Nonviolent Peace force
ANNUAL REPORT 2006
A DAY
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE
Dear Friends of Nonviolent Peaceforce,
June 30, 2007
Momentum is shifting. When we started organizing Nonviolent Peaceforce, we
had to spend a lot of time describing civilian unarmed peacekeeping and then
convincing people of the need and effectiveness.
During the past year we have not had to do much persuasion. There is a
growing recognition and acceptance worldwide of the value of this work among
policymakers, researchers, activists, diplomats and those impacted directly by
violent conflict.
Last May, International Governance Council member John Stewart and I met
with African Union officials in Addis Ababa. Many were eager to have NP send
exploratory missions, including those working in Darfur.
In the summer, I spoke to a gathering of nonviolent leaders from around the
world who had assembled at the Fletcher School near Boston. This was a
seasoned bunch who put their lives on the line. The only question they asked of
me was, “When can Nonviolent Peaceforce come to our country?”
Mainstream institutions including the World Bank, the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue have
recently issued reports recommending civilian unarmed protection. Citing the
emerging international norm of the Responsibility to Protect, a report compiled
by Lee Feinstein of the Council on Foreign Relations supports Kofi Annan’s
call for 2,500 civilians to supplement the UN’s peacekeeping operations.” The
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue concludes, “The international community
needs to take greater advantage of the protective power of field presence, and
deploy more such missions.”
During a year when headlines hemorrhaged brutality, Nonviolent Peaceforce
and the entire field of civilian protection have steadily expanded the global
consciousness that indeed, there are better and more effective ways to deal
with violent conflicts than sending in the army.
Wtih Hope and Resolve,
Mel Duncan
Executive Director
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE
Building a more peaceful world is not a
9-to-5 job. That’s why the work of Nonviolent Peaceforce goes
on around the clock and around the globe. Whether training
peacekeepers in the practices of nonviolent peacekeeping,
building cooperation among organizations and governments,
raising awareness or raising funds, the staff and volunteers of NP
are in constant progress toward a more humane and sustainable
future.
Walk with us
as we follow the sun across five
continents and fifteen countries through a day in the life of
Nonviolent Peaceforce.
Akihiko Kimijima on a conference call with
the International Governing Council
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Kyoto, Japan
(UTC = Coordinated Universal Time)
The time is 1:00 AM UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) as our global
day begins with a worldwide conference call of NP’s International
Governance Council (IGC). The topic is the evolving situation in
Uganda, where NP is considering a full deployment. Lawyer, scholar,
and peace activist Akihiko Kimijima is on the line in Kyoto, Japan.
NP is a truly international organization, with world regional offices
and representatives of the IGC on every inhabited continent.
Members of the IGC communicate through regional and international
conference calls and gather annually for a five-day meeting to set
priorities and re-energize the vision of Nonviolent Peaceforce.
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Chiang Mai,
Thailand
Training of Trainers lays foundation to
expand global capacity
As the IGC enters its second hour of discussions, another intensive day of NP training
has begun in Thailand. Twenty-six experienced peace trainers from nineteen countries
have assembled for NP’s first “Training of Trainers.” One of the key visions of NP is to
dramatically increase its capacity. The trainees will leave Thailand fully prepared to
themselves train field team members and additional trainers. It is this model that can
eventually make possible the mobilization of hundreds or even thousands of trained
peace workers to a conflict situation.
As a result of the Thailand
Training of Trainers in 2006,
NP stands ready to provide
its essential core training to
large numbers of field staff in
multiple languages.
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Mindanao advance team
lays groundwork for deployment
It is midmorning in the Philippines as advance
team members Atif Hameed of Pakistan and
Sreeram Chaulia of India convene a meeting
of local leaders on the island of Mindanao in
preparation for NP’s second full deployment.
Veterans of the Sri Lanka mission, Sreeram
and Atif bring valuable experience from our
first peacekeeping project.
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Mindanao,
Philippines
In the course of 2006, the advance team
would consult with NP’s local partner
organizations regarding options for placement of field teams, recruit five civilian
peacekeepers, and make final plans for a May
2007 deployment.
The need for third-party nonviolent intervention is
great as violence continues between government
forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF), a group seeking self-determination for
the island’s Muslim population. Fighting has
been sporadic but intense. At one point in
June, militiamen belonging to pro-government
paramilitary units attacked MILF positions in
response to an ambush on the local governor’s
convoy that killed seven of the governor’s
aides. Nearly 5,000 families were displaced in
the ensuing battle. By securing cooperation
agreements from all actors in the conflict, the
work of Nonviolent Peaceforce has created
a unique opportunity to reduce violence and
protect vulnerable populations.
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NP Sri Lanka helps an abducted child
return to his family
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Sri Lanka
The abduction and forced military training of children in Sri Lanka continued to rise
throughout 2006, with child abductions carried out by both the Tamil Tigers and the
Karuna faction. But this day, unlike too many others, is a happy one. Eleven days ago,
a family approached NPSL Batticaloa for help after a child was abducted and pressed
into service by the paramilitary Karuna faction. NP Sri Lanka worked with a civil society
group to quickly formulate a strategy to raise the national and international profile of the
abductee, including the involvement of Amnesty International. This morning, as a result
of this strategy, the abducted boy returns to the embrace of his family
The exception to this stance [of leaving when violence escalates] is the presence of a small
INGO – the Non Violence Peace Force [sic]. The policy of this small team of foreign and
local peace workers is to visibly stand by victims of violence, and needs commendation.
…All peace loving people must do all they can to appreciate and endorse such vulnerable
groups whose mandate is to stand with the vulnerable, and whose only weapon is their
moral strength to be able to do so. Contrary to what anti-peace forces imagine, the desire
and drive for peace grows when conflict increases.
— Sri Lanka Anglican Bishop Duleep de Chickera
photo: Bob Fitch
photo: Bob Fitch
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NP helps to restore feeling of
security after massacre
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Several days have passed since the village of Allaippiddi on Kayts Island off the Jaffna
peninsula was awakened by the sounds of gunfire. Eight villagers were murdered,
including a baby and a four-year-old child. Elsewhere on the island, two other attacks
the same night took five additional lives. The people of Allaippiddi fled to a nearby
church for protection in the wake of the killings, fearful of a recurrence. Some want to
leave the area because they feel unsafe in their homes. Yet they realize that as IDPs
(Internally Displaced People) they would likely suffer worse difficulties and dangers.
Others do not want to leave their village, which until now had been peaceful even during
the war.
At their request, NP field team members provide a presence, first at night, then around
the clock. Violent incidents
are much less likely while
international peacekeepers
are present. By providing an
unarmed nonpartisan presence,
Nonviolent Peaceforce is able
to restore a sense of security,
however fleeting, to the people
of this embattled community.
Sri Lanka
Field team member Fabijan Periskic
recovering from grenade attack
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It is the morning after an event that shook NP to its core. A grenade was hurled in
front of the NP Mutur office the previous afternoon. The explosion injured field team
member Fabijan Periskic of Serbia and two civilian passersby.
With the assistance of the United Nations, Fabijan was airlifted to
Colombo for surgery.
The attack, part of a coordinated act of violence against three
International non-governmental organization (INGO) offices
in Mutur, transmitted a major shock wave through the INGO
community in Sri Lanka. A series of strong condemnations followed
from international governments and the United Nations.
Happily, Fabijan would fully recover and return to his work.
Such encounters with violence only strengthen the resolve of
NP’s field teams to model nonviolent solutions. When a group of local young people
smashed the windows of another team’s vehicle and threatened those inside, NP team
members did not simply avoid those involved – instead, they sought out the leaders of
the group to try to understand what had happened. The youth leaders apologized for the
attack. The NP team invited the young people to attend peace gatherings held at the
local NP office. The youth leaders agreed to do so, a first step away from violence. It is
there, after all, that the need for nonviolent alternatives is most keenly felt.
Sri Lanka
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Delhi, India
Rajiv Vora teaching principles of
satyagraha
NP’s Asia Coordinator Rajiv Vora opens the
afternoon session of a centennial celebration of
Mahatma Gandhi and the first implementation
of his pioneering philosophy of satyagraha, a
celebration sponsored by member organization
Swaraj Peeth. Fifty-six Muslims and Hindus take
a pledge of nonviolence as a culmination of
the training led by Rajiv. They are committed to
intervene when incidents of communal violence
arise. The celebration comes at the conclusion of NP’s twelve-day Insight Trip for 2006,
celebrating the 100th anniversary of the day on which Gandhi turned the tide of rage
against the British in South Africa into a disciplined nonviolent campaign. Gandhi later
carried his satyagraha methods to India, where he successfully wrested his homeland
from British colonial rule using the same nonviolent methods. NP builds on Gandhi’s
vision of a Shanti Sena (Peace Army).
Preventing violence in Palestinian elections
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Palestine
It is 10:00 am in Palestine. Thirty-five Nonviolent Peaceforce peacekeepers from nine
countries serve as international monitors for the 2006 Palestinian elections. The NP
volunteers completed a two-day orientation led by the UN Development Program and additional training in violence prevention by the Jerusalem Office of the American Friends
Service Committee. The NP delegation is dispatched to eight areas in groups of three,
each accompanied by a Palestinian representative from NP Member Organization Grassroots International Protection for the Palestinian
People.
NP’s peacekeepers are there to prevent violence.
At the end of the day, the news is good: the elections for the most part have been fair and free of
violence.
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Core training of field team
members in Nairobi
At noon in Nairobi, Kenya, twelve women and eleven men from fifteen countries on four
continents finish a demanding morning of training in nonviolent peacekeeping. They
have gathered in Nairobi for a 23-day core training of
NP field team members. The training began with a fourday assessment, followed by three weeks of intensive
education in the principles of nonviolent civilian
peacekeeping. Led by Otieno Ombok, Otieno Oloo, and
Lyn Adamson, the training places a strong emphasis on
the development of team awareness, communication
and problem-solving skills, as well as deepening
understanding of nonviolence and practice of the skills
in the three core areas of presence, observation, and
accompaniment.
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Nairobi, Kenya
Otieno Ombok gathers information
for a project in northern Uganda
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As the afternoon begins in Eastern Africa, Otieno Ombok of NP member organization
Chemchemi ya Ukweli is in Uganda, gathering information for a proposed NP deployment in
the troubled northern region.
Uganda
The situation in northern Uganda remained tense at the end of 2006 as peace talks
between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the government stalled. The LRA suspended its
participation, accusing the government of killing three of its fighters as they traveled to an
assembly point in southern Sudan.
NP’s International Governance Council met by teleconference in December 2006 to discuss
the proposal to begin a project in Uganda. The decision was made to move forward on the
project once sufficient funds are identified to cover the full costs of the initial deployment of
three field team members. Based on their findings, Phase Two could involve the deployment
of at least nine internationals to maintain presence in camps for Internally Displaced
Persons, provide protection from forced recruitment of children into armed forces,
nonviolent conflict intervention training, and general monitoring of the security situation in
the region. Sri Lankan veteran Otieno Oloo is appointed to head the first phase.
