Douglas Hostetter, Interfaith Paths to Peace

Photo is from Doug Hostetter's Picture of Peace website.

INTERFAITH PATHS TO PEACE

Douglas Hostetter

United Nations NGO Representative

Pax Christi International

Peace Pastor

Evanston Mennonite Church

(former) Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Lecturer

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

(former) Adjunct Professor 

Goshen College, Goshen, IN

DougHostetter@gmail.com

Presented at 

First International Conference On Peace And Conflict Resolution

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
April 29-30, 2019

Abstract

The paper draws heavily on my personal experience doing alternative service with the Mennonite Central Committee in Vietnam during the American War in Vietnam (1966-1969) and directing the Bosnian Student Project during the War in Bosnia (1992–1995), when I was the International/Interfaith Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. 

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