I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role of religion in conflict and in peace. I am going to be working with a group that works through local church, that builds on the peacemaking message of the Bible and that can be used as a source of peace to draw people together, instead of
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Over the past month, in preparation for Colombia, I have been reading both Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and a collection of essays, Peace, Democracy, Human Rights in Colombia, edited by Christopher Welna and Gustavo Gallon. In his book on popular education, Freire states, “The oppressor is solidarity with the oppressed only when[s]he stops
