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At his death at 95 years of age, Nelson Mandela is being lionized as a freedom fighter, hero, and saint by the western media. The message is that his uniting of all South Africans into a rainbow nation after he came to power in 1994 was a remarkable act of reconciliation when revenge and retaliation was what could have been READ MORE

I was somewhat apprehensive about my trip to Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. This was not because of safety issues (the only fear I had was in exiting from the Washington, DC beltway across four lanes of rushing traffic of the Dulles Toll Road to get on to the Dulles Airport access road), but rather that, as an American living in READ MORE

Note: Tonight I am flying to Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria for ten days where there has been significant deadly Christian/Muslim conflict. I have been invited by the AVP program, and will give eight talks including presentations to the Mennonite Central Committee and the Church of the Brethren. I will be trying to convince them that they need to begin offereing READ MORE

Note: This is an article distributed yesterday by Foreign Policy in Focus of the Institute of Policy Studies. Given the roots of the ongoing conflict in North Kivu, military victory amounts to exchanging one group of exploiters for another. By David Zarembka, November 14, 2013. When the M23 rebel group surrendered in early November after its defeat by the Congolese READ MORE

This all happened in 2006 before I was writing my Reports from Kenya, but I thought that this might be of interest to my readers – the death of my mother-in-law, Selina Imali. In the fall of 2006, we were still living in St Louis. When Gladys talked to her six sisters, they told us that their Mom was sick READ MORE

Note: The first part of this report is an email I received yesterday from Getry Agizah and the work she is doing. This is followed by AGLI’s fall fundraising letter, which also highlights Getry’s work. What is so amazing about all of this is that, while Kenya is a very paternalist society with major discrimination’s against women, Getry just wades READ MORE

By Wilson Ngaria Note: Peacemaking work is not only about wars and overt violence, but also about cultural and structural violence. It is also not always about multitudes of people, but more often, actually, about single or a few individuals. Here is one small campaign in a community near my home, spearheading by two of our local, Kenyan peacemakers, Wilson READ MORE

Posted by Foreign Policy in Focus of the Institute of Policy Studies. In the wake of the horrific Westgate Mall attack, some nationalist Kenyan politicians are calling for reprisals against the country’s Somalis–many of whom are native Kenyans. By David Zarembka, October 21, 2013. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent fell victim READ MORE

Program: Alternative to Violence Training Venue: Kakuma Friends Church Refugee Camp Dates: August 4, 2013- August 20, 2013 Facilitators: Peter Serete, Eunice Okwemba and Bernard Onjala Kakuma is a small town located in the desert in northwestern Kenya. Historically it is believed to be where anthropologists hypothesize the human race began. The Kenyan government picked the area for use as READ MORE

Update on No “Cake Walk” for Kenya in Somalia: As you may note from my posting last Friday that was requested by Foreign Policy in Focus of the Institute of Policy Studies, it was sent out on their wire service as a progressive alternative to the mainstream media and the right-wing think tanks. As a result my article was picked READ MORE