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     Theologians from the Historic Peace Churches (Mennonite, Society of Friends, and Church of the Brethren) are offering their peace theology ideas to the World Council of Churches (WCC), which is hoping for guidance from them for the "Decade to Overcome Violence," declared by the General Assembly of the WCC at its meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1998.
     Fernando Enns represents German, Dutch, and Congolese Mennonites on the WCC Central Committee. He says that whenever peace/violence questions turn up in WCC committees, members ask his advice. He is impressed with the fact that WCC, far from being monolithic, is a forum where Christians from many traditions meet and listen to each other. "Right now," reports Enns, "they are listening to us."
     One of the WCC staff members is Laura Short, an American Mennonite. Mennonite Central Committee and the German and Dutch Mennonites make it financially possible for WCC to employ her to do work related to the Decade to Overcome Violence.