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Integration: What is the Value-Added of Peacebuilding
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Integration: What is the Value-Added of Peacebuilding

A short description of the contribution of peacebuilding frameworks, lenses, skills, and imaginative potential in different contexts.

2005
Sam Doe
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Sam Doe

A story of Liberia peacebuilder Sam Doe's journey to participate in Eastern Mennonite University's Summer Peacebuilding Institute.

A Story from Colombia: We Have Decided To Think For Ourselves
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A Story from Colombia: We Have Decided To Think For Ourselves

A story about courageous leadership in the area of La India in Colombia.

2005
A Story from Ghana: I Call You Father Because I Do Not Wish to Disrespect You
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A Story from Ghana: I Call You Father Because I Do Not Wish to Disrespect You

A story of an encounter admist the escalation of conflict in Northern Ghana that shifted the future unfolding of conflict, perhaps planting the seeds that avoided a civil war.

2005
A Story from Wajir: How a Few Women Stopped a War
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A Story from Wajir: How a Few Women Stopped a War

A story of the women of Wajir who initially set out to assure a safe market and ultimately stopped a war.

2005
Conflict Transformation and the Health Care Worker
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Conflict Transformation and the Health Care Worker

An article exploring the role and potential contributions of health care providers in a conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

2000
Unmasking Evil: Religiously Motivated Peacebuilding and the Challenge of Terror
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Unmasking Evil: Religiously Motivated Peacebuilding and the Challenge of Terror

A draft paper written for presentation at the First Annual Catholic Peacebuilding Network Conference held in 2004.

2004
Reframing a Conflict
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Reframing a Conflict

A diagram illustrating the process of reframing a conflict to arrive toward solutions that hold potential to meet all concerns.

2000
The Mediator’s Cultural Assumptions
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The Mediator’s Cultural Assumptions

A brief article clarifying how North American definitions of mediation may produce crucial points of tension when directly exported to other cultures, as well as suggesting factors for mediators to consider when moving between different cultural settings.

2000
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