Abstract
Carl Wilkens is a peace activist and an educator who headed up the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda (ADRA). He was the only American who chose to remain in Kigali, Rwanda during the genocide of 1994. His choice to remain in the country during that time of brutal atrocities resulted in the prevention of the murder of hundreds of children. Wilkens was featured in Frontline’s “Ghosts of Rwanda” and in “The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide,” an American Radio Works documentary broadcast on National Public Radio. He has received several humanitarian awards, including awards from Saint John’s School of Theology Seminary and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. He is a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor who devotes much of his time to promoting activism for peace. Wilkens and his wife, Teresa, founded World Outside My Shoes (see http://worldoutsidemyshoes.org), a nonprofit educational and professional organization committed to inspiring and equipping people to enter the world of “the other,” which Wilkens indicates may be under our own roof or on the other side of the globe. The Wilkenses also started Pedaling for Peace (pedaling2Peace.org) and travel around the United States sharing their stories of hope. Jerri Shepard, Associate Professor in the School of Education at Gonzaga University, spoke with Wilkens on June 8, 2010.
Highlights
SHEPARD: In your definition of other, you talk about the fact that “the other” is fluid, and you said something about the “transitional” nature of “the other.”
I trained as a high school shop teacher, auto mechanics and welding and all that stuff
I think that that’s probably one of the greatest gifts out of that horrible tragedy, forcing me to think in different dimensions
Summary
SHEPARD: In your definition of other, you talk about the fact that “the other” is fluid, and you said something about the “transitional” nature of “the other.”. If you are going to say hate was the big thing in the Rwanda genocide, you have a lot of explaining to do [in light of] all of the intermarriage.
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