r lords who draw their support from their respective ethnic groups. As a result rural people have participated in looting and killing each other. Any peace process that does not take this into account is bound to be ineffective."
The Lokichogio Action Plan for peace was drawn up at the workshop. Copies (and the quarterly English-language SWVP newsletter "New Voice") is available from Sudanese Women's Voice for Peace (SWVP),c/o People for Peace in Africa, Waumini House, Westlands, Box 14877, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel. 254 2 568547; fax 254 2 441372.
Since autumn 1993, an estimated 100,000 people have been killed in tribal violence between Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi. Among those killed are Quakers, who number about 7,500 people, mostly Hutu, in Burundi. Quakers in Burundi are engaged in important peace work, despite the continuing atmosphere of fear and violence. They have built a peace center in Gitega and brought together Hutus and Tutsis to rebuild houses destroyed by the war. They have also organized relief supplies of food and housing materials, and established a peace committee in Kibimba that brings together Hutu and Tutsi leaders to prevent further violence. Their peace theatre, where actors reenact bloody incidences from the war, has educated many audiences about the need to actively work for peace. Their peace work has been hampered by the destruction of buildings and looting of equipment.
A Quaker hospital in Kibimba was saved from destruction, and its patients from death, because one nurse refused to flee. After all staff and patients able to walk had left, she remained and was able to persuade soldiers not to destroy the building. The nurse, from a neighboring African country, later decided to return home. She was stopped by soldiers at a road block and never seen again. Today, though there is no doctor, the hospital provides some medical care for villagers.
Contact: Quaker Peace & Service, Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ, UK. Fax +44 171 388 1977.
The Quaker Peace Centre Cape Town offers Peace Education training in schools for teachers and student. The Peace Centre is lobbying the government to include peace education curricula in all schools, and continues to run camps for young people from all of South Africa's communities.
The Peace Centre, with a staff of 29 people, has trained 34 Xhosa-speaking men and women who live on the Cape Flats as community mediators as part of its Reconciliation and Reconstruction team. The community mediators intervene in conflicts and help negotiate for improvements in housing, electricity and the needs of squatter camps, roads, transport, etc..
The Peace Centre's Economic Program offers advice to small businesses in the Karoo and Cape Flats area, while the Community Development Team has given advice and assistance on vegetable growing in 800 back yards and 80 plots in a community garden. The Team has organized sewing classes for both beginners and advanced students, and joined other like-minded people in planting hundreds of peace trees in South Africa's first Peace Park, in Khayelitsha. Contact: Quaker Peace Centre, 3 Rye Road, Mowbray 7700, Cape Town, South Africa. Tel. +27 (0)21 6857800; fax +27 (0)21 6868167.