by Tom DeWolf | Jul 18, 2016 | Coming to the Table, Peacebuilding, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
More people dying. More funerals. More tears. More rage. More division. More frustration. Many of us feel numb and helpless in the wake of the recent killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota by the police,...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 29, 2015 | Peacebuilding, Race, Oppression, Privilege
I remember the moment well. I was 14-years old. The 1968 Olympics in Mexico City were astounding. I was a fledgling long- and high-jumper in junior high school. When Bob Beamon broke the long jump world record – not by inches, but by almost two FEET – it...
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 31, 2014 | Peacebuilding, Trauma and Healing
Yesterday I received an email from Daryl Byler, Executive Director of the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding (CJP) at Eastern Mennonite University. EMU is a place I have studied and will continue to study issues of trauma, restorative justice, conflict resolution,...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 15, 2011 | Gather at the Table, Peacebuilding
When the Nobel committee in Norway announced that this year’s Peace Prize was being awarded to three women, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, African peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and pro-democracy campaigner Tawakul Karman of Yemen, I was thrilled. Only...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 24, 2011 | History, Genealogy, Peacebuilding
White man with a guitar leans on black man playing a saxophone. Both are dressed in black and white clothes. White album cover. Everything about the Born to Run album cover is black and white. Very little about Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons was. They...
by Tom DeWolf | May 3, 2011 | Peacebuilding, Trauma and Healing
When Belvie told me over the phone about her experience with “healing constellations” at a conference she recently attended in Boston I didn’t really get it. “It’s hard to explain” she said. Then she told me she invited the man who...
