Building Sustainable Peace with Shalom Center's Father Patrick Devine

About this episode

The episode features Father Patrick Devine discussing the Shalom Center's efforts in building sustainable peace in Eastern Africa.

The Sandwich Generation Survival Guide is honored to participate in this year’s Podcasthon with this special episode featuring Father Patrick Devine, a world-renown peace and conflict expert and the Executive International Chairman and Founder of the Shalom Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation. Tune in as host Candace Dellacona speaks with Father Patrick about Shalom Center and their work across Eastern Africa to build sustainable peace through dialogue, mediation, grassroots peacebuilding, and development projects. He explains Shalom’s focus on positive peace rooted in justice, truth, mercy, and dignity, and describes programs addressing inter-ethnic conflict, religious ideological extremism, and violence against women and children. Shalom trains local leaders for 18–24 months, builds schools and other stabilizing institutions, has implemented 800+ education projects in 450+ institutions, and emphasizes community ownership. Shalom is headquartered in Kenya and has obtained certification of charitable status in the USA, UK, and Ireland, with 95 cents of every donated dollar going directly to projects. 00:00 Welcome and Podcasthon 00:38 Meet Father Patrick 02:28 Why…

People in this episode

Host: Candace Dellacona

Guest: Father Patrick Devine

Topics covered

• peacebuilding
• conflict resolution
• community development
• education
• inter-ethnic conflict
• violence against women
• grassroots initiatives

Keywords

• peace
• conflict resolution
• Shalom Center
• Father Patrick Devine
• education projects
• community ownership
• grassroots peacebuilding

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Shalom Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation

Places: Kenya, USA, UK, Ireland

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