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• Ellen Furnari • Shelagh Foreman and Edwin Furshpan • Mary and John Furth • Nory Fussell
Nancy Gabriel • Tony Gaenslen • David Gagne • Courtney Gaines • Tom Gale • Christine Gamm • Deborah Garcia • Jill Garcia • Robert and Patricia Garcia • Jorge Gardos • Carol Garman • Robin Garrett • Mariana
Garrettson • Patricia Garrity • Fleta and Marcel Garsaud • K M Gartin • Lydia Garvey • Michael and Carol Gass • Marjorie Gasser • Celestia Gaudreault • Monique Gautier • David and Carol Gavareski • Thomas Gedde •
Barbara Gee • Hugh Gelch • Mary and Everett Gendler • Bob George • S. Peter Gerard • Mary and John Gerry • Katy Ghiasi • Nancy and Ronald Gibbs • Valerie and Robert Gibbs • Joyce Gibson • J. Insui Giehl • Susan
and Robert Giesen • Alice Gilbert • Sterling Giles • Mandeep Gill • James and Mary Gillespie • M. Tracey Gillespie • Barbara Gilliand • Laurrien Gilman • Martin and Mildred Gilman • Virginia Gilmore • Franz Gimmler •
Mary Katherine Girard • Vela Giri • Robert Girling • Ruth Glass • Cherie Poe Glasse • Eve Marko and Bernie Glassman • William and Leslie Glassmire • Bill and Leslie Glassmire • Val Gleason • Julie Glenn • Elsa Glines
• M.A. Glover • Mary Glover • Dave and Marie Goblirsch • Judith and Laura Goe • Mary Rose and Frederick Goetz • Mark Schonbeck and Sumati Goldberg • Michael and Melissa Goldberg • Diane Goldenberg • Peter
Goldman • Robin Goldner • Joy Goldstein • Mary Ellen Gondeck • Susan Gonzalez • Joan May and Ward Goodenough • Gretchen Goodman • Eva and Jim Goodwin • Jonathan Ogle and Heather Gosse • Dorothy Gosting
• Donna Kurimay and Julie Gottesleben • Takana Gottschalk • Deborah and Robert Gough • Lucy and Richard Gould • James Gould • Brad Grabs • Maria Grandinette • Alice Graner • Pamela Granston • Gail, Mildred and
Melissa Grant • Susan Gray • Kathy Grayson • Tova Green • Sande Greene • Pat Greene • Karen Greer • Mona Greeting • Judy Gregg • Bruce and Nancy Gregoire and Anne Marie Beatty Gregoire • Reverand Richard
Gregory • Karen Larson and James Gresham • Lisa Griebel • Rick Grier-Reynolds • Ellen Griffith • Susan Grigg • Louise and Art Grim • Marjorie and Joseph Grinnell • Mary Griswold • Guirlette and Wlodzimierz Grodecki
• Trish and Chuck Grose • Claudia Miller and Martin Gross • Bill and Sherry Gross • Seymour Gross • Karin and Jeffrey Grosscup • Elizabeth Grube • Lynn Gruber • Chris Gruener • Susan Grumann • Grace Grzanek •
Ruth Gudinas • Barbara Gudmundson • Joan Guilfoyle • Gregory Gullickson • Lisa Gullo • Donna Gustafson • Devon Gutekunst • Betty Gutmann • Christine Gyovai
Joan Haan • Dennis and Thomsa Haas • Mary Haasl • Ellen Brooks and Dave Hackett • Susan Hackney • Marjorie Haddad • Bruce Hahne • Julie Forsythe and Gail Haines • Robert and Margaret Hake
Touring Germany to teach about the
global South
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Germany
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Belgium
Curious crowds are beginning to form around twenty-six columns that have appeared in
a public square in Göttingen, Germany. The columns are part of an exhibition tour titled
“Von Armut bis Zucker” (From Poverty to Sugar), in which NP Germany is a participant.
The tour, hosted by One World Network, will travel through 26 German cities – one for
each letter of the alphabet – with each stop
focused on a different aspect of life in the global
South, including Armut (poverty) in Augsburg and
Gewaltfreiheit (nonviolence) in Göttingen.
Alessandro Rossi promotes civilian
peacekeeping at the European
Parliament
At 2:00 PM in Belgium, NP European Coordinator Alessandro Rossi
highlights the concept of civilian peacekeeping during a European
Policy Centre conference on human security. As security issues remain
high on the European agenda, NP is working to keep the concept of
third-party nonviolent intervention
before the eyes of policymakers. NP
also participated in recent talks on
the UN’s Millennium Development
Goals, which include a significant
focus on security.
Photo: © Michel Piccaya
Jane and Ron Haldeman • Kenneth Hale • David Brandon and Lynne Hall • Thomas Hall • Rev. Rosalie Heffelfinger Hall • Manford Hall and Patrice Schmitz Hall • Adin and Elizabeth Hall • Donald and Marion Hall •
Sarah Halley • Marcia Halligan • Virginia Halloran • Helena Halperin • Holly Halse • Mary Ellen Halverson • Helen Hamada • Frances Hamburg • Nora Nell Hamburge • Linda Hamilton • Debbie Hamlett • Nancie Hamlett
• Rebekah Hamlett-Leisen • Mary Hammann • Yvonne and Joseph Hammerquist • Tim Hammond • Judith Hand • John Handeen • Elinor Hands • Mary and Francis Hanley • Sally Hanley • Anthony Hannagan • Theresa
Hannah • Gloria Hannas • Clare Hanrahan • Helen Hansen and Bob Collier, M.D. • Lloyd Hansen • Peter Hanson • Bella Hanson • M. Haidi Hanson • Georgette Sarkela and Bill Hardesty • Lynne Hardey • Helen Hardin
• Deni & Ted Harding • Brenda Hardt • Pat Hardy • Pauline Hare • Susan Hargis • Nancy Hargrave • Hope Harle-mould • Walter and Annie Harlos • Linda Harlow • Nancy Walters and Harvey Harman • Mardelle Harmuth
• Robin Harper • Martha Harper • David Harper • Mary and Nelson Harper • Betsy Harrell • Bart Main and Bridget Harrington • Donna Harrington • Kevin and Christine Harrington • Paul Harris • William and Barbara
Harris • Howard and Rosemary Harris • Richard Harruff • Sylvia Hart • Bruce Pennett and Lois Hartman • David and Jan Hartsough • Denise Hartsough • Lucy Hartwell • Kathy Morter and Glenn Harvey • Tim Haskamp
• Kathleen Haskins • Rosalind Hassinger • Joan Hastings • Dorothy Hatch • James and Brooke Haubner • Linda Haumann • Susan Hauser • Holly Haushalter • Sandy and Kirk Havel • Bruce and Ruth Hawkins • Peter
Chandler Hawthorne and Rebecca Killen Hawthorne • Rosemary Hayes • Lisa Haynes • Gerri and Bob Haynes • Gerald Haynes • Michael Hazard • Barbara Hazard • Kathy Hazen • Helen Hazlett • Mark and Mary
Heald • Joel Whiting and Companion of the Heart • Justine Heavilon, Ph. D. • Bob and Jean Heberle • Roger Heegaard • Sean Gosiewski and Rachel Hefte • Carol and Gary Hehemann • Richard Heilman, M.D. • Verlyn
Smith and Judith Helgen • Patricia Helin • Linda Helland • Ellie Heller • Desiree Heller • Terry Heller • Sebastian F. Helm • Ruth Callard and Nancy Helm • Marilaurice Hemlock • Kathleen Henderson • Linda Steinhagen
Hendlin • Dale and Forrest Hendricks • Barbara Forster and Larry Hendrickson • Charles Hendrix • Mary Hennessy • Evangeline Hermanson • Joan Reichert Herndon • Jan Herzog • James and Seiglinde Hess • Denis
Martynowych and Diane Hetrick • Kerry Heubeck • Charles and Elizabeth Heuser • Rickard Heuvel • Dorothy Heydinger • Connie and Larry Hickle • Elaine Hickman • Anthony Hicks • David and Lorraine Highsmith •
Richard and Joan Hilden • Kathryn and Ralph Hilgendorf • Curtis and Sally Hill • Elizabeth Hill • Argye Hillis • Analisa Hillman • Van Lawrence and Nell Hillsley • Nell Hillsley • Maren Hinderlie • George and Audrey Hinger
• Margaret Hinton • Elizabeth Hippert • Mares Hirchert • Bruce and Susan Hirsch • Adrienne Hirt • Jeanette Hirt • Peggy Hitchcock • Esther Ho • Thomas Hoban • Helen Hobart • Richard Hoch • Matt Hodson • Joyce
Theresa Hoelting • Peter and Liz Hoff • Cathy Hoffman • Barbara Hoffman • Judith and Alan Hoffman • Fr. Jim Hoffman OFM • Alice and Howard Hoffman • Lindy Hogan • Judy and David Hogness • Chris Hogness •
Clair and Virginia Hoifjeld • Susan Hoisington • Sara Holahan • Frank Holecek • Rodney Johnson and Kathleen Hollander • Irving Hollingshead • Mimi Hollister • Michael and Mary Holm • Howard and Cheron Holman
• Joanne Holman • Edward Holmberg • Jean Linne Holt and Dennis Holt • Alex Holzinger • Alan Hooper • Jenna Giandoni and Frontier Horizon • Michael Horowitz • Jennifer Horvay • Jacob Horwitz • Elizabeth Hostad
• Jim and Miriam Hougen • Beth Preheim and Emmaus House • George and Jean Houser • Willem Houwink • Frances Howard • Donna Howard • John and Leslie Howard • Margaret Howe • Jane Hoyt • Anne and
John Hoyt • Richard and Lisa Hubacek • Ellen Hubbe • Rachel Hudak • Francis and Evelyn Hudson • Imogene Huffine • Lois Huffman • Ted Huffman • Geoff Huggins • Donald Hulbert • Lucy Hulme • John Humphries
• Martha Hunkins • Vince & Mary Kay Hunt • Patricia Hunt • Ann W Hunt • Margaret Hunter • Samuel Nickels and Cynthia Hunter • Thelma Hunter • Carol Hunter • Theodore Paul Hunter • Cecil and Sally Hurd • Blaine
Hurie • Elisabeth Maria Hurley • Stacy Husebo • Barbara Hustad • Esther Huston • Laura Hutton • Barbara and Gregory Huwe • Jeanne and John Hynes
Linda Iacovini • Jean Ice • Tricia Idrobo • Steve Ififf • Eric Freeburg and Kris Igo • James Wilkinson III • Jane and Lalo Illades • Eileen Immerman • Jean Inglehart • Marcie Mc Intire • Bill and Margaret Irish • Don Irish
NP Europe regional meeting hears
requests for NP presence
The afternoon session is underway as representatives
of over 20 member organizations and several other
peace groups from across Europe gather in Barcelona
for the regional meeting of NP Europe. The atmosphere
is energetic and motivating as the discussion turns
to the creation of new task forces to increase public
awareness of NP and of nonviolent conflict intervention
as an alternative to violence.
By day’s end, the representatives will have heard
requests from human rights groups and other nongovernmental organizations for NP
presence and support in countries that face violence, including Moldova.
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Barcelona,
Spain
Tim Wallis, co-chair of NP’s International
Governance Council, at work on the
Peaceworkers Registry
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London,
England
One of the most urgent issues before Nonviolent Peaceforce is capacity – the building
of a reserve force of hundreds, even thousands of trained peaceworkers available for
deployment wherever nonviolent peacekeeping is needed. That vision is what motivates
Tim Wallis as he builds the Peaceworkers Register in his London office.
“After six years, the Peaceworkers Register finally came of age in 2006 thanks to NP,”
says Tim. “At the beginning of 2006 we had 667 members on the Register. By the
end of the year we had nearly 2,000 members from over 40 countries and potential
partnerships with at least three other NP member organizations who are developing the
Register in their own countries. We are well on the way to building up an international
pool of people with a range of skills and experience that can be used to support peace
efforts around the world, whether for NP, the UN, governments, or for NGOs working in
situations of violent conflict.”
