Peace Building Institute - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:29:48 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Peace Building Institute - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Some "not ordinary women" return from peace building study https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/07/02/cwl-host-dinner-some-not-ordinary-women-returning-from-peace-building-study/ Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:30:51 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=46301

Catholic Women's League's Susana Evening and Asela Naisara recently hosted a dinner to welcome back the Pacific women who have been studying peace building at the Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. The group included Magdalene Toroansi, former minister for women from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville; West Papua human rights activist, Olga Hamadi; Solomon Islands Read more

Some "not ordinary women" return from peace building study... Read more]]> Catholic Women's League's Susana Evening and Asela Naisara recently hosted a dinner to welcome back the Pacific women who have been studying peace building at the Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia.

The group included Magdalene Toroansi, former minister for women from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville; West Papua human rights activist, Olga Hamadi; Solomon Islands youth worker, Veronique Maebiru, and from Fiji, Anareta Apole, Menka Goundan, Alisi Daveta and Justine Maravu.

Fay Volatabu, the general secretary for the National Council of Women, writing in the Fiji Times said "I take my hat off to these women! It's not easy leaving children and families to the care of someone else to go study peace building in another country even if its only for eight weeks. And these are not ordinary women — these are women who feel deeply and are burdened for their countries as evidenced by their postings on Facebook."

The Women's Peace-building Leadership (WPL) Program sponsored the women. It is run by the Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding, and is co-ordinated by National Council of Women Fiji executive, Vani Catanasiga .

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Elizabeth Krishna, 52, of Fiji,who works through the Catholic Church to combat unemployment and crime and close the gap between rich and poor, was one of 16 women from five regions in the South Pacific who attended the 2013 Summer Peace building Institute (SPI) at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), May 6 -June 14. Krishna says, " for me, it's always Read more

Fiji's Elizabeth Krishna at Summer Peace building Institute... Read more]]> Elizabeth Krishna, 52, of Fiji,who works through the Catholic Church to combat unemployment and crime and close the gap between rich and poor, was one of 16 women from five regions in the South Pacific who attended the 2013 Summer Peace building Institute (SPI) at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), May 6 -June 14.

Krishna says, " for me, it's always [an] exciting and enriching experience to be able to share the work that I do."

During the program, Krishna had a chance to share her work with Winston Thompson, Fiji's ambassador to the United States, who visited EMU on June 2.

"I felt great that he was here," she said. "That feedback from him will go back to our minister of foreign affairs, so that's a great opportunity."

Equality and respect for women - rather than violence inflicted upon them - ranks high as an aspiration of women from the Pacific who attended the 2013 Summer Peacebuilding Institute. Their other goals included:

  • respect for human rights and restorative justice instead of police brutality and imprisonment without due process;
  • true democracy instead of military, dictatorial, or colonial rule;
  • sustainable development that benefits the islands' inhabitants, instead of environmentally destructive extraction of natural resources by foreign companies;
  • and healing for current and historical trauma.
  • respect for human rights and restorative justice instead of police brutality and imprisonment without due process;
  • true democracy instead of military, dictatorial, or colonial rule;
  • sustainable development that benefits the islands' inhabitants, instead of environmentally destructive extraction of natural resources by foreign companies;
  • and healing for current and historical trauma.

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