Witness for Peace International Team—Colombia Application
If you'd like to join the Witness for Peace International Team in Colombia, please use the application
below to tell us about yourself. If you have any questions about the application, please email Jess HunterBowman, Associate Director, at jess@witnessforpeace.org.
Please complete the application and email it to jess@witnessforpeace.org as a Word attachment by
October 31, 2011. Applications received after this date will not be considered.
BASIC INFORMATION:
Name:
Address:
City:
Phone:
Email:
DOB:
Gender:
Marital Status:
Children:
Occupation:
Birthplace:
Passport #:
Valid until:
Permanent Address:
How did you hear about WfP?
HEALTH AND EMERGENCY INFORMATION:
-General health: excellent good fair poor
-Do you take any regular medication(s)?
-Do you have any history of drug and/or alcohol abuse (optional)?
-Have you been hospitalized for an emotional or mental illness in the last year (optional)?
-Whom should we contact in case of emergency (please include contact information)?
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
All International Team members are expected to be conversationally fluent in Spanish. Witness for
Peace will conduct an evaluation of language skills to ensure that applicants meet the minimum required
skill level.
Spanish level: fluent conversationally fluent good fair minimal
How did you become fluent?
Other languages?
Please provide email addresses for three professional references who can speak to your ability to
excel with WFP.
Please attach a resume, listing all relevant educational experiences, including internships,
beginning with the most recent; all relevant work experience, full-time, part time and volunteer,
beginning with most recent and all Latin America experience.
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With what other organizations are you currently involved?
Org:
hours/week
1) Describe your work style. How do you relate to employers? Other employees? What is your
greatest source of work related stress and how do you handle it?
2) What skills have you developed as a result of work experiences?
3) What are your strengths?
What are your challenges or weaknesses?
4) What experience have you had living/working in cross-cultural settings, especially in
“underdeveloped” countries? How has that affected you?
FAITH AND CONSCIENCE:
As a community of people guided by faith and conscience, Witness for Peace takes inspiration from a
long history of nonviolent social justice movements, spiritual texts and other literature on faith. Would you
be comfortable participating in group reflections and other forms of interfaith expressions?
FUNDRAISING:
-Is there a group/organization or a worship body that shares Witness for Peace values which could
sponsor you while you are on the International Team?
-Would you be willing to participate in and support a team fundraising effort?
ESSAY QUESTIONS: (Please limit responses to each question to 250 words or less)
1) What motivates you to work for peace and justice?
2) Why do you want to work on the WfP International Team? Why is WfP’s work in Colombia
important? In the U.S?
3) Describe your interest in the Colombia program site.
4) What experiences have prepared you to work with WfP in Colombia?
5) Have you ever lived or travelled in an area where your personal security was at considerable risk
due to any type of security issue? Please describe that experience and how you handled the
stress of living under those conditions.
5) What do you think are the principal effects of U.S. policy in the Andean region?
6) What do you think should be the role of U.S. citizens in Latin America?
7) What is your understanding of the interrelationship between various forms of discrimination (i.e.
gender, race, sexual orientation, class, language, etc)?
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8) Discuss your identity and background and how they relate to your understanding of
discrimination.
9) What does non-violence mean to you?
10) What is your response to poverty?
11) What do you think are the root causes of poverty? What experiences have led you to these
conclusions?
12) Using no more than one page, please concisely tell us your life story. Include the people and
events that you consider of greatest significance in your development