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Generation C Magazine
Dear Caroline Attached is my contribution to your new magazine. If you like it I can also provide copies in a number of other languages. Jim Foster, Director The Peacebuilding Institute www.peacebu…
Tagged: resolution, change, solutions, conflict, media
Replied Oct. 6, 2009
New Issue of the Journal of Religion, Conflict and Peace, Available Online
Thanks, Craig, fo a great find. We have needed such a journal for long time. This one appears to be well done. Jim Foster
Tagged: Journal of Religion, Conflict…
Replied Mar. 5, 2009
What is peace .......................?
Dear Thushara Peace has many facets--personal, relational, internatioanal, etc.--but my focus and working definition is one that I picked up from my study of Gandhi--nonviolence. Peace as nonviolenc…
Replied Nov. 21, 2008
Director, Peacebuilding Institute
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Thank you for this article. It has been my contention for some years now that peace, as in non-violence, is essential before any other good can happen. It is the foundation on which we build.
Jim
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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- My full time work is in peacebuilding and promoting nonviolent lifestles and communication.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- James L. Foster is a former Baptist minister and Mennonite church planter who is currently President of Institutes for Christian Spirituality and Interim Director of Peacebuilding Institute of East Tennessee. He has a Masters Degree in Christology from Eastern Mennonite Seminary and has served for several years on the denominational Board of Directors for the Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions. He has worked as an advocate for the Caribbean poor, particularly those in Haiti, Jamaica, and Guyana. He has for many years served as spiritual director for numerous individuals and has conducted over a hundred prayer workshops and hunger workshops in churches from Florida to New York and from Virginia to North Dakota, including Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopal and Anabaptist churches and schools and has spoken from their pulpits. He is a speaker and workshop facilitator available for peacebuilding programs and spirituality seminars worldwide.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- On the ground experience in Haiti, Jamaica, and Wales and the United States. Regular contacts in over 90 other countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South and Central America.
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- United States
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Director, World Citizenship Institute and the Peacebuilding Institute
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://www.peacebuildinginstitute.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.christiansppirituality.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.preachingpeace.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Relief
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Training, Program Administration, Advocacy, Research
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- The Power of Creative Nonviolence
Nonviolent Living and Communication
Peace Theology
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- ICS Peace Memo
En Christo: A Journal for a New Christianity
Journal of Global Peace and World Citizenship (in planning stage)
Comment Wall (62 comments)
- At 10:13am on January 27, 2010,
James L. Foster said…
- Dear Peace Friends
I have been slow to communicate with many of you. I apologize. A sometimes overwhelming work load here in Tennessee, my tendency to overcommit myself, and some recent personal health issues have contributed to the infrequency of my communications. I hope to do better.
It will be helpful to me if those of you who share my passion for peacebuiling will sign on as my friends on the Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development network. That way I can communicate with many of you at one time. For more personal communication please use my personal email, jimsandyfoster@yahoo,com.
Blessings. Jim
- At 1:51pm on January 26, 2010,
PHOLO MVUMBI ROGER said…
- Dear father,many thanks for your interested in my humble person,i am an asssistant pastor in a local church of assemblies of God here in D.R.Congo and working as an independant journalist so i would like to be trained in peace building and conflict resolution .As you know my country is facing to many conflits problems and i think after my training ,i can serve as a representative of the institute in my country .once gain thaks a lot .roger pholo 00243-998218472.
- At 10:02am on January 26, 2010,
Rebecca Hovey said…
- Thank you for extending your message. Your Institute is doing some amazing work.
Rebecca
- At 5:49am on January 26, 2010,
Tureto roza said…
- peace house Africa is an NGO dealing with orhans in Aarica it head quarter is USA in Menossota.They started the secondar school in arusha tanzania which provide education in secondary school level, i'm a literature teacher and history teacher there.for more informations visit www.peacehouseafrica.org.
thanks,your welcome
- At 10:22am on January 18, 2010,
Rashad said…
- Dear brother Jim, Greeting to you in the name of our Lord and his son Jesus Christ. From long time I did not hear from you. We hope you are doing fine and all is well with you & family. You are in our daily prayers. Things are going fine over here. Our Christmas get together goes very well with Youth peace club. Lord blesses us with too many young people who really want change.
Important, Some one hack my personal official email address in December 2009 when I was real busy with our organizational issues and events. chairman@hopedevelopment.org I talked to the domain company and they said they will take care now, . Please keep in touch with me on this yahoo address this is my personal email address jesus_is_my_life2000@yahoo.com
Over here we have some Satan groups who are trying to dominate good Christian organizations and they try to destroy their contacts. This is the reason I believe in Phone conversations more then emails.
Please reply and confirm that you got this message.
Regards, love and peace.
Rashad.
Chairman: Hope development organization.
Email: chairman@hopedevelopment.org
http://www.hopedevelopment.org/index.htm
- At 3:23am on December 31, 2009,
AJAMBO OLIVE said…
- I am glad too that you honoured my request. I hve sent in your mail box web addresses of the work done by the organisation i volunteer in (African Prisons Project). I am looking forward to cooperating with you as far as peace building is concerned in prisons.
I will be so grateful for your positive response
Please, keep in touch
Ajambo Olive
Kampala Uganda
- At 8:35am on December 4, 2009,
Sie.Kathieravealu said…
- Further to your comments on my views, I have posted my basic views on your web-site. I could not get your direct email address. My email address has been given there. Please send your comments directly so that I could send the details of my views for your comments.
- At 9:57am on December 1, 2009,
Andrew Benson Greene said… - hello Jim, are you there? hope you will find time to keep in touch again soon. andrew your friend
- At 6:27am on November 28, 2009,
Prince Godwin Korieocha said… - DEAR IT WONDERFUL TO SEE IN THIS GREAT FAMILY.
KEEP UP THE WORK .
HAVE A NICE DAY .
PRINCE GODWIN KORIEOCHA
- At 11:28pm on November 17, 2009,
James L. Foster said…
- Dear Ajambo
I am pleased to invite your friendship, though I am not always the best correspondent. I hope you are having a blessed day!
Jim
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Tele-seminar on Culturally-Adapted MHPSS in Haiti and for Haitian-Americans
March 19, 2010 from 1pm to 4pm – New York City + Remote Distance Learning
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USAID, Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event, that will bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world
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Nonviolence In The Context Of War Or Armed Conflict
June 18, 2010 at 6pm to July 5, 2010 at 7pm – Kurve Wustrow
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Bologna, Italy Symposium on Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Reconciliation
June 19, 2010 to July 17, 2010 – Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center
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