Introduction to NARPI
NARPI stands for Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute and is run through collaboration among several organizations across South Korea, Japan, and China. Their goal is to meet regularly for several weeks in the summer to gather peacebuilding practitioners and students from Northeast Asia to share their experience, get to know one another, and learn new…
60 Years from Now…
Two women, working as “maids” in 1960’s segregated southern United States, cross racial lines to take a risk in telling their stories to an eager young writer. Watching “The Help” in Virginia, I couldn’t help but wonder about the impact of such a film in what was the historic “south.” The film showed…
Planting the Seed of an Idea
This weekend, the campus movie theatre showed “Inception.” An entertaining story about technology allowing entry into another person’s dreams, the film strangely reminded me of the Advent story. In the movie, dream architects and navigators interact with the sleeper in the dream world. Usually they would extract important information for a client. In this case,…
Conversion as Restorative Justice?
As part of the annual Augsburger Lecture Series at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Ched Myers and Elaine Enns spoke on “The Personal and Political Dimensions of Conversion: Restorative Justice.” After studying at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, I was familiar with the aspects of restorative justice and holistic peacebuilding as described by Enns, but Myers’…
