The PBCI Information & Communications Team is a group of volunteer writers and web designers at PeaceBuilders Community Incorporated (PBCI) who are working from different parts of the globe. Their task is to document all the activities initiated by the various communities and groups belonging to PAR Philippines — a national peace and reconciliation movement doing inclusive development initiatives, social entrepreneurial training, multiplication of effective peacebuilding workers, conflict transformation consulting, and restorative justice processes. PBCI is a community of missionaries who are dreaming and working together for a just, radical, and active non-violent transformation of our beautiful land.
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PAR MOVEMENT SPREADS THROUGH WESTERN VISAYAS REGION OF THE PHILIPPINES
PAR is Peace and Reconciliation. PAR is the heart of our ministry. For the past 10 months, Tala Bautista have been working among pastors, church leaders, and community leaders in establishing a Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) community in the Province of Capiz. It started earlier this year when PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) was invited to …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2017/06/05/par-movement-spreads-through-western-visayas-region-of-the-philippines/
UBC GRAD STUDENTS PLAN TO VISIT COFFEE FOR PEACE
29 May 2016. Dann and Joji Pantoja, founding leaders of Coffee For Peace (CFP) and PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI), met with a group of graduate students from the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), University of British Columbia. This class is led by Dr. Leonora C. Angeles, Associate Professor, SCARP. This class of 9 …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/05/29/ubc-grad-students-plan-to-visit-coffee-for-peace/
OUR COMMUNITY DECLARES ‘RED ALERT’ AS HAGUPIT LASHES AT EASTERN VISAYAS
Introducing “Ruby Hagupit” Typhoon Ruby, now internationally known as Typhoon Hagupit (Tagalog, “lash”), is expected to make landfall on Saturday evening. Forecasts and trajectory reports indicate confusion and disagreementsbetween different weather agencies. European predictions suggest a direct hit on the country, starting in Leyte or Eastern Samar and making its way northwesterly through the central …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/12/05/our-community-declares-red-alert-as-hagupit-lashes-at-eastern-visayas/
PBCI CELEBRATES GERD’S BIRTHDAY
We, at PBCI, are so happy that you are here with us during your birthday, Gerd! ___ Gerd Bartel was the first person in Canada who listened to a dream of doing a church-based peacebuilding mission to the Philippines that would embrace the neighbor, even so-called enemies, with the love of God. A graduate research …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/11/13/pbci-celebrates-gerds-birthday/
PBCI CONTINUES TO JOURNEY WITH THE KALINGA FIRST NATION
Through the visionary leadership of Twinkle “Tala” Alngag Bautista, the Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) movement is being nurtured among the indigenous people in the northern mountains of the Philippines called Kalinga. :: In 12-16 April 2010, Dann Pantoja felt a need to travel to Tabuk City, the capital of Kalinga Province, to get to know …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/09/03/pbci-continues-to-journey-with-the-kalinga-first-nation/
CENTRAL MINDANAO UNIVERSITY INVITES PBCI TO HELP IN CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION
(A field report by Salome Haldemann) These last weeks we have kept bumping into Central Mindanao University (CMU). Our Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Team in Bukidnon has been working with them for a while now, and helped them build a good relationship with the Talaandig people. PBCI Davao met Dr. Maria Luisa R. Soliven (CMU …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/06/27/central-mindanao-university-invites-pbci-to-help-in-conflict-transformation/
MENNONITES SUPPORT CHURCH-BASED DISASTER RESPONSE TRAINING PROGRAM
Pastors and Christian leaders in the Haiyan-affected areas are getting hands-on training in church-based disaster response operations. This program, which is done in partnership with Mennonite Church Canada, Mennonite Central Committee, the Philippine Evangelical Disaster Response Network, and the Peace and Reconciliation Commission of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches is a part of a …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2014/05/17/mennonites-support-church-based-disaster-response-training-program/
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