Nonviolent Peace force
living
peacework
the faces of
nonviolent peaceforce
annual report 2008
dear friends of nonviolent peaceforce,
We made it! During a year of intense financial challenges, Nonviolent
­Peaceforce not only survived but we thrived! This was achieved through the
dedicated and often unglamorous acts carried out by many staff, volunteers
and donors, as well as our peacekeepers and local staff in Sri Lanka, Mindanao
and Guatemala.
We started feeling the pangs of the financial crisis in late 2007, finishing
the year with barely enough to keep going. Yet, despite the financial turbulence of the past months, we rebounded with a 25 percent growth in our
income. While our individual donors boosted their giving, we were also able
to increase the number of government institutional supporters from 8 to 15.
Our unity of purpose has been remarkable. In 2008, we were able to successfully complete a peacekeeping project in Guatemala. We continued to
increase our efforts in Sri Lanka, expanding to provide protection of civilians
in Colombo. We received a 500,000 Euro grant from the European Commission
which allows us to double the number of peacekeepers in Mindanao. At the
UN, the Canadian Mission sponsored a briefing on unarmed civilian peacekeeping for members of the Security Council and Peacebuilding Commission
featuring NP’s work.
Yet, the buoyancy of our success is tempered as I reflect on growing
­humanitarian crises and terrible human cruelty around the world. I was moved
by Sami Awad of our member organization, Holy Land Trust, when he wrote:
All I know is that we need to continue building our models…
models of leadership that are committed to a future that goes
beyond everyone’s imagination, models of relationships that
break all barriers and identities, models of self organizing community living that are truly based on creating relationships
of deep trust, respect and transparency at all levels and in all
circumstances.
We will continue to face challenges, but we face them with a confidence of
knowing that we have survived a deep test. NP is resilient.
With hope and resolve,
Mel Duncan, Executive Director
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HEY COME FROM 39 COUNTRIES SPEAKING MYRIAD LANGUAGES.
They are teachers and engineers, artists and activists, writers
and medics, accountants and community organizers who
offer their time and talents in active pursuit of a more peaceful world.
Although their beliefs are varied, one conviction binds them in common
purpose—that peace is worth working for.
2008 presented particular challenges for Nonviolent Peaceforce. In
addition to sudden escalations of violence in the countries where our
peacekeepers work, several developments in the external financial
context, not least the first months of the global financial crisis, challenged
our ability to meet the ever-increasing demand for civilian peacekeeping.
It was in that moment that the people of NP—peacekeepers, staff,
advisors, donors, partners and friends—came together with a renewed
sense of purpose and determination to restore NP’s vitality.
As the calendar turned to 2009, it became clear that we had
weathered the storm. Nonviolent Peaceforce is now stronger in many
ways than ever before, thanks primarily to the creative generosity and
spirit of our extended family of members and supporters during our time
of greatest need.
It is to these examples of living peacework that this report is
dedicated. These are the faces of Nonviolent Peaceforce.
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UGUST OF 2008 WAS A TERRIBLE MONTH IN MINDANAO. THE BREAKDOWN
Michael Tanya Obodi
Kenya
International Civilian Peacekeeper
Mindanao, Philippines
of talks between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF) was quickly followed by a resumption of hostilities on the 8th of August.
NP was one of the few international organizations working in Central Mindanao as
fighting resumed. The assistance of International Civilian Peacekeeper (ICP) Michael
Obodi and his NP colleagues was suddenly in urgent demand as over 100,000 civilians were displaced. The NP ICPs accompanied displaced persons to evacuation
centers and stayed with them for two nights.
“Accompaniment builds people’s confidence and strengthens their aspirations
for peace and human rights,” said Michael. “By offering an international presence,
we also provided deterrence by raising the stakes of any violent action taken either
by state or non-state actors. The presence of an international organization provides
moral support and acts as a show of solidarity with both civil societies working on the
ground and communities affected by the conflict.”
By August 17th, NP Peacekeepers were able to accompany many displaced families back to their homes.
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HILIPPINES COUNTRY DIRECTOR ATIF HAMEED HELPED GIVE AN HISTORIC
Atif Hameed
Pakistan
Country director, NP Philippines
Mindanao, Philippines
presentation to members of the United Nations Security Council in July, outlining the
political, economic and social impact of unarmed civilian peacekeeping.
The event, hosted by the Canadian Mission to the UN, was “quite successful,” Atif
said afterward. “It raised awareness at the highest policy level about ways in which
unarmed civilian peacekeepers apply proactive presence to reduce and prevent violence in conflict areas.”
Weeks later, as peace talks broke down and violence resumed in Mindanao, Atif
found himself facilitating precisely the proactive presence he had described at the UN.
Units of the armed forces began taking positions against a MILF base commander. All
civilians were ordered from the area. In the confusion and panic, one of the families left
behind a partially paralyzed grandmother. After trying for two days to return to the village
without success, the desperate family requested help from NP.
Under Atif’s direction, the NP team coordinated with both combatants for permission
to enter the area. A window of thirty minutes was granted to retrieve the woman.
After 48 hours alone, Atif said, “The woman was lying in a pool of hundreds of spent
shells—curled up in a corner, but alive.” They carried her to a waiting NP vehicle and
evacuated the firing zone just as time expired.
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S THE WAR ESCALATED IN THE NORTH, ITS EFFECTS IN COLOMBO
continued to be felt in the form of increasing military presence on the streets,
suicide bombings and other killings and disappearances. The high-profile killing of
­Lasantha Wickremetunga, editor of a popular English weekly newspaper known for
its opposition to the current government, brought the situation in the capital to the
world’s attention in January 2009, but throughout 2008 NP was working to protect
people ­under threat in Colombo. King Ayettey and other members of NP’s Colombo
Response Team (CRT) provided protective accompaniments to these threatened
individuals.
Providing international protective accompaniment to vulnerable journalists,
­human rights defenders and other threatened individuals and families to safely
access recourse mechanisms constitutes the biggest portion of CRT’s work. Working with partners in Colombo, CRT often coordinates with the teams in the field to
provide protection for people traveling to and from Colombo, where many nationallevel services and institutions are located. For example, CRT has coordinated with
the Jaffna team to meet and accompany human rights defenders who have worked
with NP in Jaffna for a long time, to be able to accompany them as they continue
their work in Colombo.
The kinds of services that people need to access with NP’s help are many and
varied, as are the threats that they face. People use CRT’s accompaniments to visit
threatened family members, to access medical care, to meet with people in the diplomatic community and in civil society, and to access Sri Lankan legal and governmental mechanisms, including institutions such as the Human Rights Council.
CRT focuses its interventions on Sri Lankan civilians who themselves are acting
as civilian peacekeepers in a variety of capacities. As in any democracy, it is crucial
that people such as journalists and human rights defenders are able to access
those mechanisms that are legally entitled to them under Sri Lankan law. Nonviolent
Peaceforce is proud that it has been able to offer civilians enough safety to do so.