Deane and Sandy Irving • John Irwin • Lynne Weiss and Bob Irwin • Cary & Walter Isard • Joseph Italiano • Jean Ito • Jean Jachman • Larry Jackson • Nancy Jackson • Richard Jacobi • Stephen and Marion Jacobsen •
Ralph Jacobson • Burt Jacobson • Paul Jaeger • Evelyn Jaffe • Carol Ann Jahnkow • Jinendra Jain and Katherine De Silva Jain • Karen Janikowski • Dick and Barbara Janisch • Peter Jarman • Virginia and John Jeavons
• Susu Jeffrey • William Jenkins • Lyle Jenks • Mary Jenney • Harry and Joyce Jensen • Dru and Laura Jensens • Steve Tuckner and Angela Jerome-Tuckner • James Joyce and Leigh Jewell • Elias Jeyarajah • Anne
Jimenez • Roger and Barbara Jobin • Bradley and Pamela Joern • Faye Johansen • Rachel Johansen • Thea Johansen • Leslie Johnson • Charles Johnson • Gayle Johnson • Ruth and Ralph Johnson • Julie Johnson
• Tim Ramer and Martha Johnson • Richard Johnson • Joan Johnson • AJ Johnson • David Johnson • Gabriel Johnson • Philip Johnson • Jean Elizabeth Johnson • Frances Johnson • Joy and Robert Johnson • Lynn
Johnson • Kermit Johnson • Katharine Johnson • William Johnson • Marjorie Johnson • M. Christine and Dennis Johnson • Chris Johnson • Margel and Douglas Johnson • Ellen Johnson-Fay • Carol and Merle JohnsonMiller • Hugh and Marilyn Jones • Elizabeth Jones • Lawrence and Nancy Jones • Michael and Diane Jones • Joan Jones • Donna Jones • Dorothea Joos • Rachel and Jack Jordan • Catherine Jordan • Russell and Mary
Jorgensen • Robert Jorgensen • Jean and David Jorlett • Melanie Joy • Terry Judd • Irene and Steve Juniper
Barbara Pratt and Alan Kahn • Karen and Michael Kahn • Donald and Phyllis Kahn • Robert Kalayjian • Sardha Kaluaratchi • Anne Kamrin • Joseph Kane • Arthur Kanegis • Timothy David and Edith Kang • Sudarshan
Kapoor, Ph.D. • Stephen Karakashian • Peter and Karen • James and Kathleen Karges • Ryan and Karen Karis • Julie Karra • Joseph Katan • Michael and Linda Kautzky • Alexandra Kedrock • Alexandra Kedrock •
Kimberly and Steve Keen • Margaret and Frank Keenan • Edward Kehoe • Jeff Keith • Vivienne and Raymond Kell • Virginia Keller • Susan Abderholden and Lee Keller • Jim Kellerman • Ellen Gavin and Bruce Kelley
• Alice Kelley • Colleen Kelly • Judith Kelly • Kieran Kemner • Sarah Kemnitz • Bobbi Kendig • Lisa and Jim Kennedy • Mary Kay Kennedy • Carole and Clarence Kent • Janet Keny • Claudia Kenyon • Debby Kern •
Douglas and Mary Ann Kerr • Frances Taylor and Walter Kersey • Marion and Morrison Kershner • David Sweet and Elaine Kihara • Jeffery and Kristine Kiko-Cozy • Laura Skye Kilaen • David Unowsky and Pearl Kilbride
• Pamela Kildahl • David Kimball • Rita Kimber • David Kimble • Mike and Patty King • Judy King • Gary King • James Flynn and Karen King • John Steiner and Margo King • Ken King • Judith Kingsbury • Howard Mc
Kinny • Claire Huang Kinsley • Sue Kingsley and Terry Kinzel • M. Adele DiMarco Kious • Janet and A. Gus Kious • Eugene Kirkham • Claudia Kirkpatrick • Janice Kirkwood • Esther Kisamore • Dale Kjonaas • Theodore
and Violet Klaseen • Mark and Cynthia Kleinle • Kirsten Klepfer • Ruth and Jeff Klepfer • Judy Klepfer • Jim Klobuchar • Alan Knaeble • Lucinda Jesson and Peter Knapp • Denise Knapp • Denise Knopp • Diane Knust
• Lillian Kocher • Victoria Pillard and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez • Paula Koepke • Mary Kohls • George and Cynthia Kokis • Jhan Thomas Kold • Barbara Koller • Sarah and Robert Kolodny • Patrick Koop • Barb and Lee
Kopp • Frances Korb • Roy Korn • Tim Kortenkamp • Janet Kortuem • Kathryn Kram • Loren Kramer • Joyce Kramer • Dave Kraskow • Michael Krass • Alfred Krass • Peter Krause • Marshall Krause • Merle and Phyllis
Krause • Ellen Abbott and Gerald Krause • Laurel Krouse • Bob and Sarah Marie Kruta • James and Mary Kubiak • Rhonda Kuehl • Daniel Leisen and Andrea Kuenning • Sara Kuether • Megan Kuhl • Karen Kukuk •
Julie Gottesleben and Donna Kurimay • Margaret Kush • Lesley and Thomas Kuykendall • Simki Kuznick
Barbara Du Lac • Clifton Brittain and Margaret Ladner • Leona and William LaFave • Corinn Lafave-Denay • Lakeside Agency Inc. • George Lakey • Ann Lakhdhir • Bob Lamb • Louis Lamb • Sharon Lamb • David Lambert
• Margaret Lambires • Warren and Marion Lang • Rob Lang • Anthony Langbehn • Kim Lapakko • Jeffrey Rholl and Alexandra Lape • John Lapham • Frances Moore Lappe • Margery Larrabee
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New York,
USA
David Grant at the United Nations
Strategic Relations Director David Grant checks his watch as he
walks to his second meeting of a long day at the United Nations
in New York. By day’s end he will have met with representatives
of UN agencies and missions, international nongovernmental
organizations, and potential funding partners to discuss the vision
and activities of NP.
The building and maintenance of strong cooperative relationships
with international organizations is a vital component of NP’s
ongoing success. In the four years since UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan assigned one of his chief officers to coordinate and
communicate with NP, and representatives of Nonviolent Peaceforce have met regularly
with officers and departments of the UN Secretariat, including Peacekeeping, Political
Affairs, and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
These contacts have already borne mutually useful outcomes. The vision of NP
captures imaginations, particularly of individuals within the UN who, for one reason or
another, cannot themselves directly enact the dictate of the UN Charter preamble “to
save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…”
In 2006, NP signed a joint framework agreement with the UN High Commission
on Refugees UNHCR, received funding from UNHCR and UNICEF and applied for
consultative status to the UN’s Economic and Social Council, which provides a way for
non-governmental organizations to directly access and address the world body.
Charles McLeod Larsen • Michael Larson • Susan and Kristan Larson • Ray and Connie Larson • Jeanne Larson and Lynn Larson • Julie Larson • Marge Lasky • Nikki LaSorella • Donald and Marion Lathrop •
Brian Lau • Judith and Robert Lauer • Mary Jane LaVigne • David and Diane LaVoy • Lee Lawrence • Pamela Layton • Karen Monroe, LCSW • Arlene Leaf • Joan Leahigh • Mary Elizabeth Leary • Melvin Leasure
• Andrea LeBlanc • Glorianne Leck • Carol LeClair • Erik Nelson and Lisa Ledwidge • Thomas and Eileen Lee • James and Ruth Lee • Susan Lee • Vicki Leeds • Jeanette Leehr • Philip Lefcourt • Dawn Lehman •
Barbara Leighton • Melinda Leiser • David Lenderts • Duane Lengsfeld • Evelyn Lennon • Abel and Lydia Leon • Juan Leon • Margaret Leonard • Teresa and Robert Leonard • David Leonard • Sue Leonard • Betsy
Leondar-Wright • Ann Leonesio • Judy and Jack Leshefka • Katharine Lester • Eva Leuthold • Virginia Levasseur • Robert Levering • Jerry Levine • Lawrence and Cheryl Levy • Rachel Levy-Bencheton • Frank Lewin
• Eliza Lewis • Lee Lewis • Deet Lewis • Harriet Lewis • Barbara Lewis • Ann Lewis • David Lewit • June Licence • William and Louise Lidicker • Yehudit Lieberman • Fran Lightsom • Karen Lilley • Denise Lindblom •
Tom and Joyce Lindquist • David Zimmerman and John Lineberger • Bob and Toni Lippert • Krista Kurth and Evan Lippincott • Judith and Henry Lippold • Arthur and Susan Lloyd • Patrick Lochwood • Maryel Locke
• Aase Loescher • Lisa Logan • Thomas Logeland • Cindy Lohr • Kristin Loken • Paolo Lommi • Allene Long • Gordon and Marilyn Loos • Frank Ostrowski and Sarah Lopez • Janet Lord • Nancy Lorence • Margaret
Lorenz • Richard Lorenz • Julian Loscalzo • Catherine Lound • Joanne Lound • Rebecca Lourey • Nancy Lovejoy • Warren Lowe • Virginia Schaaf and Daniel Lowenstein • Kathryn Lowery • Norma Lowrie • Kay
Lucas • Catherine Luck • R.L. and M.J. Luedtke • Robert and Elizabeth Lukens • Kristen and Kristofer Lund • Kim Lund • Karen Lundgren • Richard Lunt • Steve Lustgarden • Daniel Lustick • Norton Lyman • Jim
Lynch • Jeanne Lynch • Cara Lynch • Mary Lynn
Chuck and Beth MacDonald • Catherine MacDonald • Joan MacIntyre • Bruce and Gretchen Maclachlan • Elissa Ellis Macleod • Marjorie Woods Madden • Ralph Madsen • Rose and Ralph Madsen • Bernice Maertz
• Alice Maes • Raymond and Gloria Magee • Linda Maggs • Karen Magoon • John Magruder • Katherine Mahle • Fredrick and Patrick Malcolm • John and Jan Malone • Sue and J.J. Malone • Joelyn and Michael
Malone • Bill Manahan • Kathryn and Roberto Manalo • Nancy Mann • Polly Mann • Robert Manning • Thomas and Janna Marchione • Lorna Maren • Joe Marinello • Genjo Marinello • Florence Markey • Lois
Markham • Megan Dehn and Paul Marking • Ina Marks • Walter and Suzanne Marks • Nan Corliss and Marti Markus • Doris and Erwin Marquit • Ed Marroni • Lee Marrs • David Blair and Linda Marsella • Barbara
Marshall • Dolly Marshall • Jean Martensen • Nancy Martin • Pat Martin • Chuck Steffey and Suzannah Martin • Paul and Anne Martin • Mary and Bill Martin • Anna Martin • Rachel Martinez • Ann Martinmak • Sue
Ann Martinson • Stephen Martorano • John and Connie Marty • Elsa Marty • Jean Maryborn • Karen Marysdaughter • Joann and Christopher Mason • Anne Mason • Barbara Mason • Samuel Mason • Moses and
Sadie Mast • Ken and Carol Masters • Laura Matanah • Vinstrot Linstrot and Jami Matanky • William and Judy Matchett • Stephen Matchett • Jean A. Mathews • Virgil Mathiowetz • Andrew and Ellen Matragrano
• David and Sandra Matteson • Bill and June Mattke • Carol Matusak • Terry Lee Maul • John and Maryanne Mauriel • Sherri Maurin • JoAnn Maus • Alice Maxfield • Robert May • Dr. Catherine Mayer • Paty and
Joe Mayer • Elaine and Joe Mayer • George Mayer • Jackson Mayes • Carole Maynard • Dominique Mazeaud • Priscilla McAfee • Gary Stoos and Pamela McAlister • Mary Jo Mcarthur • Thomas McAuliffe • Laurie
McCann • Colleen McCarthy • Clara Ueland and Walter McCarthy • Kathryn Barnhart and John McCarthy • Walter McCarthy • Joseph and Lynn McCarthy • Don McClain • Helvi Mcclellan • Gin McCollum • Steven
McComas • Laurel McCormick • Carolyn McCoy • Joan McCoy • Stanley and Connie McCracken • Glenn McCrea • Barbara McDermid • Colleen OMalley and Jane McDonald • Erin McDonald • Eileen McDonnell •
Paula McDonough • Lois Ann Swenson and Sheryl McDougall • Jeanne McDowell • James McEachran • Jean McElhaney • Elizabeth McElhill • Sarah McElroy • Nancy and Bob McFarland
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Ela Gandhi unveiling new
Peace Bond designs
At midday in Washington, DC,
preparations are underway for
the unveiling of the new designs
for Nonviolent Peaceforce’s
Series A 2006 Peace Bonds. An
international panel of judges has
selected six winning designs, one for
each of the six bond denominations,
from over 300 entries from around
the world.
