Since 1994, hundreds of participants in the annual Bearing Witness Retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland have discovered profound personal healing and transformation in service of creating a more just and peaceful world. For many years, we have had the vision of bringing this powerful model for individual healing and social transformation to other communities and places of tragedy and genocide.
In 2006 and 2007, we invited African peacemakers to attend the Auschwitz retreat. This has led to wonderful new friendships and partnership with Rwandan peace and reconciliation leaders, and to the development of a Bearing Witness Retreat addressing the tragic events and aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
We will begin with a closed staff training and small pilot retreat involving both international and Rwandan peacemakers in the spring of 2009. We will then offer the full Bearing Witness Retreat open to the public in the spring of 2010. Retreat dates, fees, logistics and other details will be forthcoming. If you would like to reserve a space now with a deposit for the 2010 retreat, please email
or call 303-862-9401.
Peacemaker Institute • 303-862-9401 •
The Peacemaker Institute is a division of Peacemaker Community USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of Colorado. The Peacemaker Institute is located in Boulder, Colorado.
