FROM THE DESIGNER

"As I've worked with John on the video and graphics, sometimes the stories leave you dumbfounded. People living very fragile lives, facing huge hurdles yet somehow finding the resources to face all this pain and take the hard steps back to peace.

There's the practical challenge of rebuilding a violently disturbed community - but to do that they're having to face the intensely personal things we all find within ourselves - hatred, revenge, prejudice.

Then, in the context of genocide, they're looking at issues of forgiveness... reconciliation... and the way many of them are dealing with that leaves me speechless.

Economic poverty but emotional richness - as an Australian, that makes me very curious"

Dave Fullerton

Choices on the way to peace - now available on DVD

John Steward lived in Rwanda during 1997-98. Now a resident of Melbourne, Australia, he returns to Rwanda every six months to assist Rwandan community workers in reflecting on progress in healing, peacebuilding and recovery programs.

"You cannot underestimate the incredible challenges of starting over in a country where everyone was affected and infrastructure almost destroyed.

"Yet we hear little about those Rwandans who are working for healing and reconciliation or the hundreds of stories of forgiveness between both Hutu and Tutsi."

Faced with depression, revenge, slow justice and a community in deep pain, John ignores the glib answers and takes a fresh, faith-based look at the big issues of forgiveness, repentance, restitution and reconciliation.

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