The Colombo Response Team, one of five NP teams in Sri Lanka, is made up
of highly experienced NP peacekeepers who remain on call 24 hours a day. They
provide 20-30 accompaniments each month. NP is the only organization providing
such service in Sri Lanka.
Kingsley Ayettey
Ghana
Field Team Member
Colombo, Sri Lanka
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FTER SEVERAL YEARS AS A FAITHFUL DONOR TO NP, FORMER COLLEGE
Ann Frisch
(right, with a local translator
in Guatemala)
professor Ann Frisch became an Advocate Team Member (ATM)—and quickly
showed the depth of her commitment. “At my first Advocate Team meeting in San
Diego, I learned that NP had made a commitment for an emergency field team in
Guatemala. Less than a month after that meeting, I was trained and deployed as a
rapid responder to Guatemala.”
Ann provided protective accompaniment for Guatemalan human rights defenders for ten weeks in early 2007. Upon her return to the United States, Executive
Director Mel Duncan had another assignment for her. He asked Ann to accompany
him on two speaking tours in 2008, sharing her experience as a peacekeeper with
audiences in Illinois, Wisconsin, California and Washington.
Ann continues to serve NP as a member of the Advocate Team and as co-chair of
the Fundraising Board.
United States
Advocate Team Member
International Civilian Peacekeeper
Guatemala
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Ann Warner
United States
Donor/volunteer
HEN WORD REACHED NP’S COMMUNITY OF ­SUPPORTERS THAT THE
organization was in a time of particular financial stress, donors rallied to the cause.
One such supporter was Ann Warner, who is, in the words of Executive Director Mel
Duncan, a “tireless volunteer for NP.”
In addition to making an extra financial contribution in January 2008, Ann
passed word of the situation to her children. In honor of Ann’s 80th birthday in
April, each of her seven children made a five-year donor commitment to Nonviolent
Peaceforce.
“My contribution is hardly newsworthy,” she insists. “Many people rallied around
NP during its time of need.”
There are indeed other stories like Ann’s—stories of personal generosity and
sacrifice that have kept NP afloat during difficult times. And there are no sufficient
words of gratitude for the steadfast support that fuels NP’s efforts to build a better
world.
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ROFESSIONAL CIVILIAN PEACEKEEPERS CONTINUALLY REFINE THEIR SKILLS
and knowledge through formal training and daily field experience. And they don’t
work alone—in each field site, their Sri Lankan colleagues are an integral part of the
team, bringing their own knowledge, expertise and experience to NP’s work.
NP field officers Cassim Mahusoor and Earl Barthelot, both from the Batticaloa
district, are integral to the work of the team in Valaichchenai. One major accomplishment of the teams has been facilitating a new network called the Organizations
Council for Peace and Co-existence from a number of separate Muslim and Tamil
community groups. The network creates an early warning system to prevent and
decrease violence in the area. In some cases this was the first time in many years
that Muslims have been in Tamil areas or Tamils in Muslim areas.
Not satisfied with the good work they already do, Earl and Mahusoor sought
additional education to supplement their existing training and found a continuing
education course on Negotiation, Mediation, and Facilitation.
It was a daunting commitment, made more so by the fact that the course was in
Colombo, 160 miles from their field office on the opposite coast, and ran for six full
months.
Traveling through a country at war is never easy. The bus ride from Valaichchenai
passed through seven military checkpoints before arriving in Colombo nine hours
later.
Their efforts paid off. In January 2009, Mahusoor was promoted to serve as an
international civilian peacekeeper in Mindanao.
Cassim O Mahusoor
Sri Lanka
Field officer
Valaichchenai, Sri Lanka
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O MAKE UNARMED CIVILIAN PEACEKEEPING A PRACTICAL REALITY, NP
engages in the building of global awareness and global capacity in equal measure.
NP’s Alvaro Ramirez-Durini contributed to both objectives in 2008.
In March, Alvaro helped build awareness by presenting a paper titled “Nonviolence
and Multi-Dimensional Security” to the Civil Society Hemispheric Forum in preparation
for the General Assembly of the Organization of American States in Washington, DC.
Two months later, Alvaro turned his efforts toward the building of global capacity by conducting a peacekeeper training workshop, along with Theo Roncken of
NP’s International Governance Council, at the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica.
Included in the training was a hands-on introduction to the concept of Third Party
Nonviolent Intervention—the heart and soul of NP’s mission and strategy.
Alvaro Ramirez-Durini
Ecuador
Regional Coordinator
Latin America and the Caribbean
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Rolf Carriere
Switzerland
NP Senior Advisor
OLF CARRIERE HAS SEEN ­HUMAN SUFFERING, AND THE HUMAN ­
potential to heal that suffering, from many perspectives. In addition to serving as
liaison to the World Bank, Rolf directed UNICEF’s nutrition programs in India and
neighboring Bhutan and worked in Indonesia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
­Afghanistan, and Burma. He served as director of UNICEF’s program in Bangladesh and as the executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
(GAIN) in Geneva.
Now retired from UNICEF, Rolf has begun a new career representing NP at the
United Nations in Geneva and New York City. Among his contributions in 2008
was the facilitation of briefings on civilian unarmed peacekeeping at the Canadian Mission and at UNICEF headquarters in June.
Rolf is optimistic about the future of NP’s approach. “People are ready for
peaceful change, and they’re willing to dedicate their lives to create it,” he said.
“Civilian unarmed peacekeeping could be the way to recognize and help develop
the vital protection role global civil society may credibly, effectively, and legitimately play in human security. For the benefit of children and women in armed
conflict, for refugees, journalists, human rights defenders, peacefully protesting
monks, aid workers, or election campaigners – for all of us. Because ultimately,
none of us is secure until all of us are.”
The struggle between ­happiness and unhappiness is the story of ­ ­human
existence. The struggle between peace and war is the history of the
human race. The power that leads us to eternal victory amid these
struggles is the power of good within us.
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—Japanese philosopher Daisaku Ikeda
ONG-TIME PEACE ACTIVIST YUKIO AKI DEVOTES HIS CONSIDERABLE
­energies to a wide range of initiatives, including nonviolent training, peace edu-
Yukio Aki
Japan
International Governance Council
Board member, NP Japan
cation, the preservation of Japan’s “peace constitution,” working for a nuclearfree Pacific, and education and support for poor children in Cambodia.
A lecturer at Tokyo’s Seikei University, Yukio also sits on the International Governance Council of Nonviolent Peaceforce and is a board member of NP Japan.
When NP encountered financial difficulties that put elements of the Sri Lanka
project at risk, Yukio rallied NP Japan to raise over US$36,000 (€26,400), ensuring that the vital work of our flagship project continued without interruption.
