My first trip to Indonesia was a brief one with Daniel Hunter in 2001. We helped church leaders who had faced violence from Muslim militias to explore transformative ways to deal with the inter-religious conflicts they face. In 2007 I returned to Indonesia, teaching conflict transformation in academic contexts. I also worked with YTB Indonesia, an ecumenical Christian relief agency to train their staff in CT, including helping regional staff to apply those principles and skills to regional inter-religious conflicts.
YTB Indonesia
http://www.ytbindonesia.org/content/index.php
For BBC’s country background information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1260544.stm
About Me
- Daniel Buttry
- I am the Global Consultant for Peace and Justice with International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches. That means that I work around the world, usually on short term peace projects. My area of specialty is conflict transformation. Simply put, conflict transformation means turning conflict from negative, destructive experiences into positive, constructive experiences… in which problems are solved, unjust relationships are structured in more just ways, violence is replaced by nonviolent means of dealing with disagreements, torn relationships are reconciled, decisions become more participatory and traumatized people are supported for healing. About 70% of my work involves training people in nonviolent conflict transformation. I occasionally am involved in mediation. I write a lot and have published a number of books on various peacemaking topics.