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Lecture :
Prof. Dr. Christoph Behrens
DEPARTEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM OF
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF YOGYAKARTA
A. INTRODUCTION
Peace is a stress free state of security and calmness that comes when theres no
fighting or war, everything coexisting in perfect harmony and freedom1. And then, a
history is a chronicle of events, like the history of the United States mission to put a
man on the moon, or the world history class that you have to memorize all those dates
for. So, History of peace is a chronicle of peace events in one of country, group, ethnic
etc. And than history of peace divided become two. The first, natural peace is a peace
that has been created since the first or without war. And then second is peace after
war. The opposite of the previous, peace after war is a peace that is done through
agreements between the two countries, groups, and others who were war.
And in this paper, I would like to discuss about History of Peace In Taize. Because,
I think Taize is unique village. Taize is a small village in the Saone-et-Loire, in the
center Burgundy city, France is the village known as a place of spiritual tourism or
spiritual oasis for individual and global peace lovers community, togetherness life,
tolerance of faith, an inner peace, and religious pluralism2. In this place there are
many religions, mainly Protestant and Catholic. And even though they live in different
religions, they still live in peace and mutual respect for differences and diversity.
Taize is also known as one imbued with the spirit of community life simple,
compassion and joy. This community was originally a community of Christian monks
were established on the basis of love regardless of the background of its members.
This causes the waiters Taize monks are called bruder (brother). Inspiration came after
World War II, in which the impact of World War II it was a schism among the nations
of Europe, including its own divisions in Christianity (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox,
Anglican, and so on). It causes Brother Roger Louis Schutz was concerned and
empathy with it. So he was with the monks at the time, started running intensive
lifestyle as Saint Paul says in the letter to the Ephesians.
Finally divisions within Christianity can be overcome by Brother Ronger
Louis Schutz and his friars. No more division among religions. So that it causes inter-
religious harmony and peace in Taize.
1 http://www.vocabulary.com
Itulah salah satu impian Brother Roger yang pengikut Katolik. Dan tak lama
kemudian dia berhasil mendapatkan sebuah rumah tak berpenghuni dan sebidang
tanah kosong di desa Taize di kawasan Burgundy, salah satu daerah termiskin dan
terpuruk akibat perang di Prancis. Di sinilah Brother Roger yang pernah bertahun-