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Washington, DC
USA
At the National Press Club event,
the competition winners are
announced and the beautiful new
designs revealed by NP supporter Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.
Revenue from these bonds provides support to our peacekeeping teams.
Lyn Adamson coordinating training
and recruitment
Another day of telephone and Skype calls is in progress for NP
Capacity Building Director Lyn Adamson in Toronto. In the course
of the afternoon she will field calls from San Francisco, Bolivia,
Spain, and Sri Lanka as plans develop for the next NP training
event in Quito, Ecuador. Lyn also screens potential recruits to find
the select few with the skills and commitment to undertake the
daunting challenges of fieldwork. “It’s a wonderful day for me when
someone I have trained is deployed to the field,” she says. “To
see the growing numbers of those trained and in the field is very
rewarding.”
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Toronto,
Canada
Richard and Joyce McFarland • Dr. Tom and Joy McGinnis • Lisa Kious McGovern • Maryjean McGrath • Peter McGuinness • Tom and Susan McGuire • Mary Jo McGuire • Marcie McIntire • Lucy McIver • Robert McKee
• Megan Mckenna • Betty McKenzie • Stephen McKeown • Ethna McKiernan • Howard and Flora McKinney • Tiia Kari and George McLaughlin • Malcom and Wendy McLean • Louise Mclean • Dan and Tomi McLellan
• Randall and Brenda McLeod • Ed McManus • Anne McManus • Alice McMechen • Kristi McNamara • Maxine McNamara • David and Julie McNaughton • Tim McNeil • Daniel McNeil • Patrick and Mary Anne McNeil
• Douglas McNeill • Amanda McNosky • Jack and Rose Marie Mcquaid • Fanchette and Allen Stewart MD • Donald S. Gann, MD • Rosemary Meade • Deirdre Meade • Christopher Meadows • Ed Easter and Elizabeth
Meadows • Marie and Joseph Medvec • Julie and Ronald Meixsell • Nick and Mary Helene Mele • Nicco Mele • Margaret and Martin Melkonian • Karl Meller • John and Sylvia Melrose • Charlotte Melville • James and
Joann Mentele • Kathryn Iverson and Michael Menzel • Susan and Sam Merrill • Elizabeth Sherrill Merritt • Mary Mersereau-Kempf • David Mesner • Jason Storrs and Kera Messinger • Sylvia Metzler • Rob Meurer •
Jeanne and Lyle Meyer • Maria Teresa Meyer • Carolyn, Joseph and Erick Meyer • P.K. and M.K. Michaels • Mary Miche • Betty and Peter Michelozzi • Cindy Mickey • Jack and Anne Middleton • Gaia Mika • Elaine Voboril
and Maren Milbert • Arthur Milholland • Matthew Millar • Carol Johnson Miller • Carol and Larry Miller • Franklin Miller Jr. • Sam and Betty Miller • Barbara Miller • Jean Miller • Diane Miller • Phyllis Miller • Martha Miller •
Roy Miller • Judith Miller • George Millikan • Jane E Milliken • Gerrish Milliken • Judith Milner • Joni Minault • Patrick and Gertrude Mingo • Garland Minor • Karin Minshull • Kathleen Mirante • Gary and Anna Miron • George
and Helene Mische • Nancy Mischel • Barbara Mishler • Rosemary Mitlyng • Margaret Mittelstadt • Karen Miyares • Ron Mock • Genevieve Moe • Reba Mohan • James Mohr • Anne Moldafsky • Suzanne Monahan • Jean
Mont-Eton • David Moody • Joanne Moore • James Moore • Elaine Conrad and Anne Moore • Rhoda Moore • Patricia Moore • Anne and Tom Moore • Pamela Moore • Celina Moore • Melvin and Ellen Moore • Michael
Moran • Carol Moreno • Janet Morgan • Luis Morones • Richard and Linda Morris • David and Sue Morris • Joanne Morrissey • Elisabeth and Steven Morr-Wineman • Geoff Sutton and JoAnn Morse • Dorothea and Alfred
Morse • Claire and Lawrence Morse • Eleanor Morton • Joe Morton • Margaret Morton • Daniel Moses • Carol and Nelson Mosher • Carol Moss • John Moss • Barbara Moulton • Paula Moyer • Meghan Moyer • Ellen
Mriga • Joseph Muldoon • John and Sharon Mullally • Tony Mullaney • Susan and Michael Mullen • Marcia Mullens • Karen Muller • Joseph Mullery • Judith Mullins • P.D. Jackson and Margaret Mullins • Kate Mulvaney
• Donna Mumma • John Fournelle and Judith Munaker • Fredi and George Munger • Mary Louise Munts • Mary Louise Munts • Roger Meyer and Dana Murdoch • Kathleen Murphy • Patricia Ann Murphy • Nora Murphy
• Donna and Tom Murphy • Barbara and Edward Murphy • Michael Murphy • Joan Murray • Vicki and Darrell Musech • Dick Musser • Marvin and Lois Muyres • Roseann Myers • Linda Myers • Robert Myers
Naomi Nachun • Buddy Nadler • Michael Nagler • Victoria Danzig and Alan Nahum • Mira Nakashima • Linda Napier • Clark Nartwick • Ardella Nathanael • Clark Natwick • M. Dianne Nauer • Bert Nayfack • Heather
Neher • Jack and Kathleen Neis • Dave Nelson • Gloria Nelson • Joy and Randy Nelson • Judy Nelson • Mabel Nelson • Robert Nelson • Marge Nelson • Sara and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer • Danna Neste • Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Neuman • Lita Newdick • Ken and Lee Ann Newman • Richard and Angela Nez • Jean Nicholas • Toby and Ann Nichols • Jean Nicholson • Samuel Nicholson • Paul and Roberta Nicholson • Amy Kietzman and
David Nicklin • Katherine Nicklin • John and Karen Niedenfuer • Marcelline Niemann • Barry Nienstadt • Lauren N. Nile • Martin Nitzberg • Ronald Noah • Nancy Noel • Joann Thomas and Douglas Nopar • Richard North
• Richard North • H. Steinlauf Norwitt • James Novak • Barbara Novelli • Richard Whitham and Carlie Numi • Molly Nutting
Ken Oberlander • William OBrien • Linda OBrien • Theresa OBrien • James and Sharon OBrien • Susie OBryan • Leo Klohr and Judy Occhetti-Klohr • Tom OConnell • Meaveen OConnor • Mary Fran OConnor
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New Jersey,
USA
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Pittsburgh,
USA
Season of Peace Tour tells NP’s Sri Lanka
story across the United States
Photographer Bob Fitch and Field Team Member Linda Sartor stand before another
room of NP supporters gathered to hear and see the story of NP’s work in Sri Lanka. By
the time it concludes on the West Coast, the Season of Peace Tour will have brought the
story to 1600 supporters in seven U.S. states.
Bob Fitch, a renowned photojournalist, spent
a month in Sri Lanka capturing the work of NP
on film. Linda Sartor was part of the original
team of trained civilian peacekeepers who
went to Sri Lanka to help NP launch its first
project. Fitch’s evocative photographs and
Linda’s first person narrative help increase
audience understanding and support of the
vision of Nonviolent Peaceforce.
Advocate Team Members hear firsthand
account of situation in Sri Lanka
Several NP Advocate Team Members (ATMs) listen intently to Sreeram Chaulia, one of
the original thirteen Field Team Members in Sri Lanka, as he describes the evolving
situation in that country. The ATMs are gathered in the Northwest Pennsylvania hills
near Pittsburgh for a weekend of nonviolence and fundraising education, planning,
sharing, and teambuilding.
ATM members raise a substantial portion of the NP budget by making significant
financial gifts to Nonviolent Peaceforce and inviting other members of their community
to support NP generously.
“The retreats are extremely helpful to us as Advocates because we practice techniques
we can use in talking about NP in our communities, inspire each other, and get good
ideas from each other about other steps we can take for NP,” says Helena Halperin, ATM
Steering Committee Chair.
Advocate Team members have special educational opportunities including the
opportunity to travel internationally to feel the power of NP’s work firsthand.