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T
HE INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE COUNCIL (IGC) OF NP IS THE CRUCIAL
interface between the abstractions of mission and vision and the concrete work of
civilian nonviolent peacekeeping. It is the task and purpose of the IGC to take the
directions decided on in the 2007 General Assembly—and the Five-Year Strategic
Plan that grew out of that Assembly—and turn them into practical realities on the
ground.
Nowhere is this interface between ideals and actions more clearly evident than
in the Mission Fulfillment Committee of the IGC. Chaired by Simonetta Costanzo
Pittaluga, the committee worked with the Capacity Building department in 2008 to
facilitate recruitment and assessment of new peacekeepers.
The committee also assisted the Strategic Relations department in establishing
connections to contact groups in Eastern Europe, Israel/Palestine, northern Uganda
and Southern Sudan and recommended to IGC an exploration to Georgia and both
exploration and project development in Southern Sudan.
At the same time, Mission Fulfillment worked with Programme department to
keep existing projects on course—exploring an external evaluation of the Sri Lanka
project, even as the environment grows increasingly difficult, and building on
successes from the first year in the Philippines.
Every year helps to inform the next, Simonetta said, and to improve NP’s internal
functioning. “The prior analyses offered by Mission Fulfillment made more rapid
decisionmaking and less micromanagement possible from IGC. In 2009 we hope
that the experience and internal lessons learned will make for an ever-improving
system of governance for NP.”
Simonetta Costanzo Pittaluga
Spain
International Governance Council
Chair, Mission Fulfillment
Committee
[By 2012,] NP will have field projects in
several locations, including at least one with
at least 100 field staff in a high-conflict area
and one rapid response field project.
– from NP’s Five-Year Strategic Plan
Georgette Sarkela and William Hardesty • Helen Hardin • Dana R. Hare and Pauline Hare • Susan Hargis • Nancy Hargrave • Lee Haring • Charles Harker • Ruby Phillips and Rick Harlan • Donna
Harley • Linda Harlow • David Harper • William and Barbara Harris • Lauretta Harris • Howard Harris • Christina and George Hart • Helen and Bill Hartfiel • Edie Hartshorne • Lucy Hartwell • Larry
and Evelyn Harvil • Tim Haskamp • Tom Hastings • Margaret Haushalter • Romayne Hauth • Leo Timmons and Kate Havelin • Clove Haviva • Delite Hawk • Bruce Hawkins • Peter Chandler and
Rebecca Killen Hawthorne • Peg Hayes • Rick Meeker Hayman • Margaret Haynes • Jean Haynes • Gerald Haynes • Gay Hayward • Barbara Hazard • Kathy Hazen • Rick Hazlett • William Hazlett
and Celeste Perez Hazlett • James and Carole Head • John Heagle • Mark and Jane Heald • Clarice Hearne • Jeff and Lucy Heegaard • Patricia Helin • Terry Heller • Carol J. Heller • Eliot Helman
• Joy Helmer • Helene Hembreiker • Monica and T. Stephen Henderson • Kathleen and Bill Henderson • Neil Hendricks • Allen Henkins • Jerod Peterson and Anne Henry • James R. and Lillian B.
Herren • Jan Herzog • Lawrence and Suzanne Hess • Diane Hetrick • Kerry Heubeck • Wendy Wiegmann and Cathy Heying • Elaine Hickman • Roger Hildreth • Martha Hildt • David and Marja
Hilfiker • Lynn Marie Hill • Barb Hill • Nell Hillsley and Van Lawrence • Elizabeth and Gary Hilsenrad • Kenneth Helfant and Nancy Hilyard • Maren Hinderlie • Mary Hirchert • Adrienne Hirt • Peggy
Hitchcock • Donald Hobson • James and Nanette Hockin • Louise Hodgma Huff • Kathryn Stevens and John Hoffman • Suzanne Hoffman • Scott Hoffman • Matthew Hoffman • James Hoffman
• Donna Hoffman • Barbara Hoffman • Judith and Alan Hoffman • Dr. Robert Hofland • Sherrill Hogen • Clair and Virginia Hoifjeld • Martha Holden • Stuart Holland • Georgiana Holland • Irving
Hollingshead • Michael and Mary Holm • Megan Holm • Howard and Cheron Holman • Donald Holt • Jeanie and Dennis Holt • Thomas Hooley Fund for Social Justice of The Saint Paul Foundation
• James Hornsby • Michael Horowitz • Lucy Horwitz • Sheila Hougen • Jim and Miriam Hougen • Emmaus House • George and Jean Houser • Kate Houston • Madelyn MacKay and James Howard
• Juliana Howard • Earl Howard • Margaret Howe • Roxanne Howe-Murphy • Jane Hoyt • Richard and Lisa Hubacek • Theresa Flynn and Rob Hubbard • Rachel Hudak • Barbara Hudgins • Francis
and Evelyn Hudson • Marjorie Huebner • Geoff Huggins • Barbara Hume • Virginia Humphrey • Paul Humphrey • John Humphries • Patricia Hunt • Leslie Hunt • George Hunt • Gail Antonson and
Steve Hunter • Rebecca Hunter • Lois Husbands • Harold and Jean Husby • Esther Huston • Catherine Huston • Barbara and Gregory Huwe • Jeanne and John Hynes • Judith Hysell
Kathy Sundberg and Al Ickler • Tricia Idrobo • Steve Iliff • Susan Immel • Bill and Margaret Irish • Deane and Sandy Irving • Caroline and Walter Isard • Zahra Ismail • Jean Ito • Bonnie Iverson •
Jean Jachman • Valorie Jackson • Richard Jacobi • David and Alberta Jacobs • Stephen and Marion Jacobsen • Janet and Stanley Jacobson • Rabbi Burt Jacobson • Evelyn Jaffe • Timothy James
• Frank and Barbara Janisch • Donna Jansen • Gwen Jaspers • Chris Jaszewski • Jill Jefferies • Susu Jeffrey • Lillian Jeffrey • Richard and Mary Jane Jennison • Daniel Jensen • Christopher Jocius
W
Agnieszka Komoch
HEN NP ENTERED A PERIOD OF FINANCIAL CRISIS IN EARLY 2008,
i­nternational fundraising director ­Agnieszka Komoch redoubled her efforts to
increase reliable institutional funding. Her work resulted in assured funding from
the German Development Ministry, the German, Belgian and French Foreign Ministries, and the governments of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
2008 also saw the fruits of negotiations between the European Commission
and NP offices in Brussels and the Philippines, resulting in the first major grant
for the Philippines program.
“The Belgian Foreign Ministry became the biggest single donor to NP with its
support to both field sites, followed by Germany,” said Agnieszka. She was quick
to distribute credit for the results. “It was a group effort from the start. Member
Organizations helped make it possible by making contacts with donor institutions
and arranging visits to donors’ headquarters by NP field staff with first-hand experience in unarmed civilian peacekeeping.”
