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GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE

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Zimbabwe: Christian denominations launch peace initiative
un article par Winstone Antonio, The Standard, Zimbabwe (reprinted by permission)

The programme is dubbed the Ecumenical Peace Observation Initiative in Zimbabwe (Epoiz) .


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ZHOCD director, Tendaiwo Maregere told The Standard at Gokwe Centre last week that the nation had gone through difficult times which required churches to take an initiative to ensure that peace prevails.

“With the Epoiz initiative, we seek to strengthen and amplify churches joint advocacy voices, facilitating stronger coordination of various efforts for peace while promoting free and peaceful citizen participation in national processes, particularly elections and referenda,” Maregere said. “The goal of this initiative is to promote an enduring culture of peace in Zimbabwe and facilitate national healing, forgiveness and reconciliation.”

He said the programme would see officials touring seven provinces in the country to preach the gospel of peace and reconciliation. “We have selected seven provinces at the moment, among them Masvingo, Hwange, Mashonaland West, Bulawayo and Midlands. The selection criteria was based on the conflicts experienced in the recent past with the need to conscientise such communities to a climate of tolerance and peaceful co-existence,” Maregere said.

“It is essential that the church initiates the process of healing, forgiveness, reconciliation and peace building in its endeavour to develop a culture of peace in Zimbabwe.”

Maregere said the project would incorporate church, traditional and political parties, government, civil society, business, security sector, media, congregants and communities.

ZHOCD research and advocacy officer Tendayi Bobo said the programme has so far received an overwhelming response from people and other stakeholders. m“We have been in Rusape, Hwange and Karoi preaching the gospel of peace and people in those areas embraced the project,” Bobo said. “Our aim is to bring violence perpetrators and victims under one roof and educate them about the culture of peace in national processes.”

ZHOCD is a conglomeration of four umbrella church bodies comprising Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ), the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC), Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) and the Union for the Development of Apostolic and Zionist Churches in Zimbabwe (Udaciza) as associate members of ZHOCD that was launched last year.

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CPNN receives more and more articles from Africa about initiatives that contest the European model of "winner-takes-all" elections, and demand that elections should only be part of a broader democratic process that seeks consensus and compromise.

This fits with the pre-colonial systems of justice in Africa, when there was no monotheism and no single supreme god, no single supreme law, no single "truth" provided by divine intervention, but rather a compromise among many different "gods," perspectives and "truths" arrived at through a process of mediation, for example, the "palabra."


Cet article a été mis en ligne le October 15, 2014.