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Vision & Concept

We offer a strategy for holistic conflict resolution in the world. You are invited to join us:

We offer a way to holistic conflict resolution.

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Peace and Reconciliation – Concept and Vision

Ask you to partner with us in peace building and reconciliation!

We see a problem:A world in unrest and people in distress.

AGENDA

The Peace and Reconciliation Network (PRN) of the WEA is establishing a worldwide structure to enhance peace and reconciliation.

1. The World in UnrestAs conflicts increase in the world, it is clear that processes of peace and reconciliation are crucial elements in creating abetter future.

2. Frame of ReferenceFaith communities, and in particular, evangelical churches, have enormous potential to be agents of peace and reconciliation if they are tapped, unleashed.

3. Our Vision & MissionIn order to allow this potential to be reached, our goal is to strengthen evangelical communities and enable the Church to be an agent of transformation for communities around the globe.

4. Our Contribution to a SolutionWe engage in peace-building worldwide by empowering the global Evangelical Church to engage in conflict resolution in their particular communities and beyond.

5. The WEA Forms a Worldwide Peace Movement The global, regional, national and local levels of Evangelical Alliances provide the structure for a network for peace and reconciliation.

6. Our Strategy (TRAIN)Teaching peace and reconciliation processes, Restoration in communities post-conflict, Assisting with resources and personnel, Initiating peace alliances, Networking for knowledge and resource transfer

7. Goals, Budget and Staff DevelopmentThe PRN has established a base for peace and reconciliation intervention teams in all regions of the WEA and has ambitious plans for further development including employing 31 full time staff members. This will require 14.0 million USD between 2017and 2024. Foundations are being established to facilitate growth.

8. Budget 2017The cost for consultations, conferences, travel, staff and office equipment is 242,000 USD. Projects have been planned for Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, and Pakistan.

9. Your EngagementYou can partner with the PRN in several ways: Pray intentionally, share your insight and knowledge, connect potential partners to build PRN’s capacity, invest financially.

3EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


We see 5 sources of conflict: Inner-/intercultural and religious tensions, misleading politics, injustice, misuse of power and exclusion of faith.

41. THE WORLD IN UNREST

Cultural and

religious

tensions

Angry

politics

Access

to resources

Power

struggles

Wrong

perspective on

faith

Due to globalization

cultures mingle

creating areas of

tension.

Societies turn back to

nationalism and

protectionist politics.

The access to

relevant life resources

is unjustly distributed.

The haves and have

not’s are in conflict.

Conflict parties are

involved in proxy wars

protecting their

economic and

political interests.

Traditionally, the

development industry

has excluded faith.

Faith has been cast as

a source of conflict.

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Source: www.warsintheworld.com; heidelberg international conflict research (HIIK)

We come first!


Our world

in unrest

Need for better

solutions

Undetected

resources of faith

communities

Unused potential of

the global

Evangelical

movement

The rise of local, national and international conflict zones is

unprecedented.

There is growinguncertainty among conflict resolution

agencies about how to build peace in areas of unrest.

There is great potential for peace building and conflict resolution in faith

communities around the world.

The potential for peace building of millions of Evangelicals has yet to

be fully unleashed, though many live in conflict areas.

Our proposal is to acknowledge the potential of faith communities and motivate them towards peace building.

52. FRAME OF REFERENCE

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WEAWorld Evangelical Alliance

We come first!


We see peacemakers working globally united towards conflict resolutions, bringing restoration, justice and peace into local communities.

Vision

We envision a global network of Evangelical Christians

united in mission and effective in voice on local, national, regional and global

Peace and Reconciliation issues resulting in Christ-like transformation

of communities.

63. OUR VISION AND OUR MISSION

Mission

We exist to strengthenthe Evangelical Alliance

at world, regional, national and local levels, promoting and establishing

Peace and Reconciliation Networks, where they do not yet exist,

in order to enable the Church to advance the Good News

of the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, and effect personal and communitytransformation for the glory of God.

We believe that the global Evangelical movement has the capacity to bring peace and reconciliation to places which have been in unrest for too long. United in faith we share values which underline the emphasis on the need of reconciliation and forgiveness which both is a fundamental condition towards peace.

