In August 2025, MCC India and MCC Bangladesh made an explorative visit to MCC Cambodia’s Peaceful Education in Rural Primary Schools program in Prey Veng province. This learning tour was intended to promote the mutual exchange of knowledge and to share the results of MCC Cambodia’s efforts to localize the Peace Club curriculum to the…
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2025 Asia Peace Practitioners Research Conference
The day after returning from itineration in the US and Canada I hopped an early bus to Siem Reap to attend the 2025 Asian Peace Practitioners Research Conference (PPRC). The PPRC is designed for peace practitioners, advocates, researchers, and anyone committed to peace in Asia to come together and discuss important topics in peacebuilding in…
Two New Positions with MCC Cambodia & Myanmar
Three years go fast. We’re once again looking for people to join our team to support incredible partners who are doing inspiring work in Cambodia and Myanmar. This time around we have two open Partner Advisor positions. Both positions will accompany and strengthen the capacity of local MCC partners in the areas that where they’ve…
Peace Clubs and a Bombshell
Last month I traveled to Prey Veng province to sign Peace Club agreements with two new rural Primary Schools. I’ve written about the importance of doing this in person before – our work is about more than tasks, it’s about relationships. Also, when I go to meet the people participating in our projects directly, I…
What are we working on now?
As we come into 2025 I thought I’d write a quick overview of our main projects in Cambodia. There are also short term projects and collaborative work with peer organizations, but these are our main ongoing projects. In most countries around the world, Mennonite Central Committee works by accompanying local partners so I’ll outline our…
Article: The United Nations is a Mission Field
The Mennonite Central Committee Representative to the United Nations, Chris Rice, recently wrote an article for Christianity Today about his work titled “The United Nations is a Mission Field.” We’ve greatly appreciated working with Chris particularly during the coup in Myanmar. He was very active in connecting the voices of communities on the ground to…
Reflections on Political Violence
The 48 hours around my birthday were intense this year. In Myanmar, there were widespread non-violent demonstrations and general labor strikes protesting the February 2021 coup d’état. The military junta responded with brutal force. They turned guns and grenades against the peaceful protests. They forced Doctors and Teachers to go to work at gunpoint. Doctors…
CCA Conference on Myanmar
Last month, the Christian Conference of Asia held a four-day international conference on Myanmar. There were 57 participants representing various ecumenical groups, Christian organizations, NGOs, universities, government agencies, and so on. I represented Mennonite Central Committee at the conference and moderated a couple of sessions. The goal of the conference was to develop a communique…
Webinar: Climate and Peace, Stories from around the World
Mennonite Central Committee, the Church of the Brethren, and the Friends Committee on National Legislation will be hosting a webinar on climate and peace. This is an opportunity to hear directly from people working around the world on how climate change is driving conflict within local communities and what work is being done to address…
Myanmar is no longer the most violent place in the world
In June 2024 the former MCC Cambodia & Myanmar Peace Coordinator, Audrey Thill, published an article in Foreign Policy on How Myanmar’s Wood Funds Its Brutal Military. It’s a fantastic article pulling back the curtain on the illicit economy driving conflict and deforestation. The article is on Myanmar but also looks at similar issues in…