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Current Approaches in Drama Therapy: 2nd Edition

by  //  Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 1:44 PM  //  Resources

By assorted authors including Armand Volkas, edited by David Johnson and Renee Emunah The second edition of Current Approaches in Drama Therapy offers a revised and updated comprehensive compilation of the primary drama therapy methods and models that are being utilized and taught in the United States and Canada, including four new approaches… A distinct […]

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Piecework: A Woman’s Peace Theology

by  //  Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 11:24 AM  //  Resources

By several authors including Wendy Kroeker A book of letters, conversations and reflections about peace from a feminist Mennonite perspective.  This 80-page book written by seven Mennonite women from across Canada. They vary in age and relate at different levels to the church. All share a background in theological studies. http://www.amazon.com/Piecework-A-Womens-Peace-Theology/dp/0968308015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292014752&sr=1-1

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Justpeace Ethics: A Guide to Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding

by  //  Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 11:23 AM  //  Resources

By Jarem Sawatsky Drawing on the imaginations of some leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, Justpeace Ethics identifies components of a justpeace imagination—the basis of an alternative ethics, where the end is touched with each step. In this simple companion to justpeace ethics, Jarem Sawatsky helps those struggling with how to respond to conflict and […]

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Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice

by  //  Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 10:36 AM  //  Resources

By Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell The principle of hospitality and the commandment to welcome the stranger are among the most consistent themes of the Bible. How does that apply to the question of undocumented immigrants in our own country? In alternating chapters Myers examines the biblical dimensions of hospitality, sanctuary, the crossing of borders, […]

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Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. 2: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

by  //  Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 10:33 AM  //  Resources

 By Elaine Enns and Ched Myers This volume offers three social-analytic models and nine profiles of contemporary practitioners of restorative justice and peacemaking. “People who work in conflict resolution rarely realize the potential restorative justice offers for addressing the justice dynamics inherent in conflict. Likewise, peacemakers may write off justice advocates as trouble-makers, while non-violent […]

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Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. 1: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

by  //  Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 10:32 AM  //  Resources

By Elaine Enns and Ched Myers This volume offers four N.T. studies on restorative justice and peacemaking (2 Cor 5-6; Mark 1-3; Matt 18; and Ephesians). “Exceedingly rare and a precious gift to church and world is Myers and Enns’ wondrous mixing of ravenous hunger for justice, patient and practical wisdom in restoring justice and […]

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Global Nonviolent Action Database (GNAD)

by  //  Tuesday, May 1, 2012 @ 11:36 AM  //  Resources

Go to http://NVDatabase.swarthmore.edu to access a free global database of nonviolent actions.  Campaigns are drawn from nearly every country in the world, in which people overthrew dictators, changed environmental policies, halted racist discrimination, fought for economic justice, established their religious freedom, changed sexist and other oppressive laws, established national independence, and defended their neighborhoods – […]

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