Thursday, August 11, 2011
2011 Peacemakers in Action Working Retreat
From August 7 to 12, I am participating in the working retreat held by Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding at Drew University, Madison, NJ. We are 14 people participating from 26 that have received the Peacemakers in Action Award from Tanenbaum. We come from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, and America. During these days, our main goal has been to form a network of peacemakers. With the assistance of Rev. Dr. William O. Lowery, US, we have achieved our goal and have form three clusters. It is so important that people who have the passion for peacemaking and peace-building come together. The voice of the guns must be silenced. We know that they create fear, pain, poverty, and death. The time must come that we are able to put all our resources to produce food, to build homes, to educate our children, to take care of the environment. Chencho Alas
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This blog is about my work with the Mesoamerica Peace Movement. Mesoamerica, because we cover the countries from Panama to Chiapas, Mexico.
The MPM has two main components: values and principals that are essential for peace building or making, and responding to the material needs of every human being. Values are necessary for peace but we cannot live without food, health, lodging, work, an so on.
I started the MPM in the year 2000. At the present time we have a foundation to provide support to the peacemakers of Mesoamerica, the Foundation for Sustainability and Peacemaking in Mesoamerica that has a 501(c)3. We facilitate workshops to nourish peace and we train people in organic farming, alternative medicine, initiating community stores, and dealing with the environment.
There are about 125 organizations in Mesoamerica that are participating in building peace and we have facilitated workshops to more than 8,000 people. We have facilitated training in food production, alternative medicine, initiating community markets to 120 people. We have also trained about 350 people for facilitating workshops about peace.
Do you want to know more about the MPM? Please, blog me or send me an e-mail at chencho.alas@sbcglobal.net Do you want to contribute to MPM? Call me at 512-922-5931 or blog me or send an e-mail.
If you want peace, work for it.
Chencho
The MPM has two main components: values and principals that are essential for peace building or making, and responding to the material needs of every human being. Values are necessary for peace but we cannot live without food, health, lodging, work, an so on.
I started the MPM in the year 2000. At the present time we have a foundation to provide support to the peacemakers of Mesoamerica, the Foundation for Sustainability and Peacemaking in Mesoamerica that has a 501(c)3. We facilitate workshops to nourish peace and we train people in organic farming, alternative medicine, initiating community stores, and dealing with the environment.
There are about 125 organizations in Mesoamerica that are participating in building peace and we have facilitated workshops to more than 8,000 people. We have facilitated training in food production, alternative medicine, initiating community markets to 120 people. We have also trained about 350 people for facilitating workshops about peace.
Do you want to know more about the MPM? Please, blog me or send me an e-mail at chencho.alas@sbcglobal.net Do you want to contribute to MPM? Call me at 512-922-5931 or blog me or send an e-mail.
If you want peace, work for it.
Chencho
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