PEACE AND RECONCILIATION SEMINAR 1: BASIC COURSE.

PEACE AND RECONCILIATION

SEMINAR 1:BASIC COURSE

Peacebuilders Community

PAR Philippines

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INTRODUCTION

PEACE AND RECONCILIATIONBASIC COURSE

Pursuing Peace

UnderstandingStrategic Peacebuilding

The Nature of Conflict

The Process ofConflict Transformation

& Reconciliation

PURSUING

PEACE

WORKSHOP 1:

WHAT IS PEACE?

1. Personal Reflection: 5 minutes

2. Group Understanding: 10 minutes

3. Class Understanding: 10 minutes

CHALLENGES FOR BIBLICAL SHALOMLIVINGValues of the Global Empire in the 21st Century

Extreme IndividualismThis is the most emphasized modern cultural value being communicated in the big media, causing the family and community to be disintegrated.

Practical MaterialismMany families may be religious during Sunday mornings, but practicing materialists during most of the week, influenced more by commercial advertisements and greed-oriented consumerism than by biblical principles, biblical ethics, and biblical morality.

A Culture of Violence and WarA belief system that human conflicts and differences are ultimately resolved by the useof force; thus, justifying personal, domesticsocial, and political violence.

A Mechanistic View of PeopleIn opposition to the biblical view, a mechanistic view of people treats humans and the creation as machine-projects rather than living organisms who are also story-subjects. Thus, the family, the church and the community is seen as an organization to be fixed rather than an organism to be healed.

LOOKING AT PEACE IN SEVERAL LAYERS

SUPPRESSIONOF CONFLICT

MILITARYPOLITICALECONOMICRELIGIOUS

PAXROMANAUNJUST

GLOBALISMJUST

PEACE

THE HIGHESTFORM OF PEACE ACHIEVABLEBY HUMAN BEINGS

SALAMSHALOM

THE PEACEOF GOD --THE KIND THATTRANSCENDSUNDERSTANDING

TRANFORMATIVE ENGAGEMENT

INEVITABLE PRESENCE OF KOSMOS

Harmony with God (Spiritual Transformation)

SHALOM--HARMONY IN OUR BASIC RELATIONSHIPS

A BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING OF PEACETHE PEACE OF GOD IS CENTRAL TO THE GOOD NEWS

Harmony with Others (Social-Political Transformation)

Harmony with the Creation (Economic-Ecological Transformation)

Harmony with the Self (Psycho-Social Transformation)

PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING

PEACEKEEPINGThe use of legitimate and greater military force

to overpower other armed forces that are deemed illegitimate,

for the purpose of “peace and order.”

PEACEBUILDINGA strategic advancement of Just-Peace

using non-violent processes.

PEACEMAKINGThe application of the principles of

Jesus Christ in the process of peacebuildingbased on biblical salam-shalom.


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UNDERSTANDING STRATEGIC

PEACEBUILDING

WHAT IS PEACEBUILDING?

A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGYthat encompasses, generates, and sustains the full array of processes, approaches, and stages needed to transform conflict toward more sustainable, peaceful relationships.

AS A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIESpeacebuilding has many functions--conflict transformation, military intervention and conversion, governance and policymaking, restorative and transitional justice, environmental protection, human rights, civilian and military peacekeeping, peace education, activism and advocacy, trauma healing, and social-economic development.

RECONCILIATIONis the central component of peacebuilding. The conflicting parties must be willing to go on a journey from resolution of issues to rebuilding of relationships.

SUSTAINABLE PEACEBUILDING

PRESENTCONFLICTEDREALITIES

analysis

DESIREDFUTURE:

JUST-PEACE &RECONCILIATION

visioningPROCESS OF RECONCILIATION

PEACEBUILDING

present & future

IN PEACEBUILDING…

OUR VALUES

OUR PROCESSES

OUR STRUCTURES

MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH

OUR ENDS

ACTORS TO PEACEBUILDING

LEVEL 1:TOP LEADERSHIP

LEVEL 2:MIDDLE-RANGE

LEADERSHIP

LEVEL 3:GRASSROOTSLEADERSHIP

:: Focus on high-level negotiations:: Emphasizes ceasefire:: Led by highly visible, single mediator

:: Problem-solving workshops:: Training in conflict resolution:: Peace Commissions:: Insider-partial teams

:: Local Peace Commissions:: Grassroots training:: Prejudice reduction:: Psycho-social work in post-war trauma

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AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR A PAR MOVEMENT

ROOT CAUSESWhat are the root

causes of the crisis?

VISION: PEACE & RECONCILIATIONWhat are the social

structures and relationships we desire?

FOUR TRANSFORMATIONSHow do we get from

crisis to desired change?

CRISIS MANAGEMENTHow do we manage

the immediate crisis?

PREVENTIONHow do we prevent thecrisis from recurring?

Adopted from John Paul Lederach, Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies (USIP, Wash., DC, 1997, p. 80)

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RELATIONSHIP

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VENTION

NEW STARTTOWARDS

JUST-PEACE

CONFRONTCONFLICT

NON-VIOLENTLY

REDUCEVIOLENCE

BUILDCAPACITY

THE CYCLE TOWARDS JUST-PEACE

TRANSFORMCONFLICT

SHORT-TERM, IMMEDIATE APPROACHES

LONG-TERM, IMMEDIATE APPROACHES

WORKSHOP 2:

PEACEBUILDINGRESOURCESWITHIN ME

1. SPIRITUAL

2. INTELLECTUAL

3. PSYCHOLOGICAL

4. VOLITIONAL


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THE NATURE OF CONFLICT

Conflict is an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce recources, and interference from the other party in achieving their goals.

