Resources

Conflict transformation

•  Reconcile – Moving Forward in Peace, the 2015 Lent Course of the Diocese of Wau, Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan.
• CONCORD for Peace and Reconciliation: a Lent course created by the Diocese of Wau in the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, 2014
• 'Addressing gender-based violence in West African Peace Processes: A guidance note for mediators': Addressing conflict-related gender-based violence means 'getting the past right', but also recognising broader structural injustices that should be transformed through the peace process. This toolkit published in February 2013 by the Crisis Management Centre, Finland, and the West African Network for Peacebuilding, Ghana, relates to conflicts in West Africa, but could apply to all contexts where gender-based violence has been a significant manifestation of the conflict.

• Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer
  by Michael Lapsley with Stephen Karakashian. Orbis Books 2012, ISBN-10: 1570759928; ISBN-13: 978-1570759925.

  In 1990, Fr Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest and monastic from New Zealand, exiled to Zimbabwe because of his anti-apartheid work in South Africa, opened a package and was immediately struck by the blast of an explosion. The bomb blasted away both his hands and one of his eyes. His memoir tells the story of this horrendous event, the journey that led him there, and his subsequent journey over the last two decades. Returning to South Africa, Fr Lapsley discovered his new vocation to become a wounded healer, drawing on his own experience to promote the healing of other victims of violence and trauma. In 1993 Fr Lapsley became chaplain to the Trauma Centre for Victims of Violence and Torture in Cape Town, which assisted South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This led to the founding of the Institute for the Healing of Memories which seeks to facilitate the healing process of individuals and communities in South Africa and internationally. www.healing-memories.org.

   Notes from an address by Dr Jenny Plane Te Paa at the Aotearoa New Zealand launch of 'Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer' at Selwyn Library, Auckland.

• Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: An Emerging Issue For The Anglican Communion 
  A paper by Bishop Terry M Brown, Anglican Church of Melanesia, August 2012
  
  
•  Knowledge about Conflict and Peace:
  An introduction to a basic understanding of relationships between conflict and peace, and of the processes needed to address conflict and seek peace
  
  
•  Creative Peacemaking
  Information about the Episcopal Peace Fellowship (USA), its mission and commitment to the spirituality and practice of active nonviolence.
  
  
•  From the Ashes of Coventry Cathedral
  Information about the ministry of reconciliation of the Community of the Cross of Nails, and the work of Cross of Nails centres across the world
  
  
•  Interfaith Relations as a Tool for Justice
  
  
•  Some Resources and Models for Conflict Transformation
  
  
•  Agents of Transforming Justice and Peace
  This study guide was developed by the Anglican Church of Southern Africa for Lent 2009 but has relevance for any time of the year. It explores key themes of reconciliation, forgiveness, healing, justice, love and peace, and includes prayers, texts from Scripture and reflections and stories relating to them, and discussion questions.

Just, participatory and sustainable society

•  'Agents of Transforming Justice and Love': A series of six Bible studies for Lent from the Anglican Church of Southern Africa on the themes of Love (Mark 12.28-34); Peace (1 Peter 3.10-12); Justice (Micah 6.8); Forgiveness (Matthew 18.21-35); Reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5.16-21); and Healing (John 5.1-9).
  
  
•  Theological Education as a tool for embedding a Peace and Justice consciousness in the life of the Church
  
  
•  The New Dimensions of Age

Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) resolutions

•  Anglican Consultative Council resolution 15.11: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and related activities (November 2012)
•  During its 14th meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, in May 2009, the Anglican Consultative Council passed a number of resolutions concerned with issues highlighted by the Anglican Peace and Justice Network.