Category: reflection
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Can social media be a tool for liberation?
The social media coverage of the attacks and aggression in Gaza has built awareness about what is happening in Palestine and has mobilized millions of people to take action. Social media has changed the way that people interact with each other, and therefore it will impact how people engage in peacebuilding, decolonization, and justice work.
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Friends by Reconciliation
My work revolves around preaching about reconciliation, but never has it occur to me that someone would forgive his/her victim to a point of making them their friend despite the kind of the crime they committed to them.
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Holistic Peacebuilding in Schools
In these peace clubs, students learn about ways to address the problems that they face at school and at home, and are supported to come up with creative, nonviolent solutions. Peace Club Lusaka’s main activities are: teacher trainings, monitoring and evaluation of the peace clubs, and workshops with parents and community members.
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Learning as a Seed Cohort
While all the seeders are working with different partners and in different places in Zambia, we regularly connect as a team to learn, reflect, and have fun together. In July we were able to meet in Lusaka for two weeks of learning and team building.
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My Awkward Experience with Incarcerated People
Zambia correctional service facilities aims at assisting inmates in becoming new, reformed people who will no longer harm others. These institutions work to address their psychological concerns while also educating them. ZCS attempt to correct their errors by educating them on what they did wrong.
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Violence is a Weak Power
Active nonviolence is a silent power, a gradual influence that draws its strength from mutual inspiration, and that grows from a few to many voices that the oppressor can no longer shut down.
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Soul Searching
What does it mean to be nonviolent? How do we avoid fantasy violence? Is helping in times of war enabling war? What will we do when faced with danger? These questions are difficult to answer.
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Seek Peace and Pursue it
The call to live a life of non-violence is not easy or straight forward, and it becomes even more complicated when we are in contexts that are unfamiliar. Our contexts shape our worldview, values, morals, and understanding of what is considered violence or peace.
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Reckless Love
As a Christian who believes in non- violence, I must aim to love others without considering what the other person has to offer. I believe that peace, non-violence, justice cannot come into existence if love is absent. Love makes the world go round.
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Teeming with Thoughts
A reflection from Lily about her first month in Zambia and her motivation to join the Seed program.