Joan O’Connor • Paris Dunning and Anna Odegaard • Francis and Lenora O’Donnell • Jane Odt • William and Judith OFallon • Virginia and Thomas O’Flaherty • Kelly Ogden-Schuette • Ruth O’Hara • Constance O’Hear
• David Okar • Herta S. Okonkwo • Larry Olds • Kathleen Olsen • Mary Ellen Olson • James and Lynn Olson • Debra Olson • Elaine Olson • Lisbeth Olton • Walter O’Neil • Marilyn O’Neil-Eash • Carol K. ONeill • Elizabeth
Ontko • Pennie Opal • Frieda Gardner and Susan Oppenheim • Gwynne Ormsby • Sharon and Vic Ormsby • Gabe Ormsby • Erika Shatz and Roxanne Ornelas • Lilla and Jerry Orr • Charlotte Osborn • Suzanne Osborne
• Francis OShea • Warren and Marsha Oskey • Barbara OSteen • David Osterhout • Don and Florence Ostrom • Julie Oswald • Mark Oswood • Connie Otis • Charles Skinner and Christine Otis-Skinner • Christopher
Ott • Dennis and Joan Ott • Bettie Ott • Eugene and Mary Lou Mulcahey Ott • Gretchen Van Werden Otto • Daniel Spelce and Mitakuye Oyasin
Connie Packard • Llyod and Bette Packer • John Dunker and Amy Paige • Lincoln Pain • Ruth Paine • Joseph and Mary Palen • Meg Palley • Hal and Antonia Palmer • Jennifer and Mitchell Palmer • Clarkson and
Andrea Palmer • Rosemary Grebin Palms • Elvira Paoletti • Joel and Mary Papa • Richard Paper • Judith Paradis • Leticia Paray • Anne Elstrom Park • Raymond and Deborah Park • Pat Parkman • Marlene Parks •
Richard Parnell •Mark Parnes • Laurel Parrott • Bob Passmore • John Klein and Maria Pastoor • Michael True and Mary Pat • Josephine Paterek • Mary and Mickey Patterson • Alexandrina Patty • Rosalie Paul • Robert
and Elizabeth Paul • Rodney and Sarah Paul • Sue Nash and A.T. Paulek • Joan Paulin • Janet Paulsen • Robert Paulson • Douglas Paxton • Jewel Payne • Whit Peace • Suzanne Pearce • Marni and Kevin Pearce •
Richard Pearce • Krista Pearson • Betty and Dean Pearson • Joan Pearson • Adam Pearson • Mardi and John Pearson • Richard and Nancy Ann Ashley Peck • Linda Peck • Jerry and Drusilla Pedersen • Ann Gilbert
and Daniel Pederson • Jonnie Pekelny • Paul Pelkham • William Pelsue • Stephen Henke and Nancy Peltola • Bob and Laura Pepper • Marilyn Peppin • Angelo and Mary Percich • Jerome Perkins • Jennifer C Perrot
• Charles Pillsbury and Reverend Allie Perry • Carol Perry • Walter Persans • Lorin and Lacksana Peters • Ruth and John Peters • Elise Peters • Anne Henry and Jerod Peterson • Elizabeth Peterson • Nancy Peterson
• Luther and Ruth Peterson • Ron Peterson • Nancy Peterson • Joan Peterson • Jean Marie Peterson • Marie-Jeanne Petillon • Katrina Pflaumer • Peter Bergel and Alice Phalan • Alan and Joyce Phillips • Margot
Phillips • Fhyre Phoenix • Laura Phoenix • James and Joy Phoenix • David Pichner • Arden Pierce • Gail Piestrup • John Pikala • Marc Pilison • Dan Carlson and Barbara Pilling • Anne Pincus • Nancy and Jerome Pine
• Franchon Pirkl • Myfanwy Plank • David Platter • Patrick Plummer • Tim Pluta • Emma and Tim Pluta • Ruth and Michael Podolin • Gaius Poehler • Judith Pogue • Vicky Poier • Joe Polansky • Shirley Poliquin • Sally
Polk • Harry and Doris Polone • Mary Ponder • Alfred Poor • Karen Pope • Betsy Popp • Aimee Porter • Thomas and Izola Porter • Patricia Porter • Lucinda Post • Polly Post • Elizabeth and Robert Post • Barbara Bencini
and Bill Powell • Marcia and Conor Power • David Powsner • June Prange • Gayle Prather • Maryanna Pratt, S.S.J. • Jim Prentice • Caryl Price • Bill Price • Paul Priest • Mark Pringle • Jeanne Prochnow • Margaret
and David Prosser • Helen Prosser • Nathaniel Prugh • Joseph and Doris Pummill • Tony Purvey • Charles and Linda Putney • Chad and Lucy Quaintance • Helena Cobban and Dr. William Quandt • Quentin Quereau
• Carol Quest • Elizabeth and Paul Quie
Kenneth and Karen Rader • B.W. Radtke • Joyce Radtke • Agnes Raeven • Helen Raisz • Nayana Ramakrishnan • Agnes Ramer • Valerie Rampone • Benton Randolph • Thomas and Catherine De Ranitz • Michele
Rapp • Alfred Rashid • Lylee Rauch-Kacenski • Daniel Ravens • Joan Rawles-Davis • Ken and Anne Rawson • Mary Ann and Stephen Ready • Charles and Le Rona Redepenning • James Hart and Maureen Reed •
Bob and Naomi Reed • J. Brian Reeves • John and JoAnn Reeves • Jane and Jack Regan • Richard Regen • Michael Gardos Reid • Benedict Reid • Ronald Reimer Reimer Family Foundation
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Exploratory team provides
impromptu accompaniment in
Colombian combat zone
The visit to Colombia was supposed to be just a fact-finding mission. Álvaro RamirezDurini, NP’s Latin America and Caribbean Regional Coordinator, had come with three
others to explore the possibility of an NP deployment to several “communities of peace”
threatened by ongoing violence. During a community meeting, one of the women
stands to make a request. For three years, for fear
of attack, they have been unable to travel in a large
group to the river a kilometer away to bathe and
wash their clothes. Her request is simply this: Could
the team accompany them to the river?
2000 UTC
Colombia
The request highlights the high level of fear among
the local population, who are even afraid of walking
short distances to accomplish their daily tasks. The
NP team agrees to provide the accompaniment.
Thirty-five women and children make the journey with
the team, including children who had never seen the
river because their parents were afraid to take them.
Based in part on the report of the exploratory team,
NP is now seeking funds to make possible the
deployment of civilian unarmed peacekeepers to the
threatened communities.
Leslie and Wilhelm Reindl • Pat and Debby Reisinger • Jose Reissig • Kathleen Remund • Rich Renner
• Kenneth Renwick, Jr. • John Repp • Sven Midelfort and Petra Ressler • John and Maureen Reuwer • Katherine Rhoda • Judith and Walter Rich • Don Richards • Wynette Richards • Julia Richards • James Richardson
• Violet Richman • Audrey and Thomas Richmond • Neil Glickman and Steven Riel • Louis Riley • Esther Riley • Janet Riley • Annie Riley • Matthew Riley • Josephine and Philip Ringgenberg • Alice Ritter • Mary Ritter •
Michael and Genevieve Ritzman • Joseph de Rivera • John and Sally Roach • Marti Roach • Kelly Roadhouse • Barry Robbins • Lauren Rusk and Eric Roberts • Don Roberts • Marileta Robinson • Mark Robinson • Lynn
Pearl Robinson • Shelley, Melissa and Mike Robshaw • Margaret Rockwell • Sharon and Eugene Rodi • Janet Rog • David Rogers • Sherry Rogers-Frost • Rebecca Rollins • Leo Romo • Samuel Washburn and Jane
Ronca-Washburn • Clare Ronzani • Sandra Rooney • Eric Roost and Anna • yons Roost • Bobbie Wren Banks and Dave Root • Harrison and Marilyn Roper • Vince Rosato • Lidian Rose • Betsy Rose • Sharon Rose •
Joy Rose • Bill Rose • Clarice Rosen • Michelle Rosenaur • Marc Rosenbaum • Betty Rice Rosenberg • Sophie Rosenberg • Hyla Rosenburg • Mr. and Mrs. George Rosenstein • Kenneth Roberts and Joan Rosenstein
• Irene Palmer and Robert Rosenthal • Penny Rosenwasser • Mark Rosick • Don Ross • Eithne Ross • Gerald and Concetta Ross • Miceal Ross • Cate Rosseel • Mark Rouch • Rita Rainsford Rouner • Patrick Rouse •
Elisabeth Rowan • C. Gordon and S. Kay Rowe • James and Virginia Rowlands • Shirley • Rowley • Jim and Elizabeth Rowley • Sujata Roy • Judith Roylance • Margaret Rozycki • Raymond and Helen Rozycki • Tom
Timmins and Judith Rubenstein • Stephen and Sandra Rufer • Mary Ellen Rugg • Moira Rummel • Phil Runkel • Diane Ruppert • Mary Ruth • John and Katherine Ryan • Connie and Bruce Ryan • Maria Ryan • Christine
and William Ryan • Jennifer Rycenga • Carole and Roger Rydberg
Eric and Maryann Sabelman • Carol and Bob Sacherman • Dennis and Karen Sackreiter • Sara C Sacksteder • Richard and Barbara Sadler • Ron and Nancy Saegers • Veronika and Helena Safarova • Joan and Frank
Safford • Catherine Sagan • Gregory and Michal Sagar • Sarah Sage • Dorothy Sagona • Irene Saikevych • Vytas Sakalas • Betty Salamun • Clara and George Salloom • Charles & Louise Saltzman • Mary Ann Salz •
Karen Samelson • Hugh Sanborn • Luis Miguel Sanchez • Pat Sandbakken • Peggy Sanders • Ross and Holly Sanderson, Jr. • Karin Sandvik • L.Gary Sansing • Felicia Santini • Steven Sarafolean • Susan Sargent •
Janis Sarles • Linda Sartor • Kimberly Satterfield • Dick and Marie Saunders • Sally Love Saunders • Roger Saur • Sally and David Sawyer • Ben Saylor • Jean Sazevich • Susan Scannell • Mark and Elaine Scannell •
John Scardina • Bill Scarpeti • Sara Scattergood • Jeffrey Scavron • Diane Schadewald • Kenneth Schaefer • Michael Schaeffer • Jeanne and George Lound Schaller • Stacey Schamber • Letta and Sayer Schatz • Robert
Scheele • Patience Schenck • Diane Schieffer • Claire Schiff • Margaret Schiller • Carol Schilling • Suzanne Schilling • Erich Schimps • Margaret Schink • Jackie Schirn • John Schmid • Julie Mall and Darrell Schmidt •
Marilyn and Joe Schmit • James Schmitt • Roger Schmitz • Paul Schmutz • Franz and Mary Schneider • Lars and Ruthe Schoder-Ehri • Ruth Schoenewald • Dr. Marilies Schoeplin • Christine Scholl • Andreas and Judy
Schramm • Judy Schriebman • Barbara Schroder • Jon and Dana Schroeder • Helen and Bob Schroeder • Cecily Schroepfer • Edward and Judith Schuck • Francis Schuele • John Schultz • Cornelia Schulz • Marie Schulz
• Tom and Debra Schumacher • Carolyn Schurr • Randy Schutt • Marie Schutz • Brad Bennett and Barbara Schwartz • Janice Scofield • Paul Scott • Patricia Scott • Anne Scott • Barbara Scott • Peter and Celia Scott • Ann
Scott • Richard Seaman • JoAnn Seaver • Terry L. Johnson and Suzanne Seeley • Carol Seeley • Peter and Bernadette Seely • Theodore and Jean Selby • Doris Seldin • Jack and Susan Sell • Joe Selvaggio • Jeffery
Laird and Marilyn Sequoia • Gail Anderson and Toni Seroshek • Sue Severin • Susan and Gary Sexton • Gertrude B. Seybold • Mike Seymour • Margaret Shaffer • Anne Shainline • Raman and Meenakshi Shanker
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2100 UTC
Guatemala
Claudia Samayoa defending human
rights because “hope will not give way”
In Guatemala, Claudia Samayoa and her staff in the Unit of Protection of Human
Rights Defenders worked tirelessly taking testimonies on violations, recording and
analyzing attacks against defenders, charting trends, and consulting with human rights
organizations from around the country. The result was a powerful report on the state of
human rights defense that has served to orient and inform everyone from the United
Nations and international NGOs to the local defenders themselves.
Claudia’s efforts did not stop there. She led the way in researching the tragic
phenomenon of so-called “social cleansing” directed at stigmatized youth suspected
of being in gangs. Often there is not even a crime associated with these extrajudicial killings. Their crime is being young and poor. The police are unwilling to help or
sometimes even complicit in the crimes.
Such bold initiatives are not welcomed by the “hidden powers” in Guatemala, and come
at considerable risk. Human rights defenders and those who try to tell their stories are
subject to threats, politically motivated break-ins, abduction and assassination. This
is very high risk work that takes a toll on health and family life. When asked why she
continues in spite of all this, Claudia answers, “Because hope will not give way.”
