Peace

The citizens of the United States have a critical role to play in promoting world peace. This critical role must be manifested by people on the local level in cities and towns all over the country.

To this end, the Greensboro Peace Coalition works in concert with other state and national organizations that are also committed to peace, mutual respect and understanding around the world. The Coalition has played a major role in helping to organize an annual gathering at Fort Bragg, North Carolina (Fayetteville) on the anniversary of the U.S.-led bombing of Baghdad.  As well as participated in the annual July 4th parade and weekly peace vigils downtown Greensboro, helping to redefine what it means to be patriotic.

The challenge of learning to be a global citizen in our local community is becoming more and more apparent.  With global forces and policies so powerfully impacting not only our country, but also directly impacting our local economies and communities, there is a need for popular global citizenship education. Increasingly, the Greensboro Peace Coalition will seek creative ways to forge local peaceful alternatives to the current global economy that tends to breed more exploitation and domination, resulting in a culture of war, rather than community building.


For more information on the BCC's Peace Working Group, please contact Ed Whitfield.

Recent News & Views:

by Nancy McLaughlin

by Rev. Nelson Johnson

by Rev. Nelson Johnson and the Pulpit Forum of Greensboro and Vicinity

Photo Galleries:

photographed by Lewis Brandon
photos taken on Apr. 11, 2008 — Apr. 12, 2008

The Beloved Community Center staff, board, and some volunteers went to Dudley Inn in Kernersville for a weekend of retreat, deepening our relationships to one another and our commitment to the work. During the course of our day and a half retreat, over 35 board members, staff members, volunteers, and community partners joined our circle of discussion. We truly had an intergenerational gathering, from 16 year old teens to almost 80 year old seniors. Everybody's contribution was so meaningful and so important, including written reports, rich working group discussions, spiritual practices, sharing personal stories, poetry, music and priceless bonding and fellowship.

photographed by Joyce Johnson, Kyle Lambelet and Lewis Brandon
photos taken on Nov. 11, 2007 — Nov. 20, 2007

For ten days, November 11, 2007 through November 20, 2007, twenty-three individuals associated with the ground-breaking Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Process engaged in a “travel consultation” to South Africa.