2. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
SEMINAR 1:
BASIC COURSE

3. Peacebuilders Community PAR Philippines
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4. INTRODUCTION

5. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION BASIC COURSE
Pursuing Peace
Understanding Strategic Peacebuilding
The Nature of Conflict
The Process of Conflict Transformation & Reconciliation

6. PURSUING PEACE

7. WHAT IS PEACE? WORKSHOP 1: 1. Personal Reflection: 5 minutes
2. Group Understanding: 10 minutes
3. Class Understanding: 10 minutes

8. CHALLENGES FOR BIBLICAL SHALOMLIVING
Values of the Global Empire in the 21st Century
Extreme Individualism This is the most emphasized modern cultural value being communicated in the big media, causing the family and community to be disintegrated.
Practical Materialism Many families may be religious during Sunday mornings, but practicing materialists during most of the week, influenced more by commercial advertisements and greed-oriented consumerism than by biblical principles, biblical ethics, and biblical morality.
A Culture of Violence and War A belief system that human conflicts and differences are ultimately resolved by the use of force; thus, justifying personal, domestic social, and political violence.
A Mechanistic View of People In opposition to the biblical view, a mechanistic view of people treats humans and the creation as machine-projects rather than living organisms who are also story-subjects. Thus, the family, the church and the community is seen as an organization to be fixed rather than an organism to be healed.

9. LOOKING AT PEACE IN SEVERAL LAYERS INEVITABLE PRESENCE OF KOSMOS
SALAM SHALOM
JUST
PEACE
UNJUST GLOBALISM
PAX ROMANA
THE PEACE
OF GOD --
THE KIND THAT TRANSCENDS UNDERSTANDING
THE HIGHEST
FORM OF PEACE ACHIEVABLE
BY HUMAN BEINGS
SUPPRESSION
OF CONFLICT
MILITARY
POLITICAL
ECONOMIC
RELIGIOUS
TRANFORMATIVE ENGAGEMENT

10. A BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING OF PEACE PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING
THE PEACE OF GOD IS CENTRAL TO THE GOOD NEWS
SHALOM--HARMONY IN OUR BASIC RELATIONSHIPS
Harmony with God (Spiritual Transformation)
Harmony with the Self (Psycho-Social Transformation)
Harmony with Others (Social-Political Transformation)
Harmony with the Creation (Economic-Ecological Transformation)
PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING

11. A strategic advancement of Just-Peace using non-violent processes.
PEACEKEEPING
The use of legitimate and greater military force to overpower other armed forces that are deemed illegitimate, for the purpose of “peace and order.”
PEACEBUILDING
A strategic advancement of Just-Peace using non-violent processes.
PEACEMAKING
The application of the principles of Jesus Christ in the process of peacebuilding based on biblical salam-shalom.

12. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION BASIC COURSE
Pursuing Peace

13. UNDERSTANDING STRATEGIC PEACEBUILDING

14. WHAT IS PEACEBUILDING?
A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY that encompasses, generates, and sustains the full array of processes, approaches, and stages needed to transform conflict toward more sustainable, peaceful relationships.
AS A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES peacebuilding has many functions--conflict transformation, military intervention and conversion, governance and policymaking, restorative and transitional justice, environmental protection, human rights, civilian and military peacekeeping, peace education, activism and advocacy, trauma healing, and social-economic development.
RECONCILIATION is the central component of peacebuilding. The conflicting parties must be willing to go on a journey from resolution of issues to rebuilding of relationships.

15. SUSTAINABLE PEACEBUILDING
PROCESS OF RECONCILIATION
PEACEBUILDING
present & future
PRESENT
CONFLICTED
REALITIES
analysis
DESIRED
FUTURE:
JUST-PEACE &
RECONCILIATION
visioning

16. MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH
IN PEACEBUILDING…
OUR VALUES
OUR PROCESSES
OUR STRUCTURES
MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH
OUR ENDS

17. ACTORS TO PEACEBUILDING
ACTIONS
LEVEL 1: TOP LEADERSHIP
LEVEL 2: MIDDLE-RANGE LEADERSHIP
LEVEL 3: GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP
:: Focus on high-level negotiations
:: Emphasizes ceasefire
:: Led by highly visible, single mediator
:: Problem-solving workshops
:: Training in conflict resolution
:: Peace Commissions
:: Insider-partial teams
:: Local Peace Commissions
:: Grassroots training
:: Prejudice reduction
:: Psycho-social work in post-war trauma
FEW
AFFECTED POPULATION
MANY

18. AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR A PAR MOVEMENT
Adopted from John Paul Lederach, Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies (USIP, Wash., DC, 1997, p. 80)
ROOT CAUSES
What are the root causes of the crisis?
VISION: PEACE & RECONCILIATION
What are the social structures and relationships we desire?
FOUR TRANSFORMATIONS
How do we get from crisis to desired change?
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
How do we manage the immediate crisis?
PREVENTION
How do we prevent the crisis from recurring?
SYSTEM
SUB-SYSTEM
LEVEL OF RESPONSE
RELATIONSHIP
ISSUE
CRISIS
INTER- VENTION
PREPARATION
AND TRAINING
DESIGN OF
SOCIAL CHANGE
DESIRED
FUTURE
6WKS-1YR YR - 2YRS YRS-5YRS YRS
TIME FRAME OF ACTIVITY

19. THE CYCLE TOWARDS JUST-PEACE
CONFRONT CONFLICT NON- VIOLENTLY
REDUCE VIOLENCE
NEW START TOWARDS JUST-PEACE
SHORT-TERM, IMMEDIATE APPROACHES
LONG-TERM, IMMEDIATE APPROACHES
BUILD CAPACITY
TRANSFORM CONFLICT

20. PEACEBUILDING RESOURCES WITHIN ME
WORKSHOP 2:
PEACEBUILDING RESOURCES WITHIN ME
1. SPIRITUAL
2. INTELLECTUAL
3. PSYCHOLOGICAL
4. VOLITIONAL

21. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION BASIC COURSE
Pursuing Peace
Understanding Strategic Peacebuilding

22. THE NATURE OF CONFLICT

23. CONFLICT
Conflict is an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce recources, and interference from the other party in achieving their goals.

24. DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT
PERSONAL
RELATIONAL
STRUCTURAL
CULTURAL

25. CONFLICTS ARE LIKE TREES
LEAVES: EFFECTS OF CONFLICT
:: armed clashes :: looting
:: killing
:: raids
:: displacement :: poverty :: domestic violence
:: addiction
MISSING
GOD’S
STANDARD
FOR HUMANITY
AND THE
WHOLE
CREATION
TRUNK: CORE ISSUES
:: land, ancestral domain :: right to self-determination
:: historical injustice
:: colonial mentality
:: ethnic prejudice
:: culture of violence
ROOTS: CAUSES OF CONFLICT
:: colonialism/foreign oppression :: unjust laws
:: graft and corruption :: theologies of violence

26. DIFFERING APPROACHES TO CONFLICT
CONFLICT PREVENTION
CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION

27. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION BASIC COURSE
Pursuing Peace
Understanding Strategic Peacebuilding
The Nature of Conflict

28. THE PROCESS OF
CONFLICT
TRANSFORMATION

29. WHAT IS CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION? CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION
is an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce recources, and interference from the other party in achieving their goals
TRANSFORMATION
is a process of change
CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION
is a way of looking at an expressed struggle from two perspectives: description and prescription.

30. SOCIAL Respect. Security. Participation.
BASIC HUMAN NEEDS AND RIGHTS
SOCIAL Respect. Security. Participation.
CULTURAL Culture. Religion. Identity.
MATERIAL Food. Shelter. Health Care

31. WORKSHOP 3: CONFLICT-IN-CONTEXT
CONFLICT. What’s the equivalent word for this idea in your own language? What does it mean literally?
2. CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION. What’s the equivalent word for this idea in your own language? What does it mean literally?

32. HOW CONFLICT TRANSFORMS A COMMUNITY CASE NEEDS INTERVENTION
DESTRUCTIVE
7. POLARIZATION Change in social organization
LESS ACCURATE COMMUNICATION
6. ANTAGONISM Hostility
5. EYE FOR AN EYE Reaction & escalation
LESS DIRECT CONTACT P
CASE NEEDS INTERVENTION _
4. NEGATIVE TRIANGLE Talk negatively about, not with P
MORE VIOLENCE
3. ISSUE PROLIFERATION From specific to general P P
LESS TRUST P
2. SHIFT FROM DISAGREEMENT TO PERSONAL ANTAGONISM Person seen as problem P= =P
1. PROBLEM-SOLVING Disagree but share problem
CONSTRUCTIVE P

33. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION BASIC COURSE
Pursuing Peace
Understanding Strategic Peacebuilding
The Nature of Conflict
The Process of Conflict Transformation

34. THE PROCESS OF
RECONCILIATION

35. PROCESS OF RECONCILIATION
Reconciliation is focused on building relationship between antagonists.
Reconciliation is a place, a locus, a space created for encounter by the parties.
Reconciliation is a great biblical-theological concept and a practical course of action.

