Seeking Peace in Africa: Stories from African Peacemakers

by Lon Fendall (Editor), Donald F. Miller

Seeking Peace is Africa" is a direct reply to the World Council of Churches' Decade to Overcome Violence. The WCC appealed to the Historic Peace Churches to share their responses to the enormous reach of terror and violation of human life in this generation. The stories in this volume are the hopeful responses of Africans who have lived through horrific violence. Some are unbearable tales of despair at the loss of millions of lives due to warfare, riots, terror, starvation, AIDS and disease. Others are remarkable descriptions of courageous peacemaking in the midst of nearly impossible circumstances.

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First published April 1, 2007

Reviews

[Tyler · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the record of the second Bienenberg Peace Conference, this time held in Nairobi, Kenya. The book attempts to fix one of the problems with Seeking Cultures of Peace, which was the lack of African voices.

This is good primer on the difficulties facing Africa at the beginning of the twentieth-first century, along with some attempts to find solutions to the violence taking place on that continent. I would recommend it to anyone thinking about doing peacemaking work in Africa.

Note: I did not read every essay in this book.