Friends Peace Teams

Starting in 2021, seventeen children and adults began reflecting on relationships among people who are different, especially across religions around Pati and Winong sub-district. The Mosque, written by German Kuznetzv-Valin from Russia (link), is a story of a young Russian soldier who wears a Christian cross rescuing the corpse of a Muslim that broke loose while fording an icy river, and then people of all religions joining in to construct a mosque in the village.

Alternatives to Violence Program (AVP) Nepal held its second virtual General Assembly, 10 January 2021, selecting a new board of nine members for the coming three years. The assembly began with stopping, a basic tool for practicing peace in our private and public life. Our board is more inclusive by gender, caste, and class. Friends Peace Teams in Asia West Pacific

Toward Right Relationship Project "When I began facilitating TRR workshops, I told participants: 'This workshop is important to me as an Indian because Indians often don’t know United States’ history any better than non-Indians. That is because history books do not tell the whole story, they tell a version of a story for whites. Indians are left out or often misrepresented. As a result, we don’t know our own stories. And non-Indians don’t know the truth. George Orwell said, ...The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. Our story had been suppressed, denied, but not obliterated. In order to reverse the centuries of damage, the Indians’ story, the real United States’ history, must be told. That is what this workshop does, it fills in our country’s history and begins to tell the true story. In this way, you will get to know my story and from there we can work on right relations. - Jerilyn DeCoteau (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) See more

Peacebuilding en las Américas Psychological and spiritual support is expanding through ever proliferating online AVP workshops. Participants include Hurricane survivors, women and adolescents living in situations of domestic violence, and others suffering from the stress of confinement, unemployment, and militarization of civil society. With new workshops in January, national coordinators and colleagues have been involved in facilitating 10 Basic online workshops and 3 Advan...ced, with 170 Spanish-speaking participants from 15 countries: El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Brasil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, USA, Spain and Germany. Participants who are AVP facilitators plan to replicate the workshops with others, including a new team of AVP virtual facilitators in Cali, Colombia. The enthusiasm is contagious with demand soaring. Monica Maher, PLA Initiative Coordinator See more

From Subhash's Public discourse on nonviolent economy Part 3 "If we look at the history of Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, we see that land reform sets a solid foundation towards economic reform. When you strengthen the micro economy, it becomes easier to improve the macro economy. But, in countries like India and Nepal, attention is given only to the macro economy while the micro economy is being destroyed. In this way we are building a sand palace which can collapse at any time. There are few things we can do to move towards nonviolent economy." Friends Peace Teams in Asia West Pacific

Taking into account the sources of violence that the Democratic Republic of Congo is going through, in particular the province of North Kivu, we have seen fit to select vulnerable women, female victims of sexual violence, young people, and other marginalized groups to bring them to get involved in the Congolese government program for the restoration of peace in the region. African Great Lakes Initiative-Friends Peace Teams