Kandi and Timothy Shanor • Jan and George Shapiro • Jan Shapiro • Celestine Armenta and Chip Sharpe • Fae C. Shatz • Eunice Shatz • Zach Shatz • Maureen Sheahan • Steven Wilson and Mary Shedd • Edmund
Shedd • Christine Sheff • Ames Sheldon • Cindy and Jack Shelton • Helga Shepard • Anderson Shepard • Aaron Shepard • Mary Shepard • Helga Sheperd • Martha Sheppard • Diana Sheppard • Mark and Shelley
Sherman • Brian and Ann Shields • Ryan Shiffer • Kent and Patricia Shifferd • Sylvia Shih • W. Phillips and Barbara Shively • Lynn Shoemaker • Marilyn Sholl • Jeff and Wendy Shore • Donna Shorrock • Catherine C.
Showalter • Ellen and John Showell • Bonnie Shulman • William Shuman • Johanna Sibbett • Daniel Sicken • June Sidman • Kristin Siegesmund • Deb Silverstein • Kenneth Simmons • Judy Simmons • Patricia Simmons
• Elizabeth Simmons • John and Bethene Simmons • Deborah Simons • Aroza Simpson • Scott Simpson • Norma Jean Sims • John and Maxine Sinclair • Suzanne Singer • Mark Sinner • Josephine Sippie-Gora • Frank
Sottile, Jr. and Penny Sirota • Margaret and Alexander Skinner • Janice Skogstrom • David and Marilyn Slautterback • Barbara and Theodore Slovin • James Small • Stanley and Marjorie Smigel • Anne Smith • Barbara
Veale Smith and Mark Smith • Donna Smith • Regina Smith • Nicholas Smith • Carl A. Smith • Fred Smith • Toni Smith • Jeffrey Smith • Clyde and Lucia Wilkes Smith • Catherine Smith • Charlotte Smith • Maureen
Smith • Jerry Smith • Maria Smith • Steven and Patricia Smith • Cherida Collins Smith • Judith Smithey • Lee and Jude Smithey • John Smith-Lontz • Regina Sneed • Roger and Tana Snell • Maryhelen Snyder • Dorothy
Van Soest • Susan Sojourner • Michael and Noellene Sommer • Viki Sonntag • Raymond and Heidi Souza • Barbara and Lovell Sovereen • Margaret N Spallone • Bill Sparks • Michele Spear • John and Louise Speers
• Nancy Spence • Ian Harris and Sara Spencer • Catherine and Richard Spencer • Susan Spencer • Katherine Seeger and Dean Spencer • Eleanor Spiegel • Thomas Block and Deborah Spielberg • Laurel Sprague •
Alison Squier • N.S. Sridharan • Richard Sroczynski • Mary Stack • Mae Stadler • Sheldon and Louise Stahl • Pat and T.E. Stark • Blanche Stark • Larry Starks • Alia Starkweather • Marilyn Stearns • Bill and Julie Steen
• Phil Steger • Florence Steichen • Mike Steigerwald • Lyle Steinfeldt • Rita J. Steinhagen • Jane Steinhagen • Otto and Mary Alice Steinhardt • Jessica Steinitz • Nancy Steinman • Carolyn Stenstrom • John Stephens
• Edwin Stephenson • Susan Stepp • Jach Stern • Martha Sternberg • Mark Sternberg • Ben Marshall and Beth Sternlieb • John Hoffman and Kathryn Stevens • Richard Stevens • Patrick Stevens • Megan Stevenson •
Gordon and Betsy Stevenson • J. Ross and Nancy Stevenson • Mark and Laurie Stewart • David Stewart • David and Elona Street Stewart • Liz Stich • Anne Stillwell • Pat Nicholson and James Stimmel • Baker Stocking
• Kenneth Stocking • Melanie Herzog and Norman Stockwell • Karen Stoddard • Arthur Stoeberl • David Hutcheson and Elizabeth Stoltz • Pablo Stone • Diane Stone • Victor and Susan Stone • Shira Stone • Caryl and
Mike Stone • Jessica Poppele Stone and Mark Stone • Richard Stone • Dan Storms • Lynne Storrar • Marilyn Strand • John and Jeanne Stratford • William Strathmann, M.D. • Alexander Albee and Lynn Strauss • Susan
Strauss • Donald Elfvin and Nancy Strauss • Otto and Mary Alice Streinhardt • David Streitz • Paul and Sarah Strickland • John and Nancy Strom • Alan and Caroline Strout • Karsten Struhl • Dale Stuepfert • Maura
Sullivan • Tom and Mary Ann Sullivan • David and Sheila Sullivan • Jamer and Kathleen Sullivan • John Knoff and Eva Sullivan-Knoff • Dawn Summers • Mark and Tanya Sundberg • Jean Sundborg • Don and Doris
Sundell • Niels and Pat Sundermeyer • Barbara Susman • Robert and Ilah Sutphen • Christine Sutphen • Daina Swanson • Daniel and Roya Swartz • Warren and Betsy Swartzbeck • Leahe Swayze • Len and Adrienne
Swenson • Elizabeth Ann Swift • Alice Swift • Joshua Sykes • Edith Sylvester
Brunhild Tabachnick • Mary Jo Button-Tait and Richard Tait • Theodore Talbott • Dolores Taller • Mary and Greg Tarczynski • S. Kay Tardiff • Margaret Tassi • Linda Taylor • Jeanne Massey and Richard Paul Taylor •
Richard and Phyllis Taylor • Joe and Audrey Taylor • Matthew Taylor • Mariana Garrettson and Jordan Taylor • Jane Taylor • Amary Taylor • Angela Taylor • Jeanne Taylor • Dennis Teall-Fleming
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Clarence White completing one last
grant proposal for the day
The work day is drawing to a close in the century-old
Victorian house that is home to NP’s administrative
headquarters in Minneapolis. Although another day
of fundraising, grant writing, project monitoring and
worldwide staff support is over, activity continues into
the evening. Volunteers stuff envelopes for the latest
fund drive as staff members prepare for an evening
presentation by field team members recently returned
from the Valaichchenai field site in Sri Lanka.
2200 UTC
Minneapolis,
USA
David Hartsough addresses an audience
on the West Coast of the U.S.
The attention of the gathered crowd is undivided as lifelong peace activist and NP cofounder David Hartsough describes the principle and practice of nonviolent intervention.
David brings a half-century of experience and insight to his work for NP. The son of a
Congregationalist minister, David read Gandhi as a child, met Martin Luther King, Jr.
at fifteen, and participated in lunch counter sit-ins during the civil rights movement.
His efforts later turned to anti-war protests
during the Vietnam War and the formation of
Peaceworkers in San Francisco.
It was in 1999 that David Hartsough and
Mel Duncan arrived at the Hague Peace
Conference independently to suggest the
formation of a “nonviolent peaceforce.”
Three years later, the organization was a
reality.
2300 UTC
San Francisco,
USA
Jon and Linnea Swenson Tellekson • Eva Abbott and Van Temple • Jack and Marion Templeton • John Terrell • Andrea Thayer • Ellen Thayer • Rachel and Jack Thibault • Patricia Tholl • Lawrence Thomas • Mae
Gautier and Norm Thomas • Friday B. Thomas • Barbara Thomas • Bonnie Thomas • Alan Thomas • Carolyn Thompson • Peter Thompson • James and Elizabeth Thompson • John Thompson • Sara Thomsen • Virginia
Thornthwaite • Evelyn Thornton • Nancy Thrams • Marlys Tice • David Tidball • Jon Tiedeman • Ann Tiffany • Ken Tilsen • Paula S. Timmerman • Kate Havelin and Leo Timmons • Bruce and Judith Timmons • Christa
Tinari • Jill and Robert Tinsley • Mary Tinucci • Gregory Tippett • Mary Ellen and Dale Tithof • Rich and Barb Tittle • Norman and Betty Tjossem • Mary M Tjosvold • George Tlamsa • Louis and Frances Tobian • Pauline
Tobias • Claire Todd • Patricia Tom • Frieda Tomlin • Barbara and Edward Tonningsen • Nichola Torbett • Paul Torrey • Damian Torrisi • Andrew R. Towl • Elizabeth Townsend • Gay Trachsel • Chuck and Anna Tracy • Mary
Treacy • Douglas Bender and Emma Trejo • Fran and Mike Trevisan • Joanne Tromiczak-Neid • Tom Troolin • C. Tropp • Amy Blumenshine and Mike Troutman • Barbara Troxell • Phil Troxler • Donald and Jane Truhlar
• Kenneth Truitner • Susan Trumbore • Conrad Trumbore • Helene and Maurice Tuchman • Edith Tugman • Bill Houston and Hazel Tulecke • Scott Beadenkopf and Judy Turetsky • Marguerite and Joanne Turgeon •
Fred and Kay Turk • Stephen and Elaine Turnbull • Robert and Margaret Turner • Shannon Turner-Covell • James Turnure • Emily Ann Staples Tuttle and Gedney Tuttle • Tran Khanh Tuyet • David Mann and Pamela
Twiss • Colleen TwoFeathers • Robert Tyler
Haruka Uehara • Karel Baloun and Naoko Uehara • Warren Uhte • Reven Uihlein-Fellars • John Uldrich • Mark Umbreit • Ann Elaine and Sylvia Ungar • Mary Lee Morrison and William Upholt • David Utoft • GH Utterback
• Barbara Vaile • Grace Valentine • Alice Vanamerongen • Terry Vandenhoek • Marjorie Vandervoort • Gretchen VanScoy • Peter Vanzant • Stefanie Hawka and John Varani • Timothy Killikelly and Rosemary Varlese •
Rita Irene Varley • Gail Vaughn • Jim and Kathleen Vellenga • Phoebe Vernon • Jean Verthein • Gail Vick • Polly Victor • Nancy Vileno • Ruth Villalovos • Cecilia Vistica • Marilena Viviani • Rebecca Knittle and Howard
Vogel • Elizabeth Claggett-Borne and Johnathan Vogel-Borne • Jane Volckhausen • Paula and Keith Voos • Lauren Vreeland-Long
Dianne Wachs • Alice Waco • Jim Ramnaraine and Tina Wade • Margaret Wagner • Richard and Linda Wahl • Rosalie Wahl • Marta and Martin Waibel • Anne Walch • William Waldron • Jeanne Walentiny-Johnson •
Pat and Samuel Walker • Carol Walker • Lindsey Walker • Rolene Walker • Barbara Walker • Helen Rice and Arnold Walker • Barbara Wallace • Carole Wallace • Mary Wallace • Charles Wallace • Margaret Wallace •
Gloria Wallace • Elaine Waller-Rose • Winston and Maxinne Wallin • Bettine and Lawrence Wallin • Catherine and John Walsh • Rhoda Walter • John and Carol Walz • Wilfred Ward • Dale and Jennifer Warner • Michael
Haney and Amy Warner • Ann and Dale Warner • Tom and Zantha Warth • Diane Commers and Jack Wartnick • Mal Warwick • Judy Michalowski and Barry L. Wasserman • Joel Weisberg and Janet Watchman • Beth
Waterhouse • Norma Waters • David Watkins • Janet Watson • Richard Weaver • Bridget Webb • Martha Roberts and Stuart Webb • Marie Weber • Marlys Weber • Cathy Webster • Lee Webster • Mary Wechsler • A.D.
