Reflective Learning

A central aim of the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival was to learn about

Anabaptist-Mennonite peacebuilding from experience, research, and a wide variety of peace practices.  Five questions served to ground an overarching learning agenda for the conference:

• Who are we as Anabaptist-Mennonite peacebuilders?
• What do (or did) we do?
• With what issues do we wrestle?
• What has changed over time?
• Where are we going?

These questions were explored in three ways: morning Stories of Peace plenaries, afternoon Conversation Cafés and reflections from a six-person Listening Team.   

An evening banquet, titled “Giving up Privilege, Pursuing Decolonization,” provided another venue to hear personal stories of partnering together for transformation, featuring a thoughtful conversation between Steve Heinrichs and Leah Gazan.  

Follow the links above for summaries.