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From suffering to solidarity : the historical seeds of Mennonite interreligious, interethnic, and international peacebuilding / edited by Andrew P. Klager, foreword by Marc Gopin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : The Lutterworth Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780718844578
  • 0718844572
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From suffering to solidarity.DDC classification:
  • 261.873 23
LOC classification:
  • BX8128.P4 F765 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The roots of Anabaptist empathetic solidarity, nonviolent advocacy, and peacemaking / John Derksen -- The testing of Mennonite peacemaking in twentieth-century Soviet Russia / Walter Sawatsky -- Privilege, right, and responsibility: peace and the North American Mennonites / Royden Loewen -- The beginnings of Mennonite Central Committee and its ministry of peace / Esther Epp-Tiessen -- Historical conditions of Mennonite peacebuilding approaches: global Anabaptism and neo-Anabaptism / John D. Roth -- From resolution to transformation: experience, encounter, and solidarity in the peacebuilding work of Mennonite practitioner-scholar, John Paul Lederach / Janna Hunter-Bowman -- Formative Mennonite mythmaking in peacebuilding and restorative justice / Carl Stauffer -- Mennonites and contemporary human rights / Lowell Ewert -- Mennonite women: making positive peace / Marlene Epp -- Transforming the peacebuilder: building trust and local capacity through containment of ego and cultivation of the inner life / Ron Kraybill -- Called to be snakebirds: Mennonite historical conditions as inspiration for peace work / Virgil Wiebe -- Authentic grassroots conflict transformation in Egypt: interreligious hospitality and the gift of pessimism in Mennonite approaches to peacebuilding / Andrew P. Klager -- Communities of hope: Colombian Anabaptist churches bridging the abyss of suffering with faith / Bonnie Klassen -- Religious violence, peacebuilding, and Mennonites: the case of Indonesia / Sumanto Al Qurtuby -- Remembering a perforated land: strategies of peacebuilding in Palestine-Israel / Alain Epp Weaver -- The Mennonite peacebuilding response to interethnic division in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Fidele Ayu Lumeya -- Overcoming trauma, grievance, and revenge in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo: fostering nonviolent reconciliation efforts / David Steele.
Summary: A collection of essays that explain how the historical experiences of Mennonites and Anabaptists have shaped their modern approach to conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-393) and index.

Introduction -- The roots of Anabaptist empathetic solidarity, nonviolent advocacy, and peacemaking / John Derksen -- The testing of Mennonite peacemaking in twentieth-century Soviet Russia / Walter Sawatsky -- Privilege, right, and responsibility: peace and the North American Mennonites / Royden Loewen -- The beginnings of Mennonite Central Committee and its ministry of peace / Esther Epp-Tiessen -- Historical conditions of Mennonite peacebuilding approaches: global Anabaptism and neo-Anabaptism / John D. Roth -- From resolution to transformation: experience, encounter, and solidarity in the peacebuilding work of Mennonite practitioner-scholar, John Paul Lederach / Janna Hunter-Bowman -- Formative Mennonite mythmaking in peacebuilding and restorative justice / Carl Stauffer -- Mennonites and contemporary human rights / Lowell Ewert -- Mennonite women: making positive peace / Marlene Epp -- Transforming the peacebuilder: building trust and local capacity through containment of ego and cultivation of the inner life / Ron Kraybill -- Called to be snakebirds: Mennonite historical conditions as inspiration for peace work / Virgil Wiebe -- Authentic grassroots conflict transformation in Egypt: interreligious hospitality and the gift of pessimism in Mennonite approaches to peacebuilding / Andrew P. Klager -- Communities of hope: Colombian Anabaptist churches bridging the abyss of suffering with faith / Bonnie Klassen -- Religious violence, peacebuilding, and Mennonites: the case of Indonesia / Sumanto Al Qurtuby -- Remembering a perforated land: strategies of peacebuilding in Palestine-Israel / Alain Epp Weaver -- The Mennonite peacebuilding response to interethnic division in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Fidele Ayu Lumeya -- Overcoming trauma, grievance, and revenge in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo: fostering nonviolent reconciliation efforts / David Steele.

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