Reflections and Gleanings: A Learning Document of the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival

This learning document gathers together insights, observations and reflections from the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference & Festival held in June 2016. Content is drawn from notes taken by volunteer notetakers, the listening team and conversation café team members. The document quilts together ideas and motifs made visible through discussions, presentations, artistic works and events in an effort to support broader learning from the conference about Anabaptist/Mennonite peacebuilding. The document is structured around four questions:

• Who are Anabaptist/Mennonite peacebuilders?
• What do (or did) we do?
• With what issues do we wrestle?
• Where are we going?

For those interested in more detailed content from conference presentations, a special edition of The Conrad Grebel Review (Fall 2017 edition) features some of the papers presented in full as well as profiles of many of the peacebuilding initiatives presented at the conference and festival.