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- Subject: INFO:Peace work in Belgrade
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- >/* Written 9:19 pm Dec 26, 1992 by jlynch@igc.apc.org in igc:yugo.antiwar */
- >/* ---------- "Volunteer to Belgrade" ---------- */
- > * Forwarded from the COBWEB (Church of the Brethren) network on
- > the ECUNET system.
- >
- >COB COMMUNICATIONS Dec. 22, 1992 at 16:46 Eastern (1906 characters)
- >
- >Brethren volunteer begins work in Belgrade, Serbia
- >
- >A Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) worker has begun service at a peace
- >center in Belgrade, Serbia.
- >
- > Patrick Morgan, of Akron, Ind., is working at the Center for Anti-war
- >Action. In his third year of BVS, Morgan entered Serbia in November last
- >year, after taking mediation training in Germany.
- >
- > The war between Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia, is not taking place in the
- >Belgrade area. Morgan's responsibility is to assist with the center's
- >communications to the outside world, especially with other peace
- >organizations. Part of the job consists of setting up electronic mail and a
- >computer network.
- >
- > ``People in the west need to be aware that the Serbians are human beings
- >and are not the devils they are made out to be,'' said Morgan. ``It is
- >difficult because no one knows what to do. Sanctions seem like the best
- >thing, but they are a form of violence and are tearing the country apart,''
- >he said.
- >
- > Morgan, a Catholic, is a 1990 graduate of Manchester College, North
- >Manchester, Ind., with a bachelors degree in communications. He worked for
- >two years at the Interfaith Peace Center in Rome, Italy, prior to his
- >assignment in Serbia.
- >
- > The length of his stay depended on the outcome of the presidential
- >elections, held December 20, and any additional sanctions placed on the
- >country.
- >
- > ``It is a time of anxiety and I'm getting mixed messages,'' said Morgan
- >prior to the elections. ``For a foreigner it is very difficult because a
- >lot of the propaganda from the president (Slobodan Milosevic) says that
- >`foreigners are a big influence on the problems.' ''
- >
- > The Center for Anti-war Action, a coalition of peace organizations and
- >anti-war groups, was formed in July 1991 with the intention of being a
- >peace presence in the former Yugoslavia. --MESSENGER February 1993
- >
- >--Communication Team, Church of the Brethren General Board, Elgin, IL, USA
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