Transforming ViolenceLinking Local and Global Peacemaking edited by Robert Herr and Judy Zimmerman Herr |
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"This book builds on the long experience with local and global strategies for peacemaking and can therefore serve as an important resource for all who want to help build a culture of peace."
-Konrad Raiser, General Secretary, World Council of Churches
How do Christians think about peacemaking in a new millennium? What can we do about ethnic and religious conflicts? How can we create peaceful communities and influence the world system?
Noted writers from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America tackle such questions. Drawing on rich traditions and experiences, they ponder peacemaking in local and global settings through stories of real people and their work. Stories like these can anchor us in the life of the church as it is experienced, through times of hope and optimism as well as through fears and crises. This is practical peacemaking at work.
Today the emphasis is on the need to build a just peace in direct and tangible ways. The large issues and threats are still with us, but our response is led by the stories of communities mobilizing to resolve problems through immediate and direct participation.
This book is a gift from Fellowship of Reconciliation and the historic peace churches (Mennonites, Brethren, Quakers) to the world church.
A Herald Press (Pandora Press U.S.) Book.
About the Editors
Robert Herr and Judy Zimmerman Herr, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, are Directors in the Peace Office of Mennonite Central Committee. They have published articles and papers related to their MCC work and peace interests.