Called to Disrupt

& Why we support LOCAL PEACEBUILDERS FOR THE LONG TERM. End of financial year appeal.

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The communities we work with face cycles of violence enforced by co-opted narratives, uneven distribution of resources, and divisive rhetoric. These are not straightforward linear problems, they are reinforcing loops where one injustice feeds the next.

We've recently been working with partners in Jos, Nigeria to map the forces that draw youth into conflict. By identifying these systems, we can begin to name them and work together with others to disrupt them.

The church has always had two hands. One tends to those who suffer, feeding, sheltering, caring. The other is prophetic, naming injustice, refusing to let our faith be co-opted into structural violence.

Join us on 16 June to explore what it looks like for the church to hold both hands together: the pastoral and the prophetic, mercy and justice, compassion and disruption.

Who?

  • Working with youth and families in the Bourj Hammoud area of Beirut in a Peace Centre, through sports clubs and through trauma care to provide safe and dedicated spaces to foster intergroup relationship between Christian, Sunni Muslim and Shia Muslim groups in Beirut. 🌐asrisala.org

  • Working in urban slum regions of Kenya with children, teachers and primary schools on initiatives to address trauma caused by witnessing or experiencing violence, and with churches to promote faith-inspired peacebuilding and reconciliation throughout Kenyan communities. 

  • CRUDAN is a holistic development and peacebuilding ministry working across Nigeria. With over 206 member churches and faith groups working with them, CRUDAN coordinates national church-based projects which help to prevent violent conflict and promote peaceful coexistence across ethnic, religious and gender divides. 🌐crudan.org

  • CHiPS (Christian International Peace Service) emphasise ‘absorbing communal enmity’ through their approach to peacemaking. They have projects in Nakpayli, Ghana which focus on bringing the Konkomban and Nanumban people groups together to address issues facing the whole community around poverty and healthcare. They also run projects to elevate the voices of young people in Brixton, London and to reduce gang violence through tackling social and economic inequality. 🌐chipspeace.org

  • Kent’s Computer Training Centres (KCT Centres) is an initiative of Christian Faith Ministries. These centres are established as community projects to bring together Christian and Muslim youth in seven local areas that have experienced high levels of ethno-religious conflict in recent years. They equip young people with ICT training skills and also embed peacebuilding and community cohesion skills into the curriculum to help build dialogue and foster trusting interfaith relationships.

How?

  • We provide funding to our partners in two areas; to support Crises Response, and to support organisational capacity building.

  • We provide our partners with support and technical coaching around Monitoring, Evaluating and Learning processes in their local peacebuilding work.

  • We provide our partners with tailored training for their staff and volunteers involved in local peacebuilding in the areas of: conflict analysis, systems thinking, ME&L, data collection and participatory analysis of the effectiveness of their approach.

  • We support our partners with sourcing and installing technologies to help them in their work and to encourage them to innovate through their learnings.

  • We support our partners with translating state of the art research in the disciplines of religion, faith, theology, mission and peacebuilding into actionable practice.