Wee • Jane Weed-Pomerantz • Charles and Sarah Lee Weems • Charles and Debra Van de Weghe • John Goggin and Julie Weighter • Caroline Wildflower and Clint Weimester • Stuart and Susan Weinstein • William
Weir • Richard Weis • Michelle Lefkowitz and Stuart Weiss • Fred and Frances Weiss • Pam Costain and Lawrence Weiss • Leo Weisz • Alice Weldon • Jeff Wells • • Susan and James Welna • Helen Welter • Sandy
Wenzel • Noah West • Richard and Sandra Westby • Barbara Westenberg • Michael Westerhaus • Donald and Maryjane Westra • Patricia Westwater-Jang • Dianne Weyers • Margie White • Margaret and Norman White
• Clarence White • James and Mary White • Jane Whiteside • Theresa Wicka • Saul and Joan Wider • Cathy Heying and Wendy Wiegmann • Barbra Wiener • Ken Solberg and Jacque Wiersma • Gary Wiesendanger •
Rich and Margaret Wildberger • Cheryl Wilfong • Sara Wilkinson • Patricia Wilkinson • Frances and Frank Wilkinson • Stephen and Elizabeth Willey • Barbara Clay and Eugenia Williams • John and Christa Williams
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2400 UTC
Minneapolis
USA
Executive Director Mel Duncan makes
a final status check
Executive Director and NP co-founder Mel Duncan sits at the heart of this complex
and ever-changing organization. As our global day comes to a close, Mel checks
e-mail one last time from his Minneapolis office to ensure that the day’s questions
have been addressed, needs met, and enough encouragement and direction given to
see the organization through to morning. As always, the day has included countless
uncertainties, setbacks, complications and frustrations. But there have also been
forward strides, encouraging signs, heartening victories, and reasons for great
confidence and hope.
We have seen the courage and commitment of NP’s Field Teams, the engagement and
unwavering support of the Advocate Team, and the creativity and tireless efforts of an
extraordinary worldwide network of NP staff and volunteers. Most important, we have
looked into the faces and lives of real people around the world for whom violence is an
everyday reality. It is the recognition of our shared humanity with the victims of violence
that energizes and motivates the people of Nonviolent Peaceforce to build a viable,
sustainable alternative to violent conflict, to give the human race something to say yes
to when – at long last – it says no to war.
Jodine Williams • Matthew Williams • Roger and Kristi Williams
• Linda Williams • Carolyn Williams • Katie and Dyke Williams
• Janet Williams • Bill Williams • Mary Wilmes • Mason and
Barbara Wilson • Olive Wilson • Susanne Ratcliffe Wilson • Pearl
and William Wilson • Jacquelyn Wilson • Tonika Wilson • Richard
Wilson • Gail and Tom Wilson • Tom and Eileen Abigail Wilson
• Bradley Winch • Gordon and Enid Winchell • Douglas and
Carol Wingeier • June Keener Wink and Walter Wink • Ben and
Sloane Winkes • Anne and Ken Winkes • Ronald Winkler • Mike
and Penny Winton • Hugh Wire • Cecilia Wirth • Mercedes and
John Witherspoon • Joan Witte • Wayne Wittman • Pat Wixom •
Donna and Thomas Woehrle • Kenneth and Francine Woerthwin
• Roger and Myra Wolcott • Margaret Wolcott • Karen Utter and
Steve Woletz • Virginia Wolf • Roy and Judy Wolff • Sue Wolpert
• Maisie and Dick Wolson • Anne Wong • Rex Wood • Kimberly
and John Wood • David Woodard • Dale and Ann Woodbeck •
Peter Woodrow • Ruth Woods • Barbara Woods • Joe Woodward
• Paul Monsky and Beverly Woodward • Charles Workman •
Berhane and Sally Worku • Robert and Mary Worner • Elizabeth
and Catherine Wray • Nancy Wrenn • Jenny Wrenson • Marietta Wright • Margaret and Angus Wurtele • Linda Wymore • Dave Wytock
John and Eleanor Yackel • Charles Yannacone • Joselyn Yleen • Lynne Young • Elisabeth Young • Carol Jensen and Ronald Young • Robert and Ruth Zack • Anne Zanes • Massimo Zappala • Jerry Zawada, OFM and
San Damiano Friary • Phillip and Carole Zediker • Fran Zeff • • Joanne Zema • Ruth Zemek • Joyce Zerwekh • Sally Zierler • Elissa Zimmerman • Barbara ZimmerMason • Karen Clark and Jackie Zita • Robin Zitter •
Sarai Zitter • Sherry Zitter • Joe Stanley and Lori Zook-Stanley • Paul Zulkowitz • C. Zwicky
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2007
A Pivotal Year for NP
2007 will be a pivotal year in the developing vision and
reality of Nonviolent Peaceforce. In addition to the
expansion and external evaluation of the Sri Lanka project,
2007 will see the full launch of a second field project on the
island of Mindanao, the further development of projects
in Uganda and Colombia, and the first test of NP’s rapid
deployment capabilities in Guatemala.
Peacekeeper training in Ecuador, Romania and India
will further accelerate the organization’s rapidly growing
capacity, while the training of assessors of recruits
ensures the maintenance of a high standard of readiness
in the field.
As a means of strengthening NP’s identification of and
outreach to available and qualified people who could
be trained and deployed to the field, NP partnered with
Peaceworkers UK, supporting them to develop their
web-based Registry, which grew from 700 to over 2000
potential future peacekeepers.
The coming year is also a time of reflection and planning
as we complete our multiyear strategic plan and host an
International Conference and International Assembly in
Nairobi, bringing together NP Member Organizations and
representatives of governments and agencies around the
world to promote the principle and practice of unarmed
civilian peacekeeping.
This is a time of great challenge and even greater
possibility as we strive to make Gandhi’s
vision of a Shanti Sena – an “army of peace”
– a global reality.
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International Governance Council
Africa
Europe
Omar Diop John Stewart,
Senegal Zimbabwe
Kai Frithjof
Brand-Jacobsen
Romania
Simonetta Costanzo
Pittaluga, Spain
Middle East
Renad Qubbaj Israel Naor, Israel
Palestine
North America
Asia/Pacific
Tim Wallis, Co-Chair
United Kingdom
Young Kim
South Korea
Akihiko Kimijima
Japan
Latin America
Donna Howard Sheri Wander
Secretary USA
(from June ‚06)
USA
At Large
Ramu Manivannan
India
International
Claudia Samayoa Paloma Ayala Vela
Co-Chair Mexico
Guatemala
Eric Bachman
Treasurer
Germany
Antonio Coelho
Uruguay
Lyn Adamson
Secretary
(resigned from IGC
June ‘06)
Canada
Hindolo (Michael)
Pokawa
Sierra Leone/USA
International Staff
Mel Duncan
Executive Director
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David Grant, Strategic
Relations Director
Lyn Adamson, Interim
Capacity Building Director
(from June ‘06)
Rachel Julian
Fundraising Director
Nick Mele
Communications
Director
Christine Schweitzer
Programme Director
Regional Coordinators
Redemptor Ries Binta
Africa
Rajiv Vora
Asia/Pacific
Alessandro Rossi
Europe
Alvaro Ramirez-Durini
Latin America and
the Caribbean
Member Organizations
INTERNATIONAL
Center for Nonviolent
Communication
International Fellowship
of Reconciliation
International Peace Bureau
International Women’s Peace
Service
Nonviolence International
Zen Peacemakers
Unrepresented Nations and
Peoples’ Organisation
YES! Youth for Environmental
Sanity
AFRICA
Academic Associates/
PeaceWorks, Nigeria
CEMADEV-Femme, Rwanda
Chemchemi Ya Ukweli
(UYK)—Wellspring of Truth,
Kenya
IFCA (Institute for
Commercial and
Administrative Training),
Burundi
Mano River Women’s
Network, Guinea
NOVASC—Nonviolent Action
and Strategies for Social
Change, Zimbabwe
WANEP-West Africa Network
for Peacekeeping, Ghana,
Senegal
WOPD-Women Organization
for Peace and
Development, Kenya
ASIA/PACIFIC
AKKAPKA Action for Peace
and Justice, Philippines
Asian Forum for Human
Rights and Development,
Thailand
Association of Peoples of
Asia, India
Australia Yearly Meeting of
the Religious Society of
Friends
Center for the Study and
Promotion of Peace,
Duta Wacana Christian
University, Indonesia
Committee for Nonviolent
Action in Burma, India
Foundation for Democracy,
Pakistan
Friends of Tibet, India
Friends Without Borders,
Pakistan
Lakshmi Ashram, India
Nipponzan Myohoji, Japan
Nonviolent Peaceforce
Australia
Nonviolent Peaceforce Japan
Nonviolent Peaceforce Korea
PAKAT, Phillipines
Peace Boat, Japan
The Peace Foundation, New
Zealand
Peace Information Center,
Thailand
Pyungtongsa (Solidarity for
Peace and Reunification in
Korea), Korea
Resource Center for
Empowerment and
Development, Philippines
Swarajpeeth, India
Tibetan Parliamentary and
Policy Research Center,
India
Women Making Peace,
Korea
Women Peacemakers,
Cambodia
Youth Approach for
Development &
Cooperation, Bangladesh
Joan Bernstein
North America
EUROPE
The Aland Islands Peace
Institute, Finland
Austrian Study Center
for Peace and Conflict
Resolution, Austria
Berretti Bianchi Onlus, Italy
Bund fuer Soziale
Verteidigung, Germany
Center for Peace Studies—
University of Tromso,
Norway
Centro Studi Difesa Civile,
Italy
MAN-Mouvement pour une
Alternative Non-violente,
France
European Platform for
Conflict Prevention
and Transformation,
Netherlands
Forum ZFD Civil Peace
Service, Germany
NFL-Norges Fredslag, Norway
Netherlands Expert Centre
Alternatives to Violence
Nonviolence International,
Russia
NOVA Centre per a la
Innovacio Social, Spain
PATRIR Peace Action Training
and Research Institute of
Romania
Peaceworkers UK, England
Scottish Centre for
Nonviolence
Switzerland Without An Army
Women in Black Against War,
Serbia
LATIN AMERICA
Accion Andina, Bolivia
Asociación Pro-Busqueda
de Niñas y Niños
Desapercidos, El Slavador
Comisión de Apoyo a la
Unidad y Reconciliación
Comunitaria Mexico
CORECO, Mexico
En Centro­america,
CODEHUCA, Costa Rica
Franciscans International,
Bolivia
Fundación Boliviana de la
Juventud, Bolivia
Fundación Instituto de
Mediación, Argentina
Fundación Rigoberta
Menchu Tum, Guatemala
Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo,
Guatemala
Iniciative Ecumenica Oscar
Romero, Uruguay
Red de Apoyo por la Justicia
y la Paz, Venezuela
Red de Cooperación
Internacional, Uruguay
SERPAZ, Ecuador
MIDDLE EAST
Fez Sais, Morocco
Grassroots International
for the Protection of
Palestinians, Palestine
Holy Land Trust, Palestine
Israeli Committee Against
House Demolitons, Israel
International Solidarity
Movement, Palestine
MEND Middle East
Nonviolence and
Democracy, Palestine
Palestinian Center for
Rapproche­ment Between
People, Palestine
NORTH AMERICA
Buddhist Peace Fellowship,
USA
CONTACT, USA
Fellowship of Reconciliation,
USA
Global Exchange, USA
Global Peace Services, USA
Jewish Peace Fellowship,
USA
Michigan Peace Team, USA
Nonviolent PeaceforceCanada
Pace e Bene-USA
Pax-Christi-USA
Peaceful Tomorrows, USA
Peaceworkers US, USA
Sojourners, USA
Tikkun, USA
Training for Change, USA
Voices of Women for Peace,
Canada
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Foundation Support
Anonymous
Ahimsa Fund
Ann & Jack Dietrich Family Foundation of the Advisor
Charitable Gift Fund
Appleton Foundation
Arsenault Family Foundation
The Aurora Fund (Santa Fe)
Baltins Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation
Bob & Eileen Gilman Family Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Celebrate Living Fund,a Donor Advised Fund at Jewish
Family & Children Services, San Francisco
Colombe Foundation
Community Foundation of Broward
Community Solutions Fund
Constance Otis Fund of the Saint Paul Foundation
The Craig Fund, a Calvert Giving Fund
Dell Charitable Trust
The Dick & Joyce McFarland Family Fund of the
Minneapolis Foundation
Elizabeth T. Lukens Charitable Fund of the Fidelity
Charitable Gift Fund
The Father Keefe Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Fenwick Foundation
First Unitarian Society
Foundation for the Development of Human Potential
The Funny Times Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
The George Family Foundation
The Greystone Foundation
Heller-Bernard Fund of the Funding Exchange
I Do Foundation
James Ford Bell Foundation
Kopp Family Foundation
Lincoln Community Foundation, Inc.
