The article posits our engagement in educating, advocating and influencing government policies as peacemaking. It calls us to affirm the fact that devastating effects of violence arising from unresolved grievances, incompatible goals, and contests of power spur us to ponder how our violent world could possibly reflect God’s beautiful handiwork (Gen. 1:31). Therefore, the need to step beyond our comfort zones and consider our roles in this interlocking web of systems that birth catastrophic violence. We can aspire to attain shalom, and “a peace the world cannot give” (John 14: 27; 16: 33, Psalm 122: 6) by advocating for justice, praying for and engaging policymakers, and supporting nonviolent peace work. Published by Brethren In Christ U.S. (Shalom, Volume 43, No. 1, Winter 2023.)
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Changing Systems as Peacemaking Work
Posted by charleyblogging on March 27, 2024
https://charlbiorah.blog/2024/03/27/changing-systems-as-peacemaking-work/
Reflective advocacy, mutual empowerment and capacity building
The article explores Mennonite Central Committee’s model of Advocacy and speaking truth to power, as it works to address the policies and systems that perpetuate poverty and injustice around the world. MCC’s reflective advocacy represents an essential tool of humanitarian relief, development and peacebuilding programming. The model of advocacy motivates the agency of actors with capacities for change and coordinate with local partners to collaboratively influence structures and systems both locally and internationally, in mutuality and accompaniment. Published by Mennonite Central Committee (Intersections: MCC theory and practice quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 3, Summer 2021)
Posted by charleyblogging on March 27, 2024
https://charlbiorah.blog/2024/03/27/reflective-advocacy-mutual-empowerment-and-capacity-building/
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