Diana Oestreich: Waging Peace

Send us Fan MailDIANA OESTREICH IS A SOLDIER TURNED PEACEMAKER AND AUTHOR OF WAGING PEACE.She heard God’s call to love her enemies in the most unlikely place: on the battlefield of Iraq. Diana is an activist, veteran, sexual assault nurse, and the Key Relationships officer at Preemptive Love, a global relief organization working to end war. Speaking across the country she empowers us to identify our own rural, urban, political or religious divides to cross our own “enemy lines” in order to remake the world and heal all that’s tearing us apart.  She’s appeared on multiple podcasts and blogs discussing Justice, faith, peacemaking, refugees, anti-racism, activism with kids and how her posture of love shapes  how she parents and shows up for her neighbors.Diana, her partner Jake and their two sons, Bridger and Zelalem live along the shores of Lake Superior on  Ojibwe land. They are an Ethiopian-American family woven together through adoption and a shared love for bad jokes and competitive card games.Interviewed by Lisa Jernigan, hosted by Julie Bean.dianaoestreich.comamplifypeace.com/podcast@amplifypeace