Justice, truth telling, forgiveness and reconciliation
We offer consulting, training and grant funding for faith-motivated, evidence-led peacebuilding.
Our vision:
To equip and support the Church to be a tangible voice for peace in every community.
So that when people think about the local church they envision a community of people committed to justice, truth telling, forgiveness and reconciliation.
Our Work
We work closely with our partners to determine how we can best support them. We review this regularly, iterating our partnership design to meet their changing needs in an adaptive way.
Consulting
We work alongside key staff in the church or faith organisation to identify goals and that activities are carried out to the agreed standard and to highlight potential training needs in conflict analysis, programme design and Monitoring and Evaluation to increase the sustainability of their local peacebuilding.
Training
We upskill churches and faith based organisations' staff and stakeholders through tailored training workshops.
Funding
We provide targeted funding that enables churches and faith organisations to meet programme improvement needs by building their delivery capacity.
Featured project: funded
Inter-religious Elder Mediation Training across Plateau and Adamawa States, Nigeria
Seek Peace coordinated and funded a training workshop for 70 elders and community decision makers connected to the KCT Centres in Conflict Transformation and Mediation Skills with Peace Cord International.
Staff & Consultants
John Hodge
Head of Programme & Consulting
BA Law, MA Peacebuilding & Reconciliation
Michaela (Kay) Hodge
Operations Director
Dip Community Development, MSc Sustainable Development
Board of UK Trustees & International Advisors
trustee
Retired Principal Scientific Advisor in
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning at Compassion International
Dr Alistair Sim
trustee
Nigel Thomas
Boniface Agbo
Senior partnership manager
M.A Organizational Leadership (In-view) M.Sc Accounting, B.Sc Accounting
Chairperson & trustee
ICAEW Member and retired Audit Partner at BDO LLP
Paul Clark
Advisor on reconciliation and the Christian faith
Registrar of Christian Faith Institute Nigeria
Rev. Gabriel Aiso
Featured project: consulted
Outcome data visualisation with CRUDAN
Seek Peace worked with the Impact & Evaluation team of CRUDAN to develop a dashboard to visualise their Church and Community Mobilisation Process (CCMP) data for their national project with Tearfund. This data visualisation was used by the CRUDAN team to improve their delivery of training and support to member churches.
Statement of Faith
We believe all are created in the image of God and tasked with bearing this image in Creation. We commit to honour the dignity of all people, their inherent value and their agency.
We believe God is a liberator of oppressed peoples and calls us to uphold justice for others. We commit to stand with the marginalised and work together to address systems and cultures of violence.
We believe in Jesus who, being the perfect image of God, moved into our neighbourhood. We commit to His Sermon on the Mount ethic and to practically living out His teachings.
We believe in the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus as a divine act of reconciliation and victory over evil (death). We commit to the sacred practice of reconciliation; aware of both its costs and the life that flows from it.
We believe in the presence of God in our lives through the Holy Spirit. As we live out our new lives we commit to being guided by the Spirit as individuals and as a community looking to better reflect His image.
We believe in the Church as a divinely instituted community of peoples coming together to live out this image. We acknowledge where this has not been done well in the past and we commit our gifts to steward it into the future as a catalyst for love, justice and peace.
We believe salvation means Creation healed in the ultimate coming together of heaven and earth. We commit to living in this tension where our feet are grounded in the reality of present sufferings, but our hearts are full of hope for renewal.
Featured project: Consulting
How can Churches in Kenya promote reconciliation in their communities?
Seek Peace facilitated a theory of change process with RNC in Kenya to co-design a three year project to upskill pastors and congregations in 15 churches and track their impact. Pastors are taught conflict transformation skills and encouraged to put in place systems for transparency and participatory decision making. Finally RNC support the Churches to listen to their communities, identify tensions and develop bridge building initiatives.