Opening a Space for Peace in Burundi & Central Africa

Peggy Holman peggy at opencirclecompany.com
Fri Jan 14 11:16:49 PST 2005


Friends,

Prosper Ndabishuriye of Burundi came to the International Practice of Peace
Open Space Conference just outside Seattle in November 2003.  He inspired
some of the high school students he met with an idea: to come build houses
in Burundi.  From that seed, Mike Seymour, President of the Heritage
Institute (a progressive educational organization), traveled to Burundi to
understand more about what was possible and begin to connect youth in the US
and Burundi.

Prosper and Mike will be traveling to various places in the US this winter
and would like to connect with schools, churches or other people interested
in peace-building work.

Here is his travel schedule:
January 26-29           Orlando, Fla.
January 30-February 4   Washington, D.C.
February 5-8            New York City
February 8-10           Boston area
February 19-22          Oakland & Bay area
February 23-March 25    Greater Seattle area

If you know of organizations that would be interested in hosting them,
please contact Mike Seymour at:mike at hol.edu  or 360-542-1289.

What Prosper and Mike are doing is remarkable!  Your support can truly make
a difference.  A bit more information is below.  You can also look at the
web site for Prosper's organization: http://jrmd.org/.


Many thanks for your support,
Peggy


Opening a Space for Peace in Burundi and Central Africa

Come hear from Prosper Ndabishuriye one of those rare individuals whose
character and times make for a heroic story of courage and healing of a
people in the face of death. Prosper took the daring step during the height
of the Tutsi & Hutu ethnic wars in Burundi in 1993 to bring a team of both
ethnicities together to help refugee families from both sides to reconcile
through the rebuilding of their homes<60% of which had been destroyed over
decades of ethnic conflict. Since that time, a non-governmental organization
dedicated to rebuilding hearts and homes (Youth in Reconstruction of a World
in Destruction-www.jrmd.org) has enabled over  1500 families to regain a
home, and Mike Seymour, President of the Heritage Institute (a progressive
educational
organization) in a partnership that is helping another 315 families to have
homes.  This partnership is also making possible the AfricaAmericaExchange
(www.hol.edu/aax) connecting students and schools in the USA and Burundi in
letter and email exchange as well as parallel curriculum around peace and
sustainability.

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Hello OS-List,

i have done my third OS-Event and it was interesting and also hard-working
for me. The Motto was: Learning, Working, Gender and Diversity-What`s the
threat?.

Why, it was hard working for me?
In my cognition was the client bringing themes, with orientation on results.
I said bring your heart-themes that`s your room. Use it. One chance, that
comes not every day with this people. But the clients wanted to have
results. Their was fear not to have good results. And so the client takes a
bit the leadership for responsability, like working with childrens. The
participants, weren`t so active and the client wanted to show their promotor
and the government results, that`s have an authorization for their work. So
they don`t want to have "bad results". After Half-Time comes an guy from
government and i should explain him OS in 2 sentences. He said to me, that
is not regular way, he his acustomated to give order and to get order. He
sit their with sceptic face and was after break never seen. It was
hard-working to stimulate and activate the participants and in the end,
there was a group of energy-flowing and this people like OS. Most of the
participants were not accustomated to take responsability or to bring up
their essentiel themes. Also it was hard to be in a building, where so much
people are working during the event. I asked why the people, most of them
strangers, don`t participate. Also the housekeepers and secretaires. No
answer.

I think sometimes the participants need more introduction more practise to
get their thems clear. My opinion is, that we need self-organisation to
create new networks and that we can learn it by practising. So my question.
I would like to come to a   Stammtisch, but Berlin is a bit far for me. Is
their some in near of Cologne/Köln? Or who is interested on making one?

Carlos from Köln

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