CONFLICT

DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT

PERSONAL

RELATIONAL

STRUCTURAL

CULTURAL

LEAVES: EFFECTS OF CONFLICT:: armed clashes:: looting:: killing:: raids:: displacement:: poverty:: domestic violence:: addiction

TRUNK: CORE ISSUES:: land, ancestral domain:: right to self-determination:: historical injustice:: colonial mentality:: ethnic prejudice:: culture of violence

ROOTS: CAUSES OF CONFLICT:: colonialism/foreign oppression:: unjust laws:: graft and corruption:: theologies of violence

CONFLICTS ARE LIKE TREES

MISSINGGOD’SSTANDARDFOR HUMANITYAND THEWHOLECREATION

DIFFERING APPROACHES TO CONFLICT

CONFLICT PREVENTION

CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION


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THE PROCESS OF

CONFLICTTRANSFORMATION

CONFLICTis an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent

parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce recources, and interference from the other party in achieving their goals

TRANSFORMATIONis a process of change

CONFLICT TRANSFORMATIONis a way of looking at an expressed struggle

from two perspectives: description and prescription.

WHAT IS CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION?

BASIC HUMAN NEEDS AND RIGHTS

SOCIALRespect. Security. Participation.

CULTURALCulture. Religion. Identity.

MATERIALFood. Shelter. Health Care

WORKSHOP 3:

CONFLICT-IN-CONTEXT

1. CONFLICT. What’s the equivalentword for this idea in your own language? What does it mean literally?

2. CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION. What’s the equivalent word for this idea in your own language? What does it mean literally?

HOW CONFLICT TRANSFORMS A COMMUNITY

7. POLARIZATION Change in social organization

6. ANTAGONISM Hostility

5. EYE FOR AN EYE Reaction & escalation

4. NEGATIVE TRIANGLE Talk negatively about, not with

3. ISSUE PROLIFERATION From specific to general

2. SHIFT FROM DISAGREEMENT TO PERSONAL ANTAGONISM Person seen as problem

1. PROBLEM-SOLVING Disagree but share problem

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THE PROCESS OF

RECONCILIATION

PROCESS OF RECONCILIATION

Reconciliation is focused on building relationship between antagonists.

Reconciliation is a place, a locus, a space created for encounter by the parties.

Reconciliation is a great biblical-theological concept and a practical course of action.

PARADOXICAL ENERGIZERS OF RECONCILIATION

PEACE

TRUTH

MERCY

JUSTICE

WORKSHOP 4:

MERCY. TRUTH. JUSTICE. PEACE.If Mercy, Truth, Justice, and Peace are persons,

how would you describe their respectivecharacters? Please elaborate.

MERCY

TRUTH

JUSTICE

PEACE

WORKSHOP 5:

RECONCILIATION-IN-CONTEXT

1. RECONCILIATION. The equivalent word for this idea in our own dialect is…

It literally means…

2. THE PROCESS OF RECONCILIATION IN OUR CULTURE involves the followingsteps or approaches:a.b.c.

4. NEGATIVE TRIANGLE Talk negatively about, not with

THE JOURNEY TOWARDS RECONCILIATION

4. POSITIVE TRIANGLE Talk positively about, not with

7. POLARIZATION Change in social organization

6. ANTAGONISM Hostility

5. EYE FOR AN EYE Reaction & escalation

3. ISSUE PROLIFERATION From specific to general

2. SHIFT FROM DISAGREEMENT TO PERSONAL ANTAGONISM Person seen as problem

1. PROBLEM-SOLVING Disagree but share problem

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7. CEASEFIRE Realize effects of violence

6. MONITOR CEASEFIRE Seek mediation

5. AGREE TO NEGOTIATE Proactive de-escalation

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& Reconciliation

Harmony with God (Spiritual Transformation)

SALAM-SHALOMTHE PEACE OF GOD IS CENTRAL TO THE GOOD NEWS

Harmony with Others (Social-Political Transformation)

Harmony with the Creation (Economic-Ecological Transformation)

Harmony with the Self (Psycho-Social Transformation)

PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING

P.A.R. VALUES

1. LOVE2. TRUTH3. JUSTICE4. FORGIVENESS5. PEACE6. VOLUNTARY SERVICE7. RESPECT8. PATIENCE9. MUTUAL LEARNING

10. ACCOUNTABILITY

Which of these values are currently difficultfor you to put into practice?

OUR PRINCIPLES OF

LEADERSHIP,MENTORSHIP, &MULTIPLICATION

SPIRITUALITY OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORSHIP

INTIMACY WITH THE TRIUNE GOD AND BIBLICAL SERVANT-LEADERSHIP

HEART OF A SERVANT

MIND OF A MANAGER

STRENGTHOF A LEADER

SOUL OF A TEACHER

THE CREATIVITY OF THE CREATOR

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PEACE THEOLOGY, PEACEBUILDING, AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

TO THE END THAT PEACE COMMUNITIES WILL BE ESTABLISHED THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES

PEACECOMMUNITIES

ALL OVERTHE COUNTRY

PEACE THEOLOGY

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AN INVITATION TO DREAM AND TO WORK TOGETHER TO BUILD

A NETWORK OF PEACEBUILDING COMMUNITIESTHROUGHOUT OUR BEAUTIFUL LAND

HOW TO CONTACT US:

OFFICE ADDRESS:

2F Coffee for Peace Bldg.McArthur Highway, Matina

Davao City 8000Republic of the Philippines

MAILING ADDRESS:

P.O. Box 80128Davao City 8000

Republic of the Philippines

TELEPHONE:

(+63.82) 297.3139

EMAIL:

[email protected]

www.peacebuilderscommunity.org

PEACE AND RECONCILIATION SEMINAR 1: BASIC COURSE.

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