Source: worldea.org


74. OUR CONTIBUTION TO A SOLUTION

• The Christian

community forms

the largest and

most influential

faith community

and wields

enormous

resources.

• Our approach is

two-fold: building

& strengthening

alliances through

networking and

implementing the

‘TRAIN’ strategy.

• We engage in peace-building worldwide by empowering the global Evangelical Church to engage in conflict resolution

and becoming agents for peace in their particular communities and beyond.

• In order to meet the challenges global conflicts present, we seek to establish a network of all peace-seeking people on

earth regardless of their ethnic, social, economic or religious status for the development of an inclusive peace movement.

Source:

The global Evangelical movement has the potential to contribute to conflict resolution in the world when empowered and united.

Grafic and numbers for diagram from http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/ 17.02.2107; atlasofglobalchristianity.org; World Christian Encyclopedia - A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in The Modern World; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christian_distribution_maps_of_the_world; https://www.lausanne.org/lgc-transfer/number-of-evangelicals-worldwide

Other Religions; 0,8

Hindus; 15

Muslims; 23,2

Buddhist; 7,1

Folk religions; 5,9

Christians; 31,5

Unaffiliated; 16,3


The global network of reconciled and united people has the capacity to work for peace in local communities in the world.

Layers of the network

85. THE WEA FORMS A WORLDWIDE PEACE MOVEMENT

• 1 global organisation

• 8 regions:

• Asia

• Africa

• Caribbean

• Central Asia

• Europe

• Latin America

• North Africa & Middle East

• North America

• South Pacific

• 129 nations

• 600 million Evangelicals

Reconciling communities who suffer under circumstances of cultural and religious tensions, unjustly distributed resources, politically aggressive mind-sets or from the lack of power, require peace agents:

People who are at peace and who are reconciled with their own story as well as with other people. Such people have the abilities and resources to be agents of change for peace and reconciliation.

Global capacity building and developing strategic models for integral

and transformative community development

Regional sharing of support and experience, facilitating national

programmes and advocating for national partners

Implementing National programmes and providing resources for other

national contexts to learn from and adapt as needed

Local transformation towards a peaceful community through the

outworking of programmes and network capacity

Source: worldea.org


Our strategy (TRAIN) includes five key tools to empower the actors to be involved in peacebuilding and transformation of communities.

Shaping a vision and developing of Teachingprogrammes and tools on Peace and Reconciliation in Evangelical training centers worldwide together with partners of the WEA.

96. OUR STRATEGY

Initiation of local, national and international initiatives on peace and reconciliation on the basis of national and regional EvangelicalAlliances.

Assistance to agents involved in P&R by providing resources and personnel if available.

Restoration in areas of conflict or unrest, by initiating and facilitating initiatives of peace and reconciliation in cooperation with global and/or national and/or local partners of the WEA.

Promoting Networkingwith all respected Christian, Evangelical, and secular initiatives on peace and reconciliation.

In order to bring peace and restoration it is a need to equip local and national players with new capacities. Then they are able to engage with their community in unrest. TRAIN not only helps to assists actors for peace and restoration but also to initiate alliances where there is no peace initiative existent. It uses resources from the global network to teach and to establish centres to train them.


The PRN is currently establishing an operating structure for peace andreconciliation and has ambitious goals for its development.

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2017

7. GOALS, BUDGET AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT

20222018 202420202019 2021 2023

Fulltime emloyees

Budget (in USD)

2 31

242k 500k 750k 1.000k 1.250k 2.000k 2.250k 2.500k 14,000,000 USD

Central office: 10

Each region 3: 21

*English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Arabic, Hindi and Russian

The PRN has established a base for peace and reconciliation intervention teams in all regions of the WEA.

The PRN has engaged in peace and reconciliation activities around the world.

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In 2017 the development of the PRN requires a total expense of 242,000 USD.

118. BUDGET 2017

Traveling fund

Regional Consultation in Central Asia (October)

National Consultation in Russia

Conference on Reconciliation in Kiev, Ukraine (April)

Regional Conference in Moldova

National Consultation in Pakistan (March)

Meetings of the International Advisory Team

Office requirements including hard and software package

Director of Development

Director of PRN

50.000 USD 100.000 USD 150.000 USD 200.000 USD 250.000 USD


Join us in forming a holistic global network for Peace and Reconciliation!

