Category: Peacebuilders
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May Food Distribution for Sudanese Refugees
Our food distribution this May reached 425 Sudanese refugee families. 735 families need assistance in June, which raises our fundraising goal. Can you help?
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Weekend Read: Strategic Signs for Protests
Picketing is a staple of nonviolent action in the United States. At intersections, along busy streets, on highway overpasses, small to midsized groups of people scrawl a message on cardboard in sharpie. Take time this weekend to consider a messaging strategy for such signs.
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Peace through Weakness
Peace through strength is a foreign policy doctrine that calls for military superiority to deter aggression, which the Trump Administration now brazenly proclaims using hostile, threatening rhetoric by leaders loudly self-defining as Christian. Let us instead lift up Jesus and his words and actions in the face of threats of violence and acts of war.
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TRAID Received April Funds & Update
Trauma Rescue Aid continues serving Sudanese refugee families in Uganda, thanks to the generous support of our global community of care. Learn the latest in this update from the team leader.
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Faith, Forgiveness, & Peacebuilding in Lebanon, 5/14 @ 9 am ET
You are invited to this month’s Christian Peacebuilding Network meeting where Ramy Taleb, founder of Al Shabiba Risala (ASR), a grassroots movement equipping young people across Lebanon to become peacebuilders in the midst of ongoing fragility and division, will share about his peacebuilding journey.
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Call Congress: No Funds for War with Iran
Congress has not authorized this war of choice, despite our tax dollars paying for it. With the Pentagon confirming the war costs at least $1 billion per day and the Trump administration may request additional funding, legislators need to hear from constituents that War is Not the Answer and we will not pay for it.
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TRAID’s Child Safe Space Program
Trauma Rescue Aid currently runs a Child Safe Space Program for refugee and internally displaced children affected by the war in Sudan.
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Women’s Bodies as Battlefields
Read Kaka’s story on International Women’s Day. Please call on all governments & militaries to lay down their weapons. War is not the way. #Sudan #WomensDay #RSF #SAF #WarIsNotTheWay #EndWar #RedefineSecurity #CollectiveCare #TraumaRescueAid #TRAID #Refugees #KeepEyesOnSudan
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The Steps of Nonviolent Organizing: Crafting a Values-Driven Campaign for Social Change, 3/1 @ 3-6 pm ET
This weekend, join us for a 3-hour interactive, participatory workshop on steps of nonviolent organizing. Explore vision & values, how this shapes your action, learn & practice 6 main steps of a nonviolent campaign for social change.
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Peacebuilder’s Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, May 11-22, Apply by 3/31
The Peacebuilder’s Pilgrimage to the Holy Land is an immersive learning journey through the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, led by experienced peacebuilding practitioners. This unique pilgrimage goes beyond traditional site-seeing to engage deeply with the present-day realities on the ground, allowing participants to witness firsthand the efforts for peace and justice in a deeply…
Seeds Will Grow 