By Rachel Bergen A-esha Afdal Ampatuan spent her early childhood on the run with her family. She grew up in a Muslim camp called Abubakar in Southern Philippines. Although a stronghold for the extremist group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), for many years the camp enjoyed relative peace and independence from the Christian government….
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Interfaith partnerships in Indonesia
By Sara Klassen, edited by Rachel Bergen Before she went to School of Peace, Suwarti Ningsih says she was almost a fundamentalist in her identity as a Christian. “If Muslims came to our house we had to be careful. My mom taught me like that. I could not directly accept what they would talk about….