Response Paper “Religious Resources for Peace” By Watini

Luc Reychler  gives a method of peace that it is written in International Journal od Peaces Studies, Volume 11, Number 1, Spring Summer/Summer 2006. Reycler claims that in peace building there challenges of peace research. 1.) Seeing the big picture. To sustain peace there are the essential requirements that some of it are: A.) System of comunication, consultation, and negotiation must be effective, B.) An integrative political-psychological climate, C.) A critical mass of peace building leadership and so forth.  To support five clusters, it need many aspect such as legal, educational, health, humanitarian aid, information and environmental system. To support them, there are the important roles is building block and there are fifth building block 1.) Building block focuces on the establishment  of an effective communication, consultation and negotiation system at different levels both conflicting parties and members. 2.) Building block is the presence of a critical mass of peace building leadership (Reychler and Stellamans, 2005). (pg. 6-8). 2.) Mastering sustainable peace building architecture. To build peace we have to get a better understanding of sustainable peace building architecture. 3.) Synergizing the know-how and learning. One of an improving learning of violence is providing space for trans-disciplinary research. 4.) Dealing with the reality of the peace building context. Thus, in peace building  there is not easy to create its because in peace research there are have to use huge worldview and have to know the field of violence and have collaborated with many sector and appropriate with context. On the other hand, we cannot to tend in some party so we have to see both of perpetrator and victims and consider different levels: the elite, middle and grassroots levels.

The other Title of passage is “The Religous Component of Mennonite Peacemaking and Its Global Implications” which the author is Marc Gopin that is chapters “fifteen”. Mennonite states that peace work is mission (236). Resolution conflict and an involvement of social justice is one of peacecmaking. To face violence, Minnonite use conflict resolution, a deeply activist and engaged method of affecting humans relations (238). Mennonite community use ethics that are encounter with the image of the other, the awareness of otherness, that generates ethical response of care, compassion or pity. The way of peacepeaking of Mennonite is how they create and sustain their own community (240). They have moral character that is meek and  lowly of heart (242). Minnonite use religion values in peacemaking. It  influences by biblical tradition and depend on historical experience and involving spiritual response to the world around them. If we use Reychler theory, Mennonite manage conflict with using a critical mass of peace buildning leadership that it come from their biblical tradition and historical tradition. Another example is local mechanism for managing conflict that they are joint together to face government that want to built new factory of pulp. There are invironmental injustice. The case is is North Sumatra in November 2002. Sarma, 32 was among 16 people jailed by a court for damaging the Porsea district head’s office during a rally opposing the plan to reopen pulp factory Toba Pulp Lestari (formerly PT Indorayon Inti Utama). Sarma is a church misnister. One day, Sarma saw that there are conversation both a member of his congregation. He tried to meet district head to convey that his community refused to the plan to reopen the pulp factory but it is no response from the district head party so protesters angry. Several of them threw rocks at the office and smashed two windows panes. Police dispersed the crowd and arrested Sharma (Muniggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, Januari, 10, 2004). In short, managing conflict is not easy. It is because there are many challenges there. In observation of peacemaking we have to spend much money and many time. Beside that, we have to many creativity in peace research beacuse of  in peace research we have to see both of perpetrator and victim and see many aspects such as politics, diplomacy, defense, economics, education, media, religion, health and so forth.