129. YOUR ENGAGEMENT

Without you we are missing important elements of the solution for the problems our world is facing today. Your engagement and resources (economic, social, intellectual and spiritual) are crucial to solving the issues at hand.

pray intentionallyconnect potential

partnersshare your insight give financially

The Evangelical Alliance is a prayer movement. Your prayer is a fundamental service to the body of Christ.

The connections you have will enable us to reach further contexts where Peace and Reconciliation have not yet been integrated.

Your wisdom and knowledge

will support us in making the right decisions and solving problems we encounter.

Your financial and material resources will help us to carry

out the work.

Source: Wilson, Miles 2006: Funding the family business; 1 Cor 12:12-31; Romans 12:4-8; 2 Cor 9:6-10

Visit www.worldea.org/prn for more information on how to get involved.


[email protected]

www.worldea.org/prn

OUR CONTACT

Thank you for your interest! Please feel free to contact us if you would like to get involved or if you have further questions.

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• Pray• Subscribe to our newsletter

• Connect with• you personally

• your partners

• Share your insight

• Give:• Resources:

• Donation ___________ one time/ monthly/ annually

YOUR COMMITMENT

How would you like to commit to PRN?

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Email address

Street address, city, ZIP/postal code, country

Names of partners

Your areas of expertise; in what capacity would you like to be involved? (eg. Conference speaker, consultant, advisor)

Eg. Training tools, access to facilities, other material resources

Amount and currency


Did you catch the vision? Do you have any interest in more background information?

Further questions or interests

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YOUR QUESTIONS


WEA is a global ministry working with local churches to join in commonconcern to live and proclaim the Good News of Jesus in their communities.

What We are

The World Evangelical Alliance is a global association of national and regional Alliances, global networks, partners and associated ministries who work together to strengthen the evangelical Church around the world to advance the Good News of Jesus Christ and to seek holiness, justice and renewal at every level of society, so that God is glorified as the nations of the earth are transformed.

• Over two billion Christians in the world today are represented by three world church bodies. The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is one of those, serving and representing more than 600 million evangelicals.

• Launched in London in 1846 to unite evangelicals worldwide, the WEA continues to be a dynamic movement with 7 regional and 129 national Evangelical Alliances, and over 150 member organizations.

• WEA’s mission is to unite and strengthen local churches by connecting its members and others for common action, speaking as a global voice, and equipping members and leaders in the furtherance of the Gospel.

What We Do

• Represent with a Global VOICE

The WEA is uniquely positioned as a representative voice; advancing evangelical values, addressing concerns and advocating for the marginalized. WEA’s voice includes its engagement at the United Nations and behind-the-scenes diplomacy with governments, as well as its engagement with the media on global issues.

• EQUIP for Global Impact

Through its commissions and initiatives, the WEA serves to equip its members with publications, research, leadership training and resources on topics of theology, missiology, social justice and more. Many of these resources are available free at www.wearesources.org.

• CONNECT for Common Action

In accordance with Jesus’ prayer in John 17, unity among Christians and evangelism go hand-in-hand. As the world’s largest evangelical association, the WEA connects many church networks, ministries and organizations for greater strategic impact. WEA’s various projects foster unity, synergy and collaboration between its members and many others on topics of common concern. The WEA has, since its beginning in 1846, stressed the importance of united prayer.


16World Evangelical Alliance – General information

8 Regions: Africa,

Asia,

Caribbean,

Europe, Latin

America, North

Africa & Middle

East,

North America,

South Pacific

129Nations

600 millionEvangelicals

15 GLOBAL

PARTNERS WITH A NETWORK OF

HUNDRED ORGANISATIONS

MORE THAN 165 YEARS OF HISTORY. FOUNDED IN 1846

SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE

STATUS WITH UNITED

NATIONS ECOSOC

SINCE 1992

132ASSOCIATE

ORGANISATIONS, CHURCH

NETWORKS & DENOMONATIONS

15 WEA

Networks

Source: worldea.org

http://www.wearesources.org/

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