Apologies and forgiveness across cultures Offering genuine apologies and forgiveness can be hard.  It can be even harder when the people involved are from different cultures. Until ...

PeaceWise’s position on The Voice to Parliament Released Friday 29 September 2023 On Saturday 14 October Australia will be asked to make a decision in our first referendum this ...

Acceptance, societal change and Andrew Thorburn It’s hard to have missed the outcry and debate of the past couple of weeks surrounding Essendon football club asking their newly ...

the special case of abuse If you are currently dealing with the pain of abuse, such as sexual, physical, spiritual or emotional abuse, may we begin by saying that we reject absolutely any form of ...

Mal Sercombe is Senior Pastor of Darwin Baptist Church. Thanks to a scholarship provided by some generous PeaceWise supporters, he was recently able to attend Personal Peacemaking, ...

Gäwa Christian School’s amazing story of bringing peacemaking into an indigenous context and providing help to an isolated community Gäwa Christian School is part of a remote indigenous ...

Today, Sarah and Chris* are working on restoring their marriage. They are going on dates again, they are sharing their lives with each other and they are rediscovering the depth ...

My son Lachlan has a great little game where a palm-sized ball asks questions, trying to guess an item you have chosen – a computerised version of “animal, vegetable or mineral?”.  After ...

Sometimes someone puts something in a way that makes you stop and think. Sometimes it’s because a clever person makes something that is backed by centuries of widespread practice, rational belief ...

Transformed by conflict - Rise 2009 When was the last time you saw someone remarkably transformed, for the better, by conflict? For many of us, the very idea seems to border on the ...