Poland
International Fundraising Director
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Natalie Brenner
United States
USA Development Coordinator
USA Finance Manager
STAFF MEMBER IN A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION RARELY HAS THE
luxury of a narrow, well-defined set of responsibilities. Everyone wears many hats
and assumes an ever-changing roster of duties requiring diverse talents and the
constant renewal of skills.
Natalie Brenner exemplifies this model in the Minneapolis office. After graduating from Augsburg College in 2004 with a degree in International Relations and
Peace and Global Studies, Natalie joined NP and has since worked in finance and
fundraising as well as with local chapter development. A typical day in 2008 found
her training interns, preparing fundraising mailers, managing cash flow and fund
balance records, and overseeing communications with thousands of individual
donors.
“Natalie is a critical part of NP, both in the U.S. and worldwide,” said Minneapolis Operations Manager Tamra Falk. “In addition to getting her tasks done, she
is always working to improve our systems.”
Thea Johansen • Joan Hershbell and Gary Johnson • Kathleen Hollander and Rodney Johnson • Marcia E. Taormina and Charles Johnson • William Johnson • Timothy Johnson • Sharon and Eugene
Johnson • Mary Johnson • Margel and Douglas Johnson • Lynn Johnson • Katharine Johnson • Julie Johnson • Joy and Robert Johnson • Jean Elizabeth Johnson • Janet and Frank Johnson • Ellen
and Merle Johnson • Daniel and Maria Johnson • Colleen Johnson • Ava Dale Johnson • Alice Johnson • Carol and Merle Johnson-Miller • Tom N. Jones • Taryn Jones • Molly Jones • Michael and
Diane Jones • Joan G. Jones • Hugh and Marilyn Jones • Kathy A. Jones • Russell and Mary Jorgensen • Leigh Jewell and James Joyce • Gloria Joyce and Ed Flowers • Terry Judd • Steve Juniper •
Patti Jurkovich
Dana Kadison • Winston Kaehler • Gerald Kahlert • Phyllis Kahn • Helene Kahn • Mark Kaiser • Edwin Kampmann • Sudarshan Kapoor, Ph.D. • Virginia Karel • Warren Howe and Janet Karon •
Marian and Fred Karpoff • Rita And Robert Kasper • Martha Katz • Kathryn Bonfiglio and Barry Kaye • Margaret Mary Keating • Alexandra Kedrock • Sr. Patricia Keefe • Norm Keegel • Kimberly
and Steve Keen • Peg Keenan • Josephine and Francis Keenan • Walter and June Keener Wink • Chris and Margaret Keij • Nancy Kelly • Marla Kennedy • Kathleen Kennedy • Carole and Clarence
Kent • Janet Keny • Debby Kern • Dan Kern • Hari Aatma Ksur Khalsa • Rick Kidd • Mary Faith Kidder • Julie Kidson • Judi Kiester • Jeffery and Kristine Kiko-Cozy • Pamela Kildahl • Young Kim
Hong • David Kimball • Rita Kimber • David Kimble • Margo King • Kenneth King • Gary King • Judith King • Leslie David Grossberg and Judith Kingsbury • Terry Kinzel and Sue Kingsley • Bryan
Kingsriter and Elaine Allen • Katharine Kinkade • Janet and Gus Kious • John T. and Phyllis M. Kirkwood • Esther Kisamore • Theodore and Violet Klaseen • Adeline Schultz and James Klein •
Maria Pastoor and John Klein • Wallace Klein • Maria Klein • Mark and Cynthia Kleinle • Ruth and Jeff Klepfer • Carl Kline • George Klinger • Kris Klohe • Judy Occhetti-Klohr and Leo Klohr • Tracy
Klug • Marvin Klug • Gerianne Klug • Robert and Kathleen Klukas • Steven and Lynnea Kluz • Denise Knapp • Charles and Susan Knight • Lois Knipp • Howard Vogel and Rebecca Knittle • Gina
and Steven Knochenmus • John Knoff and Eva Sullivan-Knoff • Faye Knowles • Patricia Knutson • Mona Knutson • Kimball Knutson • Paula Koepke • George and Cynthia Kokis • Kathleen Kolias
• Sarah and Robert Kolodny • Christine Kopish • Gregory and Michal Kopnick • Kopp Family Foundation • Roy Korn • David and Fran Korten • Janet Kortuem • Karen Kosel Lundgren • Luanne
Koskinen • Kathryn Kram • Tanya Sue Kramer • Marilyn Kramer • Loren Kramer • Joyce Kramer • Dave Kraskow • Alfred and Susan Krass • Thomas Krause • Peter Krause • Merle and Phyllis
Krause • Marshall Krause • Barbara Pilling and Dan Kreider • Lawrence Krips • Amelia and Richard Kroeger • Janet Krofta • Anthony Kroll • Kurt Krueger • Michaele Kubacz • James and Mary
Kubiak • Rob and Bobbie Kuchta • Thomas Tesch and Carol Kuechler • Rhonda Kuehl • Andrea Kuenning • Sara Kuether • Nayantara Kumar • Frederick B. Kunz • Dorothy Raetz Kunze
O
VER 3,000 GUATEMALAN WOMEN HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN
the past decade, their bodies often showing signs of torture and mutilation.
Fewer than 2 percent of these crimes result in conviction. Much of the work
of uncovering the truth is left to people like Guatemalan journalist and human
rights defender Iduvina Hernandez. As director of the human rights watchdog
organization Seguridad en Democracia, Iduvina works to challenge impunity and
to combat violence, especially against women and children. As a result of her
efforts to hold the Guatemalan authorities and security forces to account, she
often receives threats and intimidation.
NP provided protective accompaniment for Guatemalan human rights
defenders during the tense period before, during, and immediately after the 2007
national elections in Guatemala.
“Accompaniment for human rights defenders is very valuable because it
is tangible proof that one is not alone,” said Iduvina. “This allows defenders
to spend less time worrying about an attack. It’s not that the presence of
accompaniment is an absolute guarantee that attacks won’t occur, but it allows
for a fuller focus on the work itself and this represents a fundamental support.”
Her words were echoed by Claudia Samayoa, coordinator of Unit for the
Defense of Human Rights Defenders of Guatemala (UDEFEGUA) and former IGC
member. “For UDEFEGUA and me, NP’s presence meant a relief and a safe haven
for our work. During the time they were here, we could depend on them to provide
a vigilant eye and a protective presence so we could continue our own work
protecting other human rights defenders. By the time NP left in February 2008,
our level of risk had diminished to ‘normal’ levels.”
Iduvina Hernandez
Guatemala
Human rights defender
“Accompaniment for human rights
defenders is very valuable because it is
tangible proof that one is not alone.”