36. PARADOXICAL ENERGIZERS OF RECONCILIATION
MERCY
JUSTICE
PEACE
TRUTH

37. MERCY. TRUTH. JUSTICE. PEACE.
WORKSHOP 4:
MERCY. TRUTH. JUSTICE. PEACE.
If Mercy, Truth, Justice, and Peace are persons, how would you describe their respective characters? Please elaborate.
MERCY
TRUTH
JUSTICE
PEACE

38. RECONCILIATION-IN-CONTEXT
WORKSHOP 5:
RECONCILIATION-IN-CONTEXT
RECONCILIATION. The equivalent word for this idea in our own dialect is… It literally means…
2. THE PROCESS OF RECONCILIATION IN OUR CULTURE involves the following steps or approaches: a. b. c.

39. THE JOURNEY TOWARDS RECONCILIATION CASE NEEDS INTERVENTION
DESTRUCTIVE
7. POLARIZATION Change in social organization
7. CEASEFIRE Realize effects of violence
MORE ACCURATE COMMUNICATION
6. MONITOR CEASEFIRE Seek mediation
6. ANTAGONISM Hostility M M
5. EYE FOR AN EYE Reaction & escalation
5. AGREE TO NEGOTIATE Proactive de-escalation M
MORE DIRECT CONTACT P
CASE NEEDS INTERVENTION M +
4. POSITIVE TRIANGLE Talk positively about, not with
4. NEGATIVE TRIANGLE Talk negatively about, not with P
LESS VIOLENCE M
MORE TRUST
3. ISSUE PROLIFERATION From specific to general
3. ISSUE CLARIFICATION From general to specific P P M P P
2. SHIFT FROM DISAGREEMENT TO PERSONAL ANTAGONISM Person seen as problem
2. SHIFT FROM PERSONAL ANTAGONISM TO DISAGREEMENT Person not seen as problem P= =P P
1. PROBLEM-SOLVING Disagree but share problem
1. STICK WITH PROBLEM-SOLVING Disagree but share problem P
CONSTRUCTIVE

40. PEACE AND RECONCILIATION BASIC COURSE
Pursuing Peace
Understanding Strategic Peacebuilding
The Nature of Conflict
The Process of Conflict Transformation
& Reconciliation

41. SALAM-SHALOM PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING
THE PEACE OF GOD IS CENTRAL TO THE GOOD NEWS
Harmony with God (Spiritual Transformation)
Harmony with the Self (Psycho-Social Transformation)
Harmony with Others (Social-Political Transformation)
Harmony with the Creation (Economic-Ecological Transformation)
PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING

42. 1. LOVE 2. TRUTH 3. JUSTICE 4. FORGIVENESS 5. PEACE
P.A.R. VALUES
1. LOVE
2. TRUTH
3. JUSTICE
4. FORGIVENESS
5. PEACE
6. VOLUNTARY SERVICE
7. RESPECT
8. PATIENCE
9. MUTUAL LEARNING
10. ACCOUNTABILITY
Which of these values are currently difficult for you to put into practice?

43. LEADERSHIP, MENTORSHIP, & MULTIPLICATION
OUR PRINCIPLES OF
LEADERSHIP,
MENTORSHIP, &
MULTIPLICATION

44. HEART OF A SERVANT SOUL OF A TEACHER
SPIRITUALITY OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORSHIP
INTIMACY WITH THE TRIUNE GOD AND BIBLICAL SERVANT-LEADERSHIP
STRENGTH OF A LEADER
THE PEACE OF THE CHRIST
THE ENERGY OF THE COMFORTER
MIND OF A MANAGER
SOUL OF A TEACHER
HEART OF A SERVANT
THE CREATIVITY OF THE CREATOR

45. PEACEBUILDING PEACE COMMUNITIES LEADERSHIP DEV’T PEACE THEOLOGY
PEACE THEOLOGY, PEACEBUILDING, AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TO THE END THAT PEACE COMMUNITIES WILL BE ESTABLISHED THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES
PEACEBUILDING
PEACE
COMMUNITIES
ALL OVER
THE COUNTRY
LEADERSHIP DEV’T
PEACE THEOLOGY

46. A NETWORK OF PEACEBUILDING COMMUNITIES
AN INVITATION TO DREAM AND TO WORK TOGETHER TO BUILD
A NETWORK OF PEACEBUILDING COMMUNITIES
THROUGHOUT OUR BEAUTIFUL LAND

47. www.peacebuilderscommunity.org HOW TO CONTACT US:
OFFICE ADDRESS:
2F Coffee for Peace Bldg. McArthur Highway, Matina
Davao City 8000
Republic of the Philippines
MAILING ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 80128
TELEPHONE:
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