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Doopsgezind NL januari-februari 2019
'Angst is maar voor even, hoop is voor altijd. Leven uit hoop is leven zonder dat je weet hoe het afloopt en zonder dat je je daardoor laat beïnvloeden', schrijft Kalle Brüsewitz. Deze editie gaat over hoop. Read more >>>

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Prof. Dr Najib Awad - Toward a Hermeneutic Tripod The Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Peace & Justice Studies periodically holds what we call expert-meetings with the students of the master’s specialization Peace, Trauma, and Religion. The last expert meeting was a joint event with the students of the master’s specialisation Building Interreligious Relations and the Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage. The guest speaker was Prof. Dr Najib Awad, attempting to decipher the genome of ‘Crisis’ in the ‘refugee crisis’. Read more >>
Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival In his presentation in one of the sessions at the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, Prof. Dr Fernando Enns speaks about Mennonites in the World Council of Churches in the light of Anabaptist peace building global church engagement. Or in other words: the global engagement of Anabaptist in the field of peace building. The purpose of the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival in June 2016 was to explore traditions and contemporary expressions of Anabaptist/Mennonite peace beliefs and practices; to bring together academics and practitioners to learn from each other, to give expression to peacebuilding ideals through the arts, and to assess and re-envision Mennonite peacebuilding practise.
Learning about – and from – the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace Encouragement, inspiration and storytelling animated the plenary discussion of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace. Read more >>