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Author:   Andrew P. Klager
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Lutterworth Press
Weight:   0.622kg
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9780718894313

ISBN 10:   0718894316
Pages:   428
Publication Date:   28 April 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Marc Gopin Acknowledgments List of Contributors Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Historical Conditions of Anabaptist-Mennonite Peacebuilding Approaches 1 The Roots of Anabaptist Empathetic Solidarity, Nonviolent Advocacy, and Peacemaking - John Derksen 2 The Testing of Mennonite Peacemaking in Twentieth-Century Soviet Russia - Walter Sawatsky 3 Privilege, Right, and Responsibility: Peace and the North American Mennonites - Royden Loewen 4 The Beginnings of Mennonite Central Committee and Its Ministry of Peace - Esther Epp-Tiessen 5 Historical Conditions of Mennonite Peacebuilding Approaches: Global Anabaptism and Neo-Anabaptism - John D. Roth Part Two: Analysis of the Historically Conditioned Mennonite Peacebuilding Approaches 6 From Resolution to Transformation: Experience, Encounter, and Solidarity in the Peacebuilding Work of Mennonite Practitioner-Scholar, John Paul Lederach - Janna Hunter-Bowman 7 Formative Mennonite Mythmaking in Peacebuilding and Restorative Justice - Carl Stauffer 8 Mennonites and Contemporary Human Rights - Lowell Ewert 9 Mennonite Women: Making Positive Peace - Marlene Epp 10 Transforming the Peacebuilder: Building Trust and Local Capacity through Containment of Ego and Cultivation of the Inner Life - Ron Kraybill 11 Called to Be Snakebirds: Mennonite Historical Conditions as Inspiration for Peace Work - Virgil Wiebe Part Three: Application of Mennonite Peacebuilding Approaches in Conflict Settings 12 Authentic Grassroots Conflict Transformation in Egypt: Interreligious Hospitality and the Gift of Pessimism in Mennonite Approaches to Peacebuilding - Andrew P. Klager 13 Communities of Hope: Colombian Anabaptist Churches Bridging the Abyss of Suffering with Faith - Bonnie Klassen 14 Religious Violence, Peacebuilding, and Mennonites: The Case of Indonesia - Sumanto Al Qurtuby 15 Remembering a Perforated Land: Strategies of Peacebuilding in Palestine-Israel - Alain Epp Weaver 16 The Mennonite Peacebuilding Response to Interethnic Division in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Fidele Ayu Lumeya 17 Overcoming Trauma, Grievance, and Revenge in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo: Fostering Nonviolent Reconciliation Efforts - David Steele Bibliography Index

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Oppression, injustice, suffering, violence are everywhere. So are rays of hope that these plagues may be alleviated, even some day brought to an end. ... I have repeatedly found that Mennonite activists and missions are there on the ground, living and working in solidarity with the victims, and Andrew Klager's fine collection on the Mennonite way of proceeding 'from suffering to solidarity' provides a most enlightening and instructive guide to these impressive contributions, and what we can learn from them. Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, MIT

Oppression, injustice, suffering, violence are everywhere. So are rays of hope that these plagues may be alleviated, even some day brought to an end. ... I have repeatedly found that Mennonite activists and missions are there on the ground, living and working in solidarity with the victims, and Andrew Klager's fine collection on the Mennonite way of proceeding 'from suffering to solidarity' provides a most enlightening and instructive guide to these impressive contributions, and what we can learn from them. Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, MIT [T]his volume is a testimony to the impressive breadth of contemporary Mennonite global endeavour - Egypt, Colombia, Indonesia, Palestine-Israel, Congo, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo - this more than a deep historical analysis, which is mainly to be found in the first few chapters. John Briggs, Baptist Quarterly, 2017

Oppression, injustice, suffering, violence are everywhere. So are rays of hope that these plagues may be alleviated, even some day brought to an end. ... I have repeatedly found that Mennonite activists and missions are there on the ground, living and working in solidarity with the victims, and Andrew Klager's fine collection on the Mennonite way of proceeding 'from suffering to solidarity' provides a most enlightening and instructive guide to these impressive contributions, and what we can learn from them. Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, MIT

Author Information

Andrew P. Klager is a Research Associate at the Anabaptist-Mennonite Centre for Faith and Learning, Trinity Western University, British Columbia, where he is also an Adjunct Professor in the history department, and teaches for the Centre for Mennonite Studies, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Glasgow, focusing on sixteenth-century Anabaptist history, and is the author of several articles and book chapters on Anabaptist origins, history of Christianity, Mennonites and peace and conflict studies, and interreligious peacebuilding between Muslims and Christians.

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