Julie Gottesleben and Donna Kurimay • Jewel and Jack Kurshoff • Evan Lippincott and Krista Kurth • K. Narayan Kutty • Lesley M. and Thomas C. Kuykendall • Jay Kvale • Jeanne and Michael
Kyle
Larry Labonte • Mark and Dale Lacroix • Corinn Lafave-Denay • S. Colet Lahoz • George Lakey • Ann Lakhdhir • Bob Lamb • Fr. Louis Lamb • David Lambert • Helen Lamm • Beatriz Cabrera and
Michael Lander • Janell Landis • Sr. Lorraine Landkammer • Kathie Lane • Elizaberth Lane • Kim Lapakko • Tim Larason • Mac and Phyllis Larsen • Ruth Ann and Alan Larson • Ray and Connie
Larson • Julie Larson • Martha Lasley • Josh Tilsen and Faith Latimer • Mary Jane LaVigne • Deborah Lavoie • David and Diane LaVoy • Dr. Rosa Thomas and Rev. Matthew Lawrence • Billie Lawton
• Paul Giguere and Pamela Layton • Lynn Lazar • Arlene Leaf • Mary Elizabeth Leary • Melvin Leasure • Andrea LeBlanc • Philip Lefcourt • Dawn Lehman • Barbara Leighton • Katherine and Pat
Leighton • Andrea Kuenning and Daniel Leisen • Marcia Leister • Adele Lennig • Abel and Lydia Leon • David and Leslie Leonard • Betsy Leondar-Wright • Robert Levering • Janet Schwarta and
Arthur and Janet Levine • Sharon Levine • George K. and Ann Cotton Levinger • Rachel Levy-Bencheton • Michael Lewis • Barbara Lewis • Ann Lewis • David Lewit • Judith Libertus • Charles and
Nancy Liddy • Yehudit Lieberman • Charlie Stephens and Rebecca Liebman • John Liljenstolpe • Perrin and David Lilly • Ilona Lind • Denise Lindblom • Bob and Toni Lippert • Paul and Mari Litsky
• Emerson Littlefield • David Miller and Leslie Livingston • Frances Lloyd • Robin Lloyd • Marlene Locascio • Patrick Lochwood • Maryel Locke • Louise Lockwood-Zorowski • Judy Loewen • Dale
Hodges and David Logan • Yvonne Logan • Lucinda Lohr • Nancy Long • Gabriel Lopez-Betanzos • Janet Lord • Nancy Lorence • Julian Loscalzo • Alan Lott • Jeanne and George Lound Schaller
• Nancy Lovejoy • Lovrien Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund • Dorothy Lower • David Lowman • Jennifer Lucca • Nancy Lukens • Robert and Elizabeth Lukens • Kim Lund • Kristofer and
Kristen Lund • Lori Lundquist • Richard and Carmel Lunt • William Lurton • Charles Lutz • Norton Lyman • Nancy L. Lynch • Jim Lynch • Patricia and Stephen Lynott
Brenda Macaluso • Kathleen Macferran • Mickey MacIntyre • Maria MacIver • Jane and Charles Mack • Donald and Nancy Maclay • Helen Madden • Rita Foster and Char Madigan • Rose and
Ralph Madsen • Martha Madsen • Gregory and Beth Madsen • William and Sarah Madsen Hardy • Bernice Maertz • Raymond and Gloria Magee • John Magruder • Muthoni Magua • Frances
Magurno • Sheldon and Beverly Mains • Elizabeth Malcolm • Joseph Malina • John Malkin • Darrell Schmidt and Julie Mall • Theresa Maly • Paul and Mary Mangelsdorf • Pamela Twiss and David
Mann • Charles Mantey • Lorna Maren • Margaret Markey • Walter and Suzanne Marks • Yvonne Marlier • Ed Marroni • Dolly Marshall • Barbara Marshall • Sarah Martin • Bill and Bea Martin
Over time,
the faces of
Nonviolent Peaceforce
slowly change.
Peacekeepers and staff who entered years before as newcomers to
the cause of unarmed civilian peacekeeping might return to their
work as teachers and engineers, artists and activists, writers and
medics, accountants and community organizers. Others find their
paths profoundly altered by their experience in the field and seek
out new careers in the service of peace. Still others find a long-term
professional home in NP, using their knowledge and experience to
help guide the organization toward ever-greater effectiveness and an
expanded global presence.
All those who pass through this unique organization are informed
and enriched by their time of service. When peacekeeper King Ayettey
recently left NP after nearly four years at work in Sri Lanka, he offered
these thoughts to his colleagues and friends:
“Nothing brings more happiness in
life than to serve a cause greater than
yourself. Working with NP Sri Lanka has
helped me gain focus of what I wanted
to do with my life. For a long time, I
wanted to join a peace team to do more
active things with my life—to better
the world. My work with NP exposed
me to doing those things. My heart is
now bigger. There’s been an increase
in my playfulness, generosity and
compassion. I want to thank all of you
for our fruitful work together and urge
you on, as NP goes through the twists,
turns and bumps on the road. In recent
months I have felt a certain spring in
the step of this organization. Now it is
confident and secure in its resources. I
look forward to watching the next stage
of NP’s growth and success!”
