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WATERUX) canomcur - Wednesday, lune 4, 20M . C! Using p a to transcend conflict . I O O I I O I o . . Waterloo Regron couple working with Mennomte Central Committee to improve lives m Nigeria Bvlmrs “(wa ing HIV and AIDS prevention and care. as Chronicle Staff Â¥ well as job training and education. ,__ ' fifi 7‘ “In regions and communities with deeply hen the first of two car bomb rooted social conflict, a lot of our develop- Wexplosions rocked the Nigerian merit work is stifled or undone when there is city of Jos late last month, Dave violence or tension that could result in vioe Klasseri was just leaving his office with lence,” said (Sober Hauman, who was in another staff member. Nigeria in April and early May but returned The first thing he noticed was the smoke homejust days before the market bombing. and the fire in the distance, followed by Part of that focus has been building ties pieces of fine debris tailing from the sky and with local Emergency Preparedness onto their shoulders Response Teams. which has helped create a Klasseri. who Works in Nigeria for Men» web of volunteers across Plateau State who rioriite (lentral (Iomrnittee (,anada along are trained to recognize and defuse tensions Willi his Wife, Mary luu, immediately got on “'lhey have one Christian (and) one Mus ~ the phone to contact other Mtit‘, staff to lim coordinator as stafiand dozens of volun ensure they were safe l‘heir office is only teers whose jobs are complex in a way and about 600 metres from the site ol the t-xplor also rather simple they're asked to be sum, a busy market square attentive to issues wrthm their own rommu Thirty minutes later the set ond bomb nities to have the potential to turn into detonated The explosions killed l I“ people flashpoints or triggers for broader violence." and wounded 64 others. many of them ’1' . - ‘. said(‘nber Baumari women and children -"' 'k.”*- W “ - n- V” .. in the past [2 years M(L(l has sent more “It was hard to knms exactly what to feel Mary Lou Klassen, "gm. of the Mennonite (mu Committee 9mm“ map with “"9"" than 15 Nigerians to the month-long African suit 1- l have not lived through this kind of Ahmed, found.” director of Homemakers, an wrung“, [ha( Ms wtth youth from drug Peacebuilding Institute in larnbia and the event lit-lore." said klassen in art entail to the “1(1an backgrounds ‘0 teach them “"3 for a my life (W. “A“...m", West Africa Peaceburlding lnstitu te in l‘lironir'lr- from Nigeria about the attark on (ihana, where they learn about topics rang May 20 lhe local couple has been working has been in the international spotlight after unrest or Violence in response to the bomb ing from conflict prevention and trauma tht'rt- \lllt’t’ t )ctober 2m: and had prt-yiously abdut ting nearly 300 local schoolgirls in ings may be proof their programs work. healing to restorative itistit e and advrx at y spent three years in Nigeria in the early April and tlairiiing responsibility for other “While it's anecdotal and we'd be very Last week. the Nigerian military l‘l‘ms bombings throuyiout the country quick to say we daim a very modest part in announced it had arrested the stispi-r it'd klrissi-ii is the Mt ( H'prt'Nl'lHtllHt' lll Amidst the chaos on May 20, Mtit, staff that, it's the kind of work we think grounds bomb expert of Hoko llaram. the group \rgi-rta responsible for all prograrrimirig the and tomrnunity partners noticed ()mstians all of our work in Nigeria," said Rick (obi-r believed to be responsible for the bombings lot a] nonprofit does iii the r t)llllll\ and Miisiinis working together to revue Vii Bauman, exerutive director of Mt! 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