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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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/
‘COFFEE FOR PEACE’ IS A MAJOR PARTNER OF THE 2013 DAVAO TRADE EXPO
17-19 October 2013, Davao City. Coffee for Peace (CFP) took the lead as the major partner of the 2013 Davao Trade Expo (DaTE 2013) for the coffee industry. The theme of the 15th DaTE was Empowering the Farmer: Engage. Enable. Excite. It is the biggest agribusiness expo in Mindanao and is spearheaded by the Davao …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/10/20/coffee-for-peace-is-a-major-partner-of-the-2013-davao-trade-expo/
THE ZAMBOANGA CRISIS: A CASE OF ‘SHOCK DOCTRINE’ APPLICATION?
The 2013 Zamboanga Crisis did not just happen. While the people were shocked by the seemingly uncontrolled war between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), we see some patterns at work that are similar to various disasters happening around the world. Those observable patterns can be referred to as manifestations of Shock …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/10/03/the-zamboanga-crisis-a-case-of-shock-doctrine-application/
PCEC BISHOP LISTENS TO MILF ON HOW TO ENHANCE CHURCH’S SUPPORT TO PEACE TALKS
Cotabato City, May 14, 2013 — PCEC Bishop Efraim Tendero met with MILF Peace Panel Chairman Mohagher Iqbal this afternoon in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. Tendero asked Iqbal on how the Church can enhance its support to the GPH-MILF Peace Talks. Before answering Tendero’s question, Iqbal gave an update on the current state of the …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/05/14/pcec-bishop-listens-to-milf-on-how-to-enhance-churchs-support-to-peace-process/
BUKIDNON CHRISTIAN LEADERS WELCOME PEACE BUILDERS SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP
Twenty-one people finished the first quarter of the PeaceBuilders School of Leadership (PBSL) in Valencia City, Bukidnon from 24-26 April 2013. They are a group composed of peacebuilders, pastors, church leaders, missionaries and educators. It was designed as highly academic activity with the book “Mediation in Pastoral Care” as the main focus and the books …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2013/04/26/bukidnon-christian-leaders-welcome-peace-builders-school-of-leadership/