Journeying Towards Nonviolence: My Life in Sudan - Hardcover

Ashworth, John: - John Ashworth, originally from England, moved to Africa as a young volunteer lay missionary teacher in 1976. He has worked with the church in Sudan and South Sudan since 1983, and has also lived in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. His career has spanned teaching, missionary priesthood, the humanitarian sector, and for the last twenty years or so, advocacy, peace and reconciliation. Much of his work has been ecumenical. In recent years he has been deeply involved in the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative. He has contributed many articles, chapters and papers on Sudan, South Sudan and peacebuilding to international periodicals, books and conferences. John holds an MA in Spirituality from Gonzaga University, Spokane, has been a Visiting Scholar at Notre Dame University, both in the USA, and is a Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute. He and his wife Jane now live in rural Kenya, where in his spare time he is building a large Africa-themed model railway layout. He has been involved in restoring, maintaining and operating full-size historic steam locomotives in UK, Kenya and South Africa for more than thirty years.