Anna Martin • Alden Martin • Clare J. and Thomas Verzino Martina • Sue Ann Martinson • Diane Hetrick and Denis Martynowych • John Marvel • Mary Kay Marwaha • Terry Marx • Jean Maryborn
• Maren Haidi Masley • Katrina Mason • Richard Paul Taylor and Jeanne Massey • Ken and Carol Masters • Laura Matanah • William and Judy Matchett • Stephen Matchett • Susan Mathews •
Virgil Mathiowetz • Andrew and Ellen Matragrano • Terry Lee Maul • Tanya Maurer • Sherri Maurin • JoAnn Maus • Linda and Leonard Maxwell • Kevin May • Elaine and Joe Mayer • Dr. Catherine
Mayer • Dominique Mazeaud • Marcie Mc Intire • Mary Jo McArthur • Charlotte Chapman and Dwight McCall • Ellen McCambley • Laurie McCann • J. Howard McCarthy • Don McClain • Harriet
McCleary • Richard McClurg • Steven McComas • K. McCoy • Carolyn McCoy • Margaret McCoy • R. and K. McCreedy • Gregory and Nancy McDaniels • Barbara McDermid • Terryl McDonald
• Nicholas G. and Pamela J. McDonald • Jane McDonald • James McEachran • Jean McElhaney • Elizabeth McElhill • Sarah McElroy • Colleen and Douglas McGilp • Dr. Tom and Joy McGinnis •
Teresa J. McGlynn • Loren McGrail • Mary Ann Mcguire • Tom and Susan McGuire • Florence and Jack McHugh • Robert McKee • Betty McKenzie • Brigid McDonough and Reid McLean • Anne
McLean • Randall and Brenda McLeod • Gwen and Andy McMahon • Dennis McMahon • Betsy Fairbanks and Phil McManus • Alice McMechen • Blair McMillen • Lee McNair • Kristi McNamara
• David and Julie Mcnaughton • Tim McNeil • Daniel McNeil • Helen McNulty • Lane Ayres and Marion McNurlen • Jack and Rose Marie Mcquaid • Teresa McWilliams • Creative Memories and
Rosemary Meade • Marie and Joseph Medvec • Larisa Medvec • Jeff Burchem and Gretchen Mehmel • Elizabeth Meiklejohn • Julie and Ronald Meixsell • Sherry Melchiorre • Margaret and Martin
Melkonian • Karl Meller • Emma Mellon • Susan and Roger Melrose • Kathleen Menard • Jim Mendell and Peg Kamens • Abel and Sherry Mendoza • James and Joann Mentele • Guy and Kathryn
Mercer • L. T. and Marie Merrigan • Susan and Sam Merrill • Mary Mersereau-Kempf • Elizabeth F. Mertic • Sylvia Metzler • Robert Meurer • Dana Murdoch and Roger Meyer • Daniel and Ilse
Meyer • Carolyn, Joseph and Erick Meyer • Joseph Michael • Sherri and Mark Michalovic • Barry L. Wasserman, FAIA and Judy Michalowski • Betty and Peter Michelozzi • Cindy Mickey • Martin
Gross and Claudia Miller • Steve O’Neil and Angela Miller • Sylvia Miller • Sam and Betty Miller • Kay Miller • John Miller • Elizabeth Miller • Diane Miller • Carol Miller • Judith Miller • Franklin
Miller Jr. • Dick Roberts and Jane E Milliken • Gerrish Milliken • Suzanne Mills • Judith Milner • Patrick and Gertrude Mingo • Kathleen Mirante • Barbara Mishler • John Mitchell • Rosemary
Mitlyng • Genevieve and James Moe • Mark and Pamela Moeller • Lee Moisant • Danielle Molliver • George and Diana Monaghan • Donna Moniz • Beverly Woodward and Paul Monsky • Jean
Mont-Eton • Joanne Montie • Edward L. Mooney • Timothy Moore • Patricia Moore • Jennifer Moore • Clive Moore • Anne and Tom Moore • Michael Moran • Joachim Oberst and Jill Morford •
John Braxton and Marcia Morgan • Bruce Morgan • Laurence and Mary Mork • Luis Morones • Richard and Linda Morris • Mary Morris • Mark Morrison • Denis and Renee Morrison • James and
Molly Morrissey • Glenn Harvey and Kathy Morter • Joe Morton • Margaret Morton • Daniel Moses • John Moss • Roman Motyka • Mary Moulton • Barbara Moulton • Sabre Mrkva
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accomplishments
Sri Lanka
As ceasefire collapsed, NP “an extreme value”
T
he beginning of 2008 saw the
end of the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) signed by the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). Although
the ceasefire period was by no means
violence-free, the official abrogation
signalled a return to conventional war
in the North and the Northeast of the
island. The Sri Lankan army had made
slow but steady inroads into LTTE-held
territory in the North in 2008, resulting in a growing number of internally
displaced people (IDPs). Although formal military operations were mainly
limited to the North, violence in the
rest of the country continued, including LTTE attacks in Colombo and the
South and inter-community violence
and armed group activity in the East.
As always, the primary concern of NP
has been the safety of civilians in all
parts of the island.
NP teams continued to provide
international presence, monitoring,
and accompaniment to individuals
and communities in the East and in
the Jaffna peninsula, both locations
where NP has long had a presence, as
well as in Colombo. This ongoing work
is rooted in the areas where NP field
teams work and is deeply appreciated
by our local and national partners. As
one wrote to us: “NP’s presence has
an extreme value in the current con-
text which cannot be overestimated.”
Conditions in Jaffna were uncertain
for much of the year because of the
escalating war just south of the peninsula, which resulted in an increase
in displaced persons moving into the
Jaffna area. The Jaffna team continued its work of monitoring the situation
and offering international presence
where needed—for example, making
visits to the University when incidents
of violence occur, or when people feel
threatened. They also continued their
work with networks of human rights
defenders in Jaffna, and to link with
similar networks in Colombo.
The Eastern Province, under government control since 2006, continued to
see periodic outbreaks in violence between the Tamil and Muslim communities, as well as violence, killings and
abductions from various armed groups.
NP teams in
Trincomalee,
Valaichche nai and Batticaloa continued working
with local civil
society groups
to
support
­human rights
and cross-ethnic collaborations, provide
2008
accompaniments, investigate threats
against civilians, facilitate a strong
network of Tamil and Muslim community-based organizations, and make
regular visits to IDP camps or resettlement areas. Security and tension surrounding the April elections dominated the work of the field teams for that
part of the year.
