I’ve chosen to tell you of Louise and Emmanuel, who we met this week. As we approached the group under the spreading branches of a thorn tree, I noticed a vivacious woman with a striking face, full of liveliness. We introduced ourselves to the 16 members of Ukuri Kuganze [meaning truth will triumph]. “ Can […]

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Meet some of the People Taking Charge. They’re liberating public parks, urban factories, and all the places in between. http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=2112 http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=2112&utm_source=dec07&utm_medium=

With deep courage, enormous strength and a set of keys, an uneducated woman named Mama Zula Karuhimbi, born in 1915, managed to save the lives of 100 people. She kept them hidden for 67 days during the 1994 ethnic genocide in Rwanda. She offered them shelter in her house in Gitarama, the country’s second-largest city, […]

by Bishop Gumbleton Surely in the life of Franz Jägerstätter, we find someone who was determined to live within the realm of God, the realm of Jesus. Franz Jägerstätter would have nothing to do with the realm of the world in which he lived; where barbarism of the inhuman and Godless system of Nazism prevailed…Franz […]

I met with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, last Wednesday in New York City. Why would I be part of ongoing efforts at “dialogue” with people and institutions that some Americans view as the “enemy”? The branch of Christianity in which I am rooted, Anabaptist-Mennonite, holds that Jesus calls us to offer love and […]

Behavioural scientists have devoted considerable attention to religious extremism and the psychological factors that contribute to an individual’s propensity toward violence. However, relatively little data are available on those who abandon extremism and become proponents of conciliation and peace. Dr. Renee Garfinkel offers a number of tentative conclusions about individuals she has interviewed who have […]

On the eve of the International Day of Peace, some 100 Afghan street children flew kites adorned with doves and olive branches atop a hill overlooking Kabul today, marking the closing stages of a United Nations-backed campaign to halt violence in the war-torn nation. Today’s event, on Nader Khan hill, was one of many around […]

Gladys Staines – nee Weatherhead – was born in 1951. She grew up at Peaks Crossing, just outside of Ipswich, in South East Queensland. Gladys was brought up in Brethren circles and became a devout Christian. After school, Gladys studied nursing in Ipswich and completed her midwifery in Launceston. Gladys met her husband Graham on […]

I am floating a few feet off the ground today even though my plane from Thailand touched down securely last week. The reason for my euphoria: To watch the remarkable progress in the project we are supporting in northern Thailand. I first related the story of Kru Nam in my book, Not for Sale. She […]

In 1994, decades of suspicion and hate erupted into a frenzy of killing in Rwanda, resulting in the death of almost one million people over 100 days. As in all cases of genocide and war, the survivors – both victims and perpetrators – are left with a terrible legacy of loss, pain and shame. In […]

This documentary offers a gripping and powerful picture of the traditional processes that have helped build peace in Bougainville after the civil war. It provides a wonderful complement to the articles in this edition of Restorative Justice Online because it allows the viewer to watch the processes described and explored in those articles. http://www.restorativejustice.org/editions/2007/august07/vrbreakingbows