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J/IKf Peace Brigades volunteero to discuss Central America Barbara MacQuarrie knows all about the violence in El Salvador and Guatemala through her Peace Brigades volunteer work there the past five years. And the Belleville Collegiate In- stitute graduate will share her ex- periences with the public during a talk scheduled for Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Belleville Public Library. Her talk will focus on whether it's possible to have a "non-violent solu- tion" to the conflict in Central America. MacQuarrie was a Peace Brigade volunteer in El Salvador and Guatemala between 1985-89. She returned from El Salvador in June, where she had been living since 1987. She lived in the small village of Las Hojas, where, in 1984, a massacre of 74 men had taken place. "The native Indian people that I liv- ed amongst taught me a lot about sur- vival under very diff icul t cir- cumstances," MacQuarrie said. Her purpose in the village was to discourage any further massacre or disappearances by providing an in- ternational witness. A ! (~ The basis of all Peace Brigades work, she explained, is to promote a model of non-violent conflict resolu- tion. While in El Salvador, she also worked with CRIPDES, an organiza- tion assisting refugees and displaced people, trade unions, concerned chur- ches and the national university. MacQuarrie's work in Guatemala initially was with GAM, an associa- tion assisting families of people who have disappeared. (She began work- ing with the group shortly after two of t h e i r m e m b e r s h a d b e e n assasinated). • <