The Lottie Noth Fund
Marbrook Foundation
Margaret Mellon Hitchcock Foundation
McKenzie River Gathering Foundation
The McKnight Foundation
Mendell Family fund
Oswald Family Foundation
Ploughshares Fund
Pollard-Gonzalez Family Charitable Fund at the Community
Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Sacajawea Charitable Foundation
The Saint Paul Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Sam and Susan Merrill Fund
Samuel Rubin Foundation
Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving
Sheilah’s Fund of the Tides Foundation
The Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation
Solidago Foundation
Swanee Hunt Family Foundation
The ERK Donations Fund of the Schwab Fund for
Charitable Giving
Tikkun Olam Fund of the Calvert Foundation
The Valentine Fund of the Tides Foundation
The Wurtele Family Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation
Business Support
Dain Rauscher, Minnetonka, MN
Jaros Volunteer Committee, Duluth, MN
Market Street Grill, West Chestnut, MA
Peace Coffee, Minneapolis, MN
Covington Inn, St. Paul, MN
The Matalia Group, Kulpsville, PA
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Eurimage spa, Rome, Italy
Hopfensperger Hair Design, MI
Sedona School of Massage, AZ
Sun Country Realty, WA
Grass Lake Medical Center, MI
Institutional Support
UNICEF(United Nations Children’s Fund), Sri Lanka
UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
European Commission - Socrates Programme
Projekt Zivik - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, German
Federal Foreign Ministry
Cordaid, Netherlands
Fons Català de Cooperacio’ al Desenvolupament (Catalan
Fund for Development Cooperation), Spain
Christian Aid, UK
AUSAID
The Norwegian Peace Association
Faith and Community Organization Support
Academy Of Our Lady Of Lourdes, Rochester, MN
All Saints Lutheran Church, Minnetonka, MN
Benedictine Sisters of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Berkeley Society of Friends, Berkeley, CA
Camden Friends, Camden, NJ
Central Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, PA
Celebrate Living Fund, San Francisco, CA
Church of Good Neighbors, Minneapolis, MN
Church of St. Frances Cabrini, Minneapolis, MN
Church of St. Joan of Arc, Minneapolis, MN
College of St. Benedict, Collegeville, MN
Concord Monthly Meeting, Concord, MA
Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, PA
Council of Women Religious, Missoula, MT
Dayton Avenue Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, MN
Dominican Sisters, St. Mary of the Springs, Columbus, OH
Doylestown Monthly Meeting, Doylestown, PA
First Unitarian Universalist Church, San Diego, CA
First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis, MN
Franciscan Prayer Group, Albuquerque, NM
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, Little Falls, MN
Franciscan Sisters of St. Paul, St. Paul, MN
Gathering Tribes
Girl Scout Council of Greater Minneapolis
Greater Bethlehem Council of Churches, Bethlehem, PA
Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, Springfield, IL
Ithaca Monthly Meeting of Friends, Ithaca, NY
Jewish Family and Children’s Services, St. Paul, MN
Kirkland Interfaith Network
Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Bremerton, WA
Kurth Religious Trust, Brookfield, WI
Lake County Friends, Clearlake, CA
Lansdowne Friends Meeting, Inc, Lansdowne, PA
Marin Friends Meeting, San Rafael, CA
Medical Missionaries of Mary
Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting of Friends, Mt. Holly, NJ
New York Yearly Meeting, New York, NY
Newport Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WA
Nova Catholic Community, Arlington, VA
Pauline Feiner and Sisters of the Divine Savior, Milwaukee,
WI
Pax Christi Minnesota
Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, MN
The Puget Sound Network
Quaker Friends Geneva, Switzerland
St. David’s Episcopal Church, San Diego, CA
School Sisters of Notre Dame, Mankato, MN
School Sisters of Notre Dame, St. Louis, MO
Servants of Mary, LaCrosse, WI
Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God, Pittsburgh,
PA
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dubuque, IA
Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kansas City, KA
Sisters of Mercy, Lansing, MI
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Ridge, NY
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Inc., Silver Spring , MD
Sisters of Providence, Terra Haute, IN
Sisters of St. Dominic, San Rafael, CA
Sisters of St. Dominic, Racine, WI
Sisters of St. Francis, Janesville, MN
Sisters of St. Francis, Colorado Springs, CO
Sisters of St. Francis, Jessup, IA
Sisters of St. Francis, Chicago, IL
Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross, Green Bay, WI
Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Louis, MO
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Paul, MN
Sisters of the Divine Savior, Milwaukee, WI
Society of the Divine Word, Technary, IL
Spirit United Church, Minneapolis, MN
Tavola Valdese, Italy
The Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Minneapolis, MN
Third Haven Monthly Meeting
Unitarian Church of Willmar, Willmar, MN
Unitarian Fellowship of Houston
Unitarian Fellowship of West Chester, West Chester, PA
Unitarian Universalist Church, Fargo, ND
United Christian Church, Levittown, PA
Wheaton Franciscan Sisters Corporation, Wheaton, IL
Yellow Springs Friends Meeting, Yellow Springs, OH
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lower Bucks,
Langhome, PA
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Financial Report
Statement of Financial Condition
December 31, 2006 and 2005
ASSETS
Current Assets:
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Receivables
Prepaid Expenses
Total Current Assets
Property and Equipment
Deposit
Total Assets
2006
2005
$704,595
134,870
7,911
847,376
56,707
820
$904,903
$901,265
54,600
2,184
958,049
65,357
820
$1,024,226
$43,328
20,000
63,328
16,666
79,994
$13,995
13,995
76,667
90,662
Net Assets:
Unrestricted
Temporarily Restricted
Total Net Assets
659,255
165,654
$824,909
611,204
322,360
$933,564
Total Liabilities And Net Assets
$904,903
$1,024,226
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Current Liabilities:
Accounts Payable
Current Portion of Long-Term Debt
Total Current Liabilities
Long-Term Debt
Total Liabilities
This statement summarizes the activities of the three legal entities composing the international
body of Nonviolent Peaceforce. Accounts are audited separately under the legislations of
Belgium, U.S., and Sri Lanka. Auditors’ statements are available upon request.
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Statement of Activities
For the year ending December 31, 2006
SUPPORT AND REVENUE
Individuals
Foundations/Corporations
Government Grants
Faith Communities
Interest/Dividend Income
Miscellaneous Income
In-Kind Contributions
Total Support and Revenue
EXPENSES
Deployed Peacekeepers
Advocacy and Strategic Relations
Training and Capacity Building
Total Program Services
Support Services:
Management, Governance and
General
Fundraising
Total Support Services
Total Expense
Change In Net Assets
Net Assets - Beginning of Year
Net Assets - End of Year
Revenue 2006
$1,373,764
595,805
512,028
107,905
11,877
500
138,420
$2,740,299
In-Kind
5.1%
Government
Grants
18.7%
Foundations and
Corporations
21.7%
Individuals
50.1%
Faith
Communities
3.9%
$1,565,337
190,371
335,234
2,090,942
343,132
414,880
758,012
$2,848,954
$108,655
$933,564
$824,909
Expenses 2006
Fundraising
14.6%
Advocacy and
Strategic
Relations
6.7%
Management,
Governance
and General
12.0%
Deployed
Peacekeepers
54.9%
Training and
Capacity
Building
11.8%
* Euros converted to $1.25 U.S. Dollars based on the average
exchange rate during 2006.
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WHAT IS NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE?
NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE (NP) is an international nongovernmental organization
providing an unarmed protective force of trained civilians from around the world. In
partnership with local groups, NP members apply proven non-violent strategies to protect
human rights, deter violence, and create safe space for local peacemakers to do their
work.
initiated in 1999 at the Hague Appeal for Peace and begun in 2002 at Surajkund, India,
NP is a global federation of nearly 100 Member Organizations and is endorsed by eight
Nobel Peace Laureates.
Our vision is to create a large-scale nonviolent peace force supporting and protecting
local civil society in conflict areas through the development of field projects and additional
models for deployment, public education, training and advocacy.
NP launched its first global joint project in Sri Lanka in summer 2003 at the invitation
of and in partnership with local groups. More than 64,000 people have been killed and 1.6
million displaced in the civil war that has ravaged Sri Lanka since 1983.
In 2005, NP began working toward the launch of additional projects in the Philippines,
Uganda and Colombia.
OUR FIELD TEAM MEMBERS use various techniques to reduce and prevent violence,
each applied appropriately to particular circumstances. These include:
• Accompanying civil society activists, especially human rights defenders and
peaceworkers;
• Providing proactive presence to vulnerable groups and communities;
• Monitoring ceasefire agreements, demonstrations and other volatile situations;
• Coordinating with other non-governmental organizations for maximum
effectiveness;
• Consulting with local activists and communities about their needs in times of
crisis;
• Providing safe places to meet and to bridge communities in conflict.
Funding for NP comes from a diverse base, including foundations, individuals,
religious communities, governments, independent aid agencies and UN organizations such
as UNICEF and UNHCR.
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Give the Gift of Peace!
When you make a donation to Nonviolent Peaceforce in the form of Peace Bonds,
the return on your ‘investment’ is priceless... you are directly supporting unarmed
peacekeepers working to reduce violence around the world. Visit buypeacebonds.org
or mail check with value(s) and quantity desired to the Minneapolis office. What better
gift is there?
$10
Two Hours of Peace
$100
2 Days of Peace
$25
The Space for Peace
$250
50 Hours of Peace
$50
A Day of Peace
$500
100 Hours of Peace
Bringing People Together
Bringing people together in a neutral
setting encourages mutual respect and
understanding.
Preventing Election Violence
International presence during elections
empowers citizens to express their beliefs
and ideals.
Safe Passages
The Heart of the Community
Unarmed peacekeepers protect vulnerable
Our open offices in the heart of the
community help demonstrate that we are not refugees as they recover and rebuild.
on one side or the other but on the side of the
people.
Rumor Control
Rumor control can prevent unnecessary
retaliation.
No Child Should be a Soldier
Preventing children from recruitment into
organized armed forces creates a better
future for us all.
www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Nonviolent Peaceforce Sri Lanka
Nonviolent Peaceforce Europe
Rue Van Elewyck 35
B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM
32 2 648 0076 (tel & fax)
[email protected]
26a Ediriweera Mawatha
Dehiwala, SRI LANKA
94 11 273 6958 (tel & fax)
[email protected]
Nonviolent Peaceforce USA
425 Oak Grove Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403, USA
612-871-0005 tel, 612 871 0006 fax
[email protected]
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