Country Programs – Page 41

Reverence for the Sacred Land: Part 1 – Inadequate responses to endemic violence in Central America

February 21, 2012

In Part 1 of this post, MCCer Tobias Roberts, in Nebaj, Guatemala, explores his contrasting experiences with urban life in Central America, and the inadequacies of the dominant responses to daily violence. In P...

Blessed are those who mourn: Thoughts from Honduras

February 15, 2012

Country Programs, Honduras, Urban Peacebuilding

Charissa Zehr, an MCC worker in Santa Rosa, Honduras, contemplates violence, mourning, and faith in this post from her blog on January 27, 2012 http://findinglempira.blogspot.com Blessed are those who mourn,...

PAZ in contexts of violence

February 9, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Urban Peacebuilding

Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, location of the MCC Retreat January 2012 Adriana Koehn is the Connecting Peoples Program Coordinator in MCC Guatemala. This article was posted on January 24 on their program website ...

Guatemala: How can the cycles of violence be broken?

February 2, 2012

Country Programs, Guatemala, Urban Peacebuilding

“It was like having to chose between cancer and AIDS.” This is the phrase I heard frequently during a recent trip when talking with Guatemalans about the impossible choice that voters had in the elections in N...

Home Part 2: Constructing “home” in Haiti

January 23, 2012

Country Programs, Haiti

Half a million internally displaced Haitians still live in camps two years after the earthquake. Photo by A. Wiebe January 12, 2012 was the second anniversary of the earthquake in Hait...

From Displacement Camps to Community in Haiti – Part 1 Policy Solutions

January 5, 2012

Country Programs, Haiti

Haitians actively claim the right to housing. Photo by Ben Depp January 12, 2012 will be the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. In this post, Alexis Erkert and Beverly Bell of Other Worlds, descri...

Two Blogs and One Book

December 13, 2011

Bolivia, Colombia, Country Programs, Guatemala

Here is some advocacy-related news from around MCC Latin America: community-based engagement in Colombia, community-corporation negotiations in Guatemala, and research for peace-building in Bolivia. Colombia ...

Migration Checkpoint

December 3, 2011

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration, Nicaragua

Miriam Harder has recently begun an MCC service assignment working in conservation agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico, and in Central America. In this blog, she recounts an encounter with the realities of immigrati...

Love your Enemies in Six Movements

November 28, 2011

Country Programs, Mexico, Urban Peacebuilding

This is a devotional that Marion Meyer shared at a gathering of MCC Connecting Peoples Coordinators in Honduras, September, 2011. Marion and her husband, Ricardo Torres, are the Country Representatives for MC...

Conflict of Reasonability – A Guatemalan Indigenous Community vs. an Italian Energy Corporation

November 17, 2011

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice

Tobias Roberts, MCC service worker in Guatemala, describes the contrasting worldviews that have led to the breakdown in negotiations between a Mayan community and an Italian corporation building a dam, and expl...

The Food We Share

Las piedras claman – Peace Camp, Akron | 10 al 15 de marzo

Stones Cry Out: Reflecting on Peace Camp, Akron | March 10-15

Earth Day 2025: Cultivating and consolidating peace in Colombia