Retreating Into Auschwitz – a Participant’s Reflection on Raising a Mala
Miriam's shares her reflective response to a post about her Mala Campaign she had shared on her social media to raise funds for the Auschwitz Bearing Witness retreat.
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Impact Report: Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat
Since 1996 the Auschwitz retreat has been an interfaith and immersive cross-cultural gathering event for over 1500 peacebuilders from different war-torn countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Palestine/Israel, Syria, Native American Nations and over 20 other...
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Introducing ZPI Affiliate Groups: Peacemakers Finland
To strengthen the connections between the individuals and organizations in our planetary network, ZPI will feature newly affiliated groups.  Join hive.zenpeacemakers.org to explore the offerings of all the organizations that have affiliated with us. Following...
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[Deutsch/English] Weiches Herz, starkes Herz: Tage des Friedens und der Versöhnung in Buchenwald
BUCHENWALD, DEUTSCHLAND: In der letzten Mai-Woche 2018 verbrachten 23 Praktizierende aus Deutschland, den Niederlanden, Dänemark, Großbritannien und den USA unter dem Motto "Geh an die Orte, die du fürchtest, und übe Frieden." The...
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Hard Bed by the White House: reflection on a street retreat in Washington DC
WASHINGTON DC, USA. "On the street retreat, spending four days and three nights on the streets of Washington DC, USA, mere blocks from the White House, my mind often muses about giving..."
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Bearing Witness at the Garrisons of the 1918 Finnish Civil War
HELSINKI, FINLAND. In 2018, one-hundred years after the Finnish Civil War of 1918, Peacemakers Finland organized a retreat to bear witness to its legacy.
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Haitian Heat Unrelenting as the Stream of Patients: A Nurse’s Plunge in Port-Au-Prince
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI. Diane Berg shares her experience of facilitating a free medical clinic in Haiti. "I am starting to understand that what is most precious to the Haitian people we meet is...
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Between Walls and Holy Places: Peacemakers Plunge in Palestine and Israel
ISRAEL-PALESTINE. In April 2018 a group of Swiss, Brazilian, Israeli and Palestinian Zen Peacemakers visited Israel and Palestine. Read Zen Peacemaker Iris Dotan Katz' reflection on the trip, with photographs.
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Bearing Witness to Land, Food and Race: Organizers review the 2017 retreat at Soul Fire Farm
PETERSBURG, NEW YORK, USA. In September 2017, Zen Peacemakers Roshi Paco Genkoji Lugoviña and Zen Peacemakers Minister Ariel Pliskin organized the retreat "Bearing Witness to Land, Food, and Race" with Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg,...
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Yet the Ground Holds Firm: Highlights from the 2017 Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Retreat in Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Bearing Witness Retreats reveal how, even though each place of tragedy reflects a unique circumstance, they all share in common universal human experiences - even the tendency to violence can...
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