Your hands’ work feed us, Tiller of the sacred land. May we serve with you? (Lakan Sumulong) 20-22 July 2016. It’s always a privilege to be visited by our farming partners. To pray together. To eat together. To learn together. To share our struggles for justice and peace. To share our lives with each …
Category: PEACE WITH ONE’S BEING
Psycho-social transformation
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COFFEE FOR PEACE INVITES CANADIAN PARTNERS FOR IMPACT INVESTING
Imagine. Coffee For Peace Canada. A group of Canadian investors who see life and reality from the lenses of Peace Theology and are committed to help build justice and peace among coffee farming communities around the world. These are women and men who are convinced to invest in companies like Coffee For Peace that aims …
Permanent link to this article: https://waves.ca/2016/06/17/coffee-for-peace-invites-canadian-partners-for-impact-investing/
I’M AN ANABAPTIST. I MUST NOT BE MILITANT AGAINST MILITANT PEOPLE
Militant. Combative. Aggressive. Violent. Confrontational. Usually for the purpose of advancing a worldview, a value system, a set of behaviors. Mostly visible in religious, social, or political advocacies or programs. We live in a militant 21st century reality. Those who want to make good business in a world at war would like us all to …
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MENTORSHIP IS A HIGH-VALUE ACTIVITY AT COFFEE FOR PEACE
Now happening at the backyard of the office of CoffeeForPeace.Com: Our farming partners from Mount Apo, the Ancestral Domain of the Bagobo Tribe, deliver their Arabica coffee cherries; Nowie Blag and Jose Calaba, PAR (Peace and Reconciliation) Monitors from the Dulangan Manobo Tribe, who also have planted 10,000 Arabica coffee trees in their Ancestral Domain, …
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TO BE AN EFFECTIVE INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT FIELD WORKER
While hiking the mountains of Upper Kalinga, my heart and mind brought my consciousness on how to be an effective Inclusive Development field worker: My main task is primarily to listen to the peoples’ imagination of their realities. In their various languages and expressions, they articulate their present realities (what is) and their future aspirations …
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WE HELPED BRIDGE TOP PCEC AND MILF LEADERS
02 April 2016. Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao — The PeaceBuilders Community initiated the top leaders’ meeting between the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC), led by Bishop Noel Alba Pantoja, and the Central Committee Office of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), led by Chairman Murad Ebrahim. The two bodies discussed how leaders of …
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PARTICIPATING IN A TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE DISCUSSION
Had a great time listening to the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission report of Atty. Cecilia Jimenez. We will use many of their recommendations that we think are readily applicable in our Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) Community development initiatives on the ground through related programs by PeaceBuildersCommunity.Org and CoffeeForPeace.Com. This meeting was dubbed as “Ways Forward for …
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