Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution

“Before finishing mass, I announced that there would be a march through the city and that itwas very important that everyone take part. We had to demand that our innocent teachers be set free….Because of [my] ministry, I was kidnapped…, tortured, and beaten almost to death."

FSSCA founder, Chencho Alas, has worked more than 30 years to transform problems of violence, poverty, and hunger in his native country, El Salvador. A community organizer and former Catholic priest, he today works openly to transform problems of violence, poverty, and hunger in his native country. But he hasn’t always had this luxury. For years, he operated under constant harassment, in full knowledge that his nonviolent activism could get him killed.

In the year 2000, Chencho received the Peace Activist Award from the Tannenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. The Tannenbaum Center's new book, Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution, dedicates its first chapter, "Peasant Power," to Chencho's work.

Peacemakers in Action includes the experiences of 15 other remarkable religious peacemakers who have put their lives on the line in conflicts around the world—from Israel-Palestine to Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Sudan, South Africa—and beyond. For each of them, religious texts and traditions have served both as a source of inspiration and as a practical resource in resolving conflict.

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