In May 2025, Pax Christi Aotearoa launched this three-part series exploring different perspectives on peace-making to celebrate Pax Christi International’s 80th anniversary.

🔹 Session 1 was an introduction to peace-making presented by Sr. Bridget Crisp RSM. The event focussed on how self-insight and relationship building are key to peace in a fragmented world.

🔹 Session 2, held on 17 June, featured David Tutty, a long-time Pax Christi member in New Zealand and now part of Pax Christi Australia. His talk, Struggling to be Peacemakers: Whitefella collective trauma and our need to face our histories of disconnection and unresolved pain, examined the ways colonisers’ understandings of peace-making are often disconnected from those they seek to engage—namely, indigenous and first peoples.

🔹 Session 3 (final session) on Indigenous Peace-Making will take place on 19 August 2025 and will feature Rangi Davis (Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Wai, Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu).  She is an experienced counsellor, advocate, and teacher of Māori spirituality, as well as a long-time member of Pax Christi Aotearoa. Indigenous Peace-making is relational, restorative and sacred.  Approaches to peacemaking are deeply rooted in whakapapa, wairuatanga and whanaungatanga. Rangi Davis’ presentation will highlight how trauma, when understood through the lens of decolonisation, can inspire transformative action for healing, balance and peace with Papatuanuku (Mother Earth), her diverse kin and all forms, woven with mauri, seen and unseen. Download the flyer here.

For those interested in attending this Zoom, the details are as follows:

Date and Time: Tuesday, 12th August 7 pm (NZST).

Contact paxchristiaotearoa@gmail.com to register.