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Peacemakers are individuals and organizations involved in peacemaking, often in countries affected by war, violent conflict, and political instability. [1] They engage in processes such as negotiation, mediation, conciliation , and arbitration —drawing on international law and norms.
Community Peacemaker Teams or CPT (previously called Christian Peacemaker Teams) is an international organization set up to support teams of peace workers in conflict areas around the world. The organization uses these teams to achieve its aims of lower levels of violence, nonviolent direct action , human rights documentation and nonviolence ...
Peacemaking is a practical conflict transformation focused upon establishing equitable power relationships robust enough to forestall future conflict, often including the establishment of means of agreeing on ethical decisions within a community, or among parties, that had previously engaged in inappropriate (i.e. violent) responses to conflict.
Gene Stoltzfus (October 19, 2008). Mervin Eugene "Gene" Stoltzfus (February 1, 1940 – March 10, 2010) was an American peace activist, international development worker, founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), and pioneer in the international peace team movement.
Examples of consociational agreements can be seen in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lebanon. In an effort to de-emphasise the importance of ethnicity, critics of consociationalism such as Brian Barry , Donald L. Horowitz , and to a certain extent, Roland Paris, have developed their own brands of constitutional peacebuilding that ...
Helen Thomas (1966–1989) – Welsh peace activist who died after being hit by a police vehicle at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp; Dorothy Thompson (1923–2011) – English historian and peace activist; Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) – American writer, philosopher, inspiration to movement leaders
The Irish actor has clinched his first Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer.
Jacob was not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when The Peace Maker was published. However, Jacob and his family had lived among the Latter Day Saints in Chautauqua County, New York, in the early 1830s and in the Latter Day Saint region of Hancock County, Illinois throughout the period of settlement there.