Posts tagged PAPNET
BPFNA provides support for 15 peace projects in 2021 through the Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz! • ¡BPFNA brinda apoyo para 15 proyectos de paz en 2021 a través del Fondo de Paz-Fondos por la Paz!
BPFNA provides support for 15 peace projects in 2021 through the Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz! • ¡BPFNA brinda apoyo para 15 proyectos de paz en 2021 a través del Fondo de Paz-Fondos por la Paz!

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BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz celebrates the support given to 15 projects for peace and justice during this year’s Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz grant cycle. The Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz was established in 2018 and empowers small, grassroots groups around the world doing the work of peacemaking on a local or regional level.

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BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz celebra el apoyo brindado a 15 proyectos por la paz y la justicia durante el ciclo de subvenciones Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz de este año. El Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz se estableció en 2018 y empodera a pequeños grupos de base de todo el mundo que realizan el trabajo de establecimiento de la paz a nivel local o regional.

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BPFNAPeace Fund, Fondos por la Paz, Peacemakers, Partners, Grants, Board, Staff, Mexico, Kenya, PAPNET, Women, Indigenous, Children and Youth, Sustainability, Conflict Transformation, LGBTQIA, Refugees, Colombia, Africa, Venezuela, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC
Newly Created Peace Fund to Support Six Projects in 2019 • Fondos por la Paz recién creado para apoyar seis proyectos en 2019
Newly Created Peace Fund to Support Six Projects in 2019 • Fondos por la Paz recién creado para apoyar seis proyectos en 2019

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The newly created Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz will support six projects in 2019. This fund gives grants to empower small, grassroots groups doing the work of peacemaking on a local or regional level.

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El recién creado Fondos por la Paz apoyará seis proyectos en 2019. Este fondo otorga subvenciones para capacitar a pequeños grupos de base que realizan el trabajo de pacificación a nivel local o regional.

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BPFNAFundraising, Partners, Grants, Mexico, Africa, PAPNET, Colombia, SIM
Crossing Borders for Peace: A Conflict Transformation Training on the Border of Uganda and Kenya
Crossing Borders for Peace: A Conflict Transformation Training on the Border of Uganda and Kenya

The training was held in the Amudat District also known as Karamoja cluster due to mixture of pastoralist grazing their livestock together. It borders Kenya in the West and Uganda in the North East. The region is populated by three tribe communities (Karamoja, Pokot and Turkana) located along the border of Kenya and Uganda. Karomoja tribes are the majority while Pokot and Turkana are minorities in the region. Access to pastures and water for the livestock of the minority groups have been minimalized by the majority group. This has caused daily conflict over sharing of the resources.

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BPFNABoaz, Conflict Transformation, Kenya, Africa, Partners, PAPNET, Uganda
From Street Boy to President of Peace: My Vocation as a Peacemaker
From Street Boy to President of Peace: My Vocation as a Peacemaker

The following story is part of the Vocation of Peacemaking series where we asked members and friends of the BPFNA to write brief essays on their peacemaking work. Each story is a wonderful reminder that there are as many ways to live a life of peace as there are people, and that we can act for peace in real and important ways wherever we find ourselves. This essay comes from Boaz Keibarak, the president and founder of Kingdom of Peace and Development (KOPAD) which works for reconciliation and peaceful stability among inter-tribal communities in Kenya and across Uganda and Southern Sudan.

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BPFNAVocation of Peacemaking, Conflict Transformation, Gavel, Partners, PAPNET
Conflict Transformation Training in the Rift Valley, Kenya
Conflict Transformation Training in the Rift Valley, Kenya

The following is a report from our friend Boaz Keibarak on a series of Conflict Transformation trainings held from April 8-14, 2014 in four villages in the Rift Valley in Kenya. The trainings are an ongoing effort to ease conflict and tension between two warring groups in the region: the Pokot and Turkana. In October 2013, 135 people were killed during an eruption of violence in the area.

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BPFNAPAPNET, Africa, Kenya, Conflict Transformation, Gavel
Conflict Transformation Training at the Baptist Convention of Malawi
Conflict Transformation Training at the Baptist Convention of Malawi

From April 18-19, 2014, Lancelot (Lance) Muteyo, director of training and advocacy for the Pan African Peace Network, held a Conflict Transformation session at the Baptist Convention of Malawi (BACOMA). BACOMA is the largest association of Baptists in Malawi and among the most influential in Southern Africa. No one from BACOMA had previously been trained in Conflict Transformation.

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BPFNAPAPNET, Africa, Malawi, Conflict Transformation, Gavel
The Rising of Boaz Keibarack
The Rising of Boaz Keibarack

As long as history can recall, the Turkana and Pokot ethnic groups have organized cattle raids against each other. Conflict began as a result of livestock theft, and the two groups have since been through numerous periods of war. The escalation of violence between Turkana and Pokot communities shows no sign of ending, and it is becoming increasingly destructive and less manageable. However, after attending a Conflict Transformation training led by Dan Buttry, a young man named Boaz Keibarack found the tools needed to go into these villages and conduct peace talks between the two warring groups.

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BPFNAPAPNET, Gavel, World Peace, Conflict Transformation, Africa, Boaz, Kenya