Enabling Christ-Centered Conflict Resolution
Backstory
60 years of war and harsh Sharia Law have traumatized the Nuba people have created a culture where violence is the default way to address conflict. Local leaders need training to learn how to pursue peace and reconciliation in ways that restore relationships and build trust. Jesus, the Prince of Peace, provides a compelling example and practical wisdom for doing this. Leaders across Muslim, Tribal, and Christian communities can come together to learn and apply Jesus’ approach to the problems facing their people.
Using his Masters Degree training in Peace and Reconciliation from Eastern Mennonite University, Bishop Andudu has developed a series of week-long peace-building workshops in which participants tackle the most challenging problems in their communities and apply Jesus’ life and example to address those problems. Through these workshops, community, government, and military leaders learn how to engage the problems in their communities to promote respect and well-being of all people.
Goals
- Sponsor multiple peace-building workshops across the Nuba Mountains.
Updates
Total support to Peace Building since we started: $68,457
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- Multiple peace building workshops held in Tobo County.
- Tobo leaders (primarily Islamic) invite the Diocese of Kadugli to provide evangelists and priests to help start churches and schools in the region
- Methodist leadership in the region askes to become part of the Diocese of Kadugli
School children in Tobo and Bishop Andudu
- Peace and Reconciliation Committee helps five tribal chiefs join hands to pursue peace in Hiban. The effort continus to bear fruit and is instrumental in the formation of the new Diocese of Hiban in 2024.
- Leaders of Tobo county invite +Andudu to conduct workshops there in 2024; Tobo is a region where the Christian faith was banished by Islamic extremists for over 60 years.
Tribal Chiefs holding hands at Peace Building Workshop
- Multiple peacebuilding workshops with senior government, community, and military (SPLA) leadership (in Kurchi and Hiban)
- Bishop Andudu forms a Peace and Reconciliation Committee to resolve violent conflict between Tiro and Otoro Tribes. This conflict resulted in 24 deaths in Hiban region; Bishop Andudu begins meetings with tribal chiefs involved in the conflict.
- First workshop in the Ewartang region after years of persecution and attacks by Islamic-centric Government of Sudan forces.
Bishop Andudu uses a picture of a tree and its roots to help leaders understand that they must understand the root causes of the conflict in order to change the fruit of the tree.