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Peace and conflict studies speech archive

Speeches from the 2006 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest
(in coordination with the Communication Department):

  • Anna Yoder, 1st place:  "The Butter Battle: Teaching Peace to Children in a Media-saturated World"
  • Anna Roeschley, 2nd place: "On Waiting in the Light: Peacemaking in Shadowy Landscapes"
  • Simeon Talley, 3rd place: "A Call to the Beloved Community: A Vision for Justice, Peace and Reconciliation in the 21st Century"
  • Joel Koerner, "Rethinking Our Definition of Pro-life"

Speeches from the 2007 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest:

  • Anna Roeschley, 1st place: "The Missing Peace to Faith-full Peacemaking: Intergrating the Feminine Divine"
  • Anna Yoder, 2nd place: "The Face of Peace: The Church's Response to the Violence in Colombia"
  • Joel Koerner, 3rd place: "Creating a Sense of Urgency: Challenging Institutional Racism in Mennonite Church USA and its Organizations"
  • Crystal Graber, "A Space Between: Being Like Christ in a World of Christian-Muslim-Western-Arab Cultures"
  • Meghan Stratford, "Fighting for the Peaceable Kingdom Without the Weapons of the World"

 


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