Violence between Tamil and Muslim
communities threatened to erupt after
the targeted killing of a local Tamil political leader and retaliatory killing of
three Muslim civilians. Over several
days, violence escalated in the south
of the Batticaloa district. Hundreds of
families in Tamil-Muslim border areas
were forced to temporarily relocate to
churches and other community centers for fear of attacks. The NP teams
in Batticaloa and Valaichchenai were
instrumental in stalling the violence,
bringing together leaders from the
Tamil and Muslim communities, as
well as a local bishop, who served as
a trusted intermediary. Due in part to
Joseph Muldoon • Karen Muller • Barbara Mulligan • Judith Mullins • Donna Mumma • Fredi Munger • Toni Murphy • Donna and Tom Murphy • Nora Elizabeth Murphy • Patricia Ann Murphy •
Roxanne Howe Murphy • Joan Murray • Dick Musser • Regina Musurlian
Harvey Nadler • Manizheh Nafari • Michael Nagler • Victoria Danzig and Alan Nahum • Mira Nakashima • Chris Namaste Curran • Sayrah Namste • Jean Naples • Mary Narayan • A.T. Paulek and
Sue Nash • Ray Nashold • Ardella Nathanael • Clark Natwick • Ellen Naylor • Peggy Neal • Patricia Needham • Nancy Neiman-Hoffman • Jack and Kathleen Neis • Robert Nelson • Paul Nelson
• Marge Nelson • Kathryn Nelson • George and Theresa Nelson • Delores Nelson • Dave Nelson • Rachel Cohen and Richard Nemeth • Danna Neste • Kenley Neufeld • Sherman Neusom • Sally
Newberger • J. and Mary B. Newcomb • Cecelia Newton • Jean Nicholas • Steve and Moira Nichols • Jean Nicholson • James Stimmell and Pat Nicholson • Cynthia Hunter and Samuel Nickels •
Amy Kietzman and David Nicklin • Katherine Nicklin • Judy Nicol • Donna Nicotera • Mark Niehaus • Marg Roberts and Neil and Marian Nielsen • Janet Nordstrom • Hathaway Norman • David
and Kathleen Norrbom • Vincent Notaro • Barbara Novelli
Cynthia Kissee and Charles Obert • Linda O’Brien • James and Sharon O’Brien • Bruce O’Brien • Tom O’Connell • Thomas O’Connell • Meaveen O’Connor • Mary Fran O’Connor • Kathleen O’Connor
• Joan O’Connor • Francis and Lenora O’Donnell • Marie Roena Oesting • William and Judith O’Fallon • Geraldine O’Farrell • Ellie Ogden • John D. and Cynthia O’Halloran • Ruth O’Hara • Rolland
and Fay O’Hare • Herta S. Okonkwo • Larry Olds • David and Barbara Oliver • Kraig and Mindy Olmstead • Anthony and Isabel Olmsted • Rebecca Brackett and Fred Olson • Bettye Olson • Mary
Ellen Olson • Holly Olson • Lisbeth Olton • Jane McDonald and Colleen O’Malley • Diane Ondrey • Danilo and Dulia O’Neill • Carol K. O’Neill • Mellissa and Christopher Onyango-Robshaw • David
Harris and David Ormsby • Alison Orr-Andrawes and Fikry Andrawes • Joan and Edward Orrock • Suzanne Osborne • Warren and Marsha Oskey • Barbara O’Steen • Martha Osterberg • Don and
Florence Ostrom • Frank and Sarah Ostrowski • Danielle Oterry • Dillwyn and Sara Otis • The Constance S. Otis Fund of The St. Paul Foundation • Chuck and Wendy Ott • Christopher Ott • Eugene
and Mary Lou Mulcahey Ott • Dakota Otto • Susan Esther Ouray • Melody Oursler • David Starr and Dinah Oye
David Pack • Connie Packard • Ronald Pagnucco • Ruth Paine • Joseph and Mary Palen • Timothy Palk-Nicely • Meg Palley • Diane Donato and Christopher and Diane Palmer
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NP’s involvement, the violence from
the south of the district did not spread
to the north, as had been anticipated.
In addition to supporting the work of
the field teams, the Colombo Response
Team (CRT) in 2008 remained active accompanying human rights defenders and
others who needed international pres-
ence in order to continue their own work.
CRT works both with the field sites and
with partners in Colombo to facilitate
safe access to a variety of structures, including medical, legal and governmental
institutions.
In all districts where we work, NPSL
facilitates and supports community net-
works to sustain peace and engage in
nonviolent problem-solving at the grassroots level. Networks of human rights
defenders in Jaffna, peace committees
in Trincomalee, and community organizations in Batticaloa have all benefited from
NP’s slow but steady work of confidencebuilding and nonviolent engagement.
Mindanao
Building confidence and hope amid challenges
T
he year began with a mix of hope
and frustration as exploratory talks
between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that had
stalled in December were rescheduled for
January, only to be cancelled again.
The Malaysian government, which had
brokered the talks, and the Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team warned of withdrawing if an agreement was not reached by
the end of 2008.
NP has created a new precedent in Mindanao as the first international group living
and working within communities in the middle of the conflict area. This provided a distinct advantage when in February, the killing
of eight Sulu Island villagers by the Armed
Forces of the Philippines rocked the political and security structures of Mindanao. NP
was the first international team to go inside
the site of the incident, meeting the victims,
providing conscious presence, documenting
the incident and controlling rumors.
NP continued its work on an Early Warning and Early Response System, enlisting
the help of monitors within multiple barangays to recognize and report local conflict
in its earliest stages, an effort endorsed
by both sides in the conflict. The team also
contributed significant time and effort to
the monitoring, accompaniment, and sense
of security of Internally Displaced Persons
(IDPs) affected by the conflict.
In the interest of building long-term conflict resolution structures, NP has encouraged the use of its field offices as neutral
places for trainings and dialogues by local
communities and by organizations both local and international.
Country director Atif Hameed meets
with the mayor of Datu Saudi
The year ended as it had begun, with
a mix of hope and frustration. In October,
the Malaysian contingent made good on its
threat to leave, and an increase in violent
clashes ensued. NP Philippines continues
to work with local groups to minimize the
violence and to protect civilians from its
consequences.
Clarkson and Andrea Palmer • Rosemary Grebin Palms • Sharat Parekh • Raymond and Deborah Park • Anne Park • Brian Parker • Anne and Paul Parker • Patricia Parkman • Thomas Parlin •
Nancy Parlin • Richard Parnell • Robert and Carol Passmore • Kiran Patel • Erach and Fatima Patel • J. Ross and Nancy Pati Ojha • Ruth Harris and Pat Patterson • Mary and Mickey Patterson •
Rodney and Sarah Paul • Robert and Elizabeth Paul • Helen Paul • Robert Paulson • Marina Paviak • Marina Pavluk • Traudi Pawlowski • Trinity Peacock-Broyles • Kip Leitner and Patricia Pearce
• Richard Pearce • Mardi and John Pearson • Linda Peck • Paul Peckham • Diane Peel • Jane Peers • John and Carolyn Pegg • Jonnie Pekelny • Michael Peller • Donald Pelz • Steve Pemberton
• Dan Pennie • James Pennino • Diana Pepper • Bob and Laura Pepper • Marilyn Peppin • Angelo and Mary Percich • Jerome Perkins • Robert Marshall and Elizabeth Pernotto • Mary Anne
Perrone • Alisa Bieber and Sam Perry • Carol Perry • Lucy and Carlo Perry • James and Donna Peter • Ruth K. and John Milton Peters • Janice Kirkwood and Philip Peterson • Robert Peterson
• Marlene Peterson • Joan Peterson • Jane Peterson • Clem Pew Charitable Trusts • Katrina Pflaumer • Philadelphia Area and Bucks County Chapters • Stephen and Marybeth Phillip • Ann and
Felix Phillips • Jacob Picheny • Mary Pickard • Carl Pietrantuono • John Pikala • Marc Pilisuk • Larry and Maureen Pillepich • Charles Pillsbury and Rev. Allie Perry • Nancy and Jerome Pine •
Joyce and Donald Piper • Dominique Pisciotta • Martha Pitts • Audrey Pitts • Myfanwy Plank • Mary Plant • Harriet Platt • Debra Pleasants • Richard and Janet Polanski • Jody and Steven Poling
• Shirley Poliquin • Sally Polk • Marjorie Pollock • Judy Popham • Richard M Pordes • Laura Porter • Polly Post • James and Sharon Postance • Grace Potts • Maureen Poulas • Theodore and
Mary Pouliot • Suzanne Powell • Marcia and Conor Power • Elizabeth M. Powers • June Prange • Nanette Pratini • Jim Prentice • Craig Shaw and Carolyn Prentiss • Richard Pressman • Wendy
Pressoir • Dorothea Proctor • Helen Prosser • Christina Purdy
Matt Entenza and Lois Quam • Carol Quest • Randolph and Marietta Quinby • Joseph Quinn • Denise Rachel • Kathryn Radinovsky • B.W. Radtke • Agnes Raeven • Jeremy Raff • Nayana
Ramakrishnan • Tim Ramer and Martha Johnson • Tina Wade and Jim Ramnaraine • Marjorie Ramphal • Charlotte and Mary Randall • Benton Randolph • Eric Alan Swehla and Janet Range •
Helen Rank Huntley • George Rawitscher • Ken and Anne Rawson • James Ray and Suzanne Anzellotti-Ray • Mark Rebello • Terrie Arfi and J. G. Reddan • Walter and Sharon Reece • James Hart
and Maureen Reed • Naomi Reed and Bob and Naomi Reed • Suzanne Reedy • Elinor Rees • Jeffrey and Kelly Reeser • Paul and K. Sander Rehm • Dorothy Reichardt • Regina Reilly • Leslie and
Wilhelm Reindl • Joan and Patrick Reinstein • Pat and Debby Reisinger • Karl Remsen • Kathleen Remund • Sven Midelfort and Petra Ressler • John and Maureen Reuwer • Valentina Reyes •
Katherine Rhoda • Elspeth Rhodin • Alexandra Lape and Jeffrey Rholl • Helen Rice Walker • Judith and Walter Rich • Rev. Don Richards • Luke Rickert • Jean and Thomas Riddering
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accomplishments
2008
Guatemala
Rapid response project concludes after 400 protective accompaniments
F
rom 1960 to 1996, the Republic
of Guatemala endured the longest
civil war in Latin American history.
