Global Anabaptist Peace Network
On 12th October 2021, the Global Anabaptist Peace Network (GAPN)—an emerging network of peace organizations and agencies connected to Mennonite World Conference (MWC)—organized a webinar called “Ubíquese”. By choosing the name “Ubíquese” in Spanish—which could be translated as “place yourself” in English—the goal of the webinar was to inspire the discussion about what it means to witness to peace in times of the Covid-19 pandemic and in concrete contexts dealing with past or present injustice.
The webinar had two main contents as focal points: Canada (particularly on discussions around the past and present injustices against indigenous peoples) and Colombia (specially on the recent national protests, the cases of police brutality, and the implementation of the peace accord). Two peace activists from each context were invited to reflect on key challenges for peacebuilding in those realities, on how they were participating in addressing them, and on how they envisioned the idea that an international network or the international community could “be in solidarity” with these two contexts.
For more information on the GAPN, see [here]
Written by: Dr. Andrés Pacheco, post-doc researcher at ACRPJ
