P2: Planning For Peace takes the Just Peacemaking theory to generate rule sets to guide our planning process. By turning the nouns into verbs, we seek to turn theory into practice. Our framework, based on several ingredients, becomes a framework for listening: desire for mercy; a vocation of humility; responding out of compassion (willingness to engage suffering honestly); doing justice as an act of love for the other (seeking to restore victim and victimizer in new relationship); inviting; seek to be concrete and particular (dignity of persons); and seek to understand the historical formational contexts. These are our proposed rule sets.
In the coming weeks we propose to take each rule set, unpack it and present it to you the community. We hope that you will be able to help us gain greater clarity in understanding each rule set and how best to use it (ruler) as a means to measure success.
December 9, 2007 at 3:21 am |
Most of those who claim to believe in Peace may not have accepted the challenged to actually do something to make Peace happen. And the Just War theorists – do they see anything but the “how far can we go” before we get to force our form of righteousness/beliefs on the enemy? I suspect my true feelings are pessimistic that the “big guys” of the world can learn to make peace. But, my hope is with you and I look forward to learning more as you unfold this theory here for us to read.