are we spending $267 billion on the military to train youth to kill, and $42 billion on all other education? How can our government claim to provide security when its priorities place young people near the bottom of an expendable pile?

This past January, 17 young adults of many faiths and nationalities came together at Kirkridge retreat center in Pennsylvania for Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Peacemaker Training Institute (PTI), a weeklong nonviolence training program to engage youth in exploring activism.

Our training provided us with the space to get to know other equally passionate young people. At Kirkridge, we met students who have started their own campus groups to address some of the root causes of violence and insecurity: poverty, homophobia, hunger, human rights abuses, and their college’s investments in the military. They have founded their own peer mediation programs, support groups for rape victims, magazines, and peace and justice radio shows.

Karim Douglas Crow 5-01-1998
Muslims and the way of peace.
Jim Hodgson 1-01-1998
Churches meet to seek peace in Chiapas.
Dale Aukerman 1-01-1998
Discipleship is rooted in God's redeeming love
Daniel Berrigan 1-01-1989

Isaiah's Call to the Nations

Danny Duncan Collum 10-01-1987

We are often reminded by students of scripture that the biblical definition of peace, designated by the Hebrew word shalom, means a great deal more than the simple absence of military conflict or physical violence.

Darel Grothaus 3-01-1983

Biblical reflections on Isaiah 8