Lois Gunden et le Secours mennonite aux enfants (France, 1941-1943)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-376
Author(s):  
Stéphane Zehr
Keyword(s):  
Central Committee ◽  
Mennonite Central Committee ◽  
Seconde Guerre Mondiale

Le Mennonite Central Committee a commémoré en 2020 les 100 ans de son existence. Peu connu en France, le principal organisme « de secours » mennonite a pourtant œuvré sur le territoire dès la fin de la Guerre d’Espagne, en ouvrant, notamment, des maisons de convalescence pour enfants pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En dirigeant la Villa Saint-Christophe, à Canet-en-Roussillon, de 1941 à 1943, une jeune volontaire mennonite a ainsi participé au sauvetage de plusieurs enfants Juifs. Lois Gunden, reconnue « Juste parmi les nations », incarne le rapport privilégié des activités de « care » avec le sauvetage des juifs persécutés, ainsi que l’évolution du statut des femmes dans les églises mennonites américaines par le biais de l’humanitaire.

scholarly journals Creating a Space for Peace-making: Burundi and Beyond

Refuge ◽  
1997 ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
Tim Wichert
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
International Volunteers ◽  
Mennonite Central Committee

Mennonites and Quakers have historically renounced the use of violence for resolving conflicts. From 1994 to 1997 the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) ran a program of civilian peacemaking in Burundi at the request of local Quakers. Their goals were modest, hoping that international volunteers could assist in reducing the level of violence and creating space for positive things to happen. Lessons learned were discussed at a seminar hosted by the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva in May 1997.

scholarly journals Fetishizing Dialogue and Commodifying Peacemaking

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-152
Author(s):  
Mahdi Tourage
Keyword(s):  
Central Committee ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Student Exchange ◽  
Mennonite Central Committee ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue ◽  
Research Institute

This paper assesses the ongoing dialogue and student exchangebetween the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and one ofthe most violent institutions in Iran, the Imam Khomeini Educationand Research Institute (IKERI). I will use this relationshipbetween theMCC and IKERI to examine the broader question ofinterreligious transnational dialogue and peacemaking.After a brief background of this somewhat “secretive” dialogue/student exchange, I will evaluate its effects. Of particular interestwill be the following questions: How do we responsibly shapeMuslim–non-Muslim dialogue for peace and understanding in aglobal context that is inevitably shaped by an imbalance of powerand representation? How are the acts of resistance undertaken bythe disenfranchised local/diasporic Iranian communities and thesustained systematic violence against them impacted by a peacefulfaith community such as the Mennonites? How does the absolutizationof “dialogue” coupled with self-proclaimed theologicalmandates effectively strip away the archives of violence from livingmemories and histories?What can examining the decade-longdialogue between the MCC and IKERI reveal about the mechanismsof perpetuation and dissimulation of imperial dominationand control? How can transnational interreligious interventions bethe nexus for infusing sensitivity and expecting accountability?I argue that a fetishization of dialogue and a commodification ofpeacemaking took place between the MCC and IKERI, resultingin the patronage of the sign systems of existing normative ideologiesof violence ...

“There’s some colonial in my postcolonial”: Community Development Workers’ Perspectives on Faith-based Service Learning in a Guatemalan Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Geraldine Balzer ◽  
Luke Heidebrecht
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Faith Tradition ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Global North ◽  
Development Workers ◽  
Mennonite Central Committee

Faith-based relief and development organization Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has been involved in the country of Guatemala since 1976 when they responded to relief needs in light of the devastating earthquake at the time. Since then MCC has invested in a number of communities throughout Guatemala in various capacities, one of which has been the development of service and learning opportunities aimed at exposing and connecting students/participants in the global north with the people and issues within the global south. As researchers of service learning, who are also committed to a faith tradition and have participated in or have been in relationship with MCC in some capacity, we are interested in evaluating how their faith tradition has helped to both construct their practice as well as critique it. One of the aims of our research is to collaborate with MCC practitioners in assessing and examining their current practice of service/learning in Guatemala in an effort to discover ways in which they are creating opportunities for positive societal change – both in the lives of the student/ participants and the communities in Guatemala, while critiquing the traditional colonial and neocolonial approaches to development.

scholarly journals A Reflexive View of Refugee Integration and Inclusion: A Case Study of the Mennonite Central Committee and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program

Refuge ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Luann Good Gingrich ◽  
Thea Enns
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Private Sponsorship ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Institutional Relations ◽  
Mennonite Central Committee

Through a qualitative case study with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) sponsorship groups and former refugee newcomers, we adopt a reflexive, relational, and systemic lens (Bourdieu) to analyze the institutional and interpersonal relationships in the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) Program, and more specifically, the ways in which MCC Ontario’s sponsorship program invigorates or frustrates dynamics of social inclusion. We situate the institutional relations of the PSR Program as nested social fields and sub-fields, revealing complementary and competing systems of capital that direct explicit and implicit visions for “success” in MCC sponsorships. A peculiar Mennonite/MCC social field and structure of capital generates institutional and social tensions, yet an ambivalent disposition or divided habitus presents possibilities for seeing, understanding, and challenging dynamics of social exclusion.

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