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Peggy Gish

Peggy has worked in Iraq from 2002 -2018, and three terms in Palestine between 2003- 2007, with the Christian Peacemaker Teams (now Community Peacemaker Teams) (CPT). She has written two books based on her work in Iraq: Iraq: A Journey of Hope and Peace (2004), and Walking Through Fire: Iraqis’ Struggle for Justice and Reconciliation (2013). She is the grandmother of five, and lives on a farm near Athens, Ohio.

Struggles of Faith in the Journey of Peacemaking, Part 2

Peggy Gish
April 5, 2023
General, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Revival
Part II As we continued to work alongside many creative and courageous Iraqi human rights workers, we became more conscious about rooting out aspects of colonialist attitudes or patterns of how we worked.  W...

Struggles of Faith in the Journey of Peacemaking, Part 1

Peggy Gish
April 4, 2023
General, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics
Part I It was 5:35 in the morning, March 20, 2003—in Baghdad—when I woke to the sound of the first explosions. The dreaded war had begun. I had been in Iraq for 5 months, with members of Christian Peacema...

Jim Foley, ISIS, and What I Learned from Being Kidnapped

Peggy Gish
August 25, 2014
General, Global
75
We sat on mats in a traditional sitting room in a remote village of northwestern Iraq. One of our captors guarded the door with his assault rifle at the other end of the room.

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