Messengers of Peace: Inspiring Stories of Africans Creating Peace - Brossura

Waleed, DeEtte Beghtol

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0615528880 ISBN 13: 9780615528885

Casa editrice: Deette Waleed, 2011

Riassunto

These stories introduce you to the true heroes and heroines of Africa. Your heart will be broken open by amazing tales of everyday courage and compassion. These stories are all based on real people and real situations. Each one provides a model for grassroots peacebuilding from personal to international. You will meet "Zuze," a man who came to the refugee camp as a teenager and now heads a family with teenage children. They are still confined to the prison without walls which is the refugee camp. He agonizes at the thought of still more generations of his family separated from their homeland. Yet he turns his frustration into leadership, teaching students of many ages how to resolve conflicts. The story of "Selline" takes us to Kenya and details the struggle of brave women to change traditional practices of Female Genital Mutilation. Selline and networks of women's groups rescue fleeing "FGM refugees" and work to reconcile families and replace repressive practices with healthy initiation rituals. "Leon" is a courageous Congolese government official who risked his life to escape from an oppressive regime. He and his family left a life of luxury and privilege to live in a snake-infested grain warehouse in a refugee camp because his conscience would no longer let him serve an unjust leader. "Novas" is a child in Zambia. African children, like novas in the night sky, go from being hardly visible to amazing us with their brightness. Novas gets caught up in the collision of cultural expectations and the AIDS epidemic. In the same way "Eddie" finds himself entangled in ethnic clashes between Tutsis and Hutus that stretch far beyond national borders. A Congolese young man who flees the civil war in his country finds himself the enemy in a refugee camp because he is half-Tutsi and half-Hutu. He learns that fighting back doesn't solve the problem but peacebuilding does. "Francoise" is an attractive young woman caught up in ethnic conflicts within her own country, as well as c

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Deette Waleed
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615528880
• ISBN 13: 9780615528885
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 116