Over 200,000 people lost their lives.
More than a decade later, a culture of
violence, intimidation, and official corruption still plagues the country. Police
officers have been implicated in criminal
activity such as rape, murder, and kidnapping, including the assassination of
three Salvadoran diplomats in February
2007.
During the same period, attacks on
Guatemalan human rights defenders
became more frequent. The offices of
NP partner Unit for Protection of Human
Rights Defenders of the National Movement of Human Rights of Guatemala (La
Unidad) were raided and a hangman’s
noose left on the doorknob. An increase
in violence was expected as a national
election was approaching in Fall 2007.
La Unidad requested the deployment of
an NP team to help protect human rights
defenders during this vulnerable time.
In April 2007, three peacekeepers vided, was subject to one threat and
and a team coordinator were deployed to two acts of intimidation but no physical
Guatemala—the first rapid deployment in attacks. Internally displaced persons
the organization’s history—to provide pro- from Los Cimientos also returned to their
tective accompaniment to human rights homes with NP accompaniment.
defenders.
An exit evaluation concluded that
On January 14, 2008, the administra- the project had achieved its objective
tion of President Álvaro Colom took of- to widen the space for the human rights
fice, ending the defined period of great- activists by increasing their perception of
est threat. Seventeen days later, the NP security, and that NP was able to send a
project officially closed. Over 400 indi- qualified team quickly and to manage it
viduals had been accompanied in ten to a successful conclusion.
months. Seven volunteers and one coordinator had served on the NPG teams:
Ann Frisch, Penn Garvin, Begoña Bouza,
Vittorio Ghibaudo, Margarita
Pareja-Stoyell, Thiago Wolfer, NP peacekeepers accompany human rights
Vilarmina Ponce, and Betsy defenders during street festival
Crites, coordinator.
The personnel of La Unidad
received no direct threats or
harassment during the period
of the project. El Consorcio, an
allied organization for which
accompaniment was also pro-
NP peacekeeper
Margarita Pareja-Stoyell
accompanies human
rights workers in the
streets of Guatemala City
Joyce Riedesel • Rosalie Riegle • La Mer Riehle • Toby Riley • Esther Riley • Annie Riley • Lisa Ringer • Lora Rinker • Mary Lou Ritter • Alice Ritter • Michael and Genevieve Ritzman • Thomas
Roach • Mary Roads • Melissa Robbins • Mary Robbins • Ritchie and Mary A. Robenson • Brian Watson and Elizabeth Roberts • Stuart Webb and Martha Roberts • Patricia Roberts • Marileta
Robinson • Linda Robinson • Brian and Barbara Carroll Robinson • Jonathan Robison • Leah Robshaw • Terry Rockefeller • Margaret Rockwell • Phyllis Roden • Evelyn Roehl • David Maglott
and Charlotte Rogers • Peter Rogers • Katherine Rogers • Jodi Rogness • Clare Ronzani • Eric Roost and Anna Lyons Roost • Herb and Pat Rorke • Tom & Karen Rose • Priscilla Anne Rose •
Carla Rosenlicht-Zingarelli • Miceal Ross • John Ross • Gerald and Concetta Ross • Margaret Rozycki • Stephen and Sandra Rufer • Rosemary Ruffenach • Mary Ellen Rugg • Phil Runkel • Diane
Ruppert • Virginia and William Rusinak• Eric Roberts and Lauren Rusk • Sarah Ryan • John and Katherine Ryan • Connie and Bruce Ryan • Christine and William Ryan • Jennifer Rycenga • Carole
and Roger Rydberg • Terrance Rynne
Eric and Maryann Sabelman • Bert Sacks • Richard and Barbara Sadler • Veronika and Helena Safarova • Irene Saikevych • Martin and Petra Salgado • Lee Salisbury • Clara and George Salloom
• Charles & Louise Saltzman • David Salvatore • Abdi Sami • William Samuel • Eileen Sana • Patricia Sanbakken • Hugh and Barbara Sanborn • John H. Sandbo • Karin Sandvik • Felicia Santini •
Janis Sarles • Sherri Sarratore • Kimberly Satterfield • Sally and David Sawyer • Anne Scarff • Sara Scattergood • Michael Schaeffer • David Weissbrodt and Patricia Schaffer • Gertrude Scheible
• Diane Schevene • Carol Schilling • Erich Franz Schimps • Thomas K. Trigg IV and Mary Schipper • Marty Schirber • Jackie Schirn • Kay Sloan and David Schloss • Karl Schmiedeskamp • Lisa
Schmitt • James Schmitt • Marguerite Schmitz • Sister Gladys Schmitz • Nathan Schneider • Lorry Schneider • Franz and Mary Schneider • Lars and Ruthe Schoder-Ehri • Beatrice Scholz •
Gregory Bernstein and Robin Schow • Barbara Schroder • Jon and Dana Schroeder • Jason and Taryn Schroeder • Helen and Bob Schroeder • Francis Schuele • Carol Schuler • Rosanne Schulz •
Carolyn Schurr • Susan Helper and Randy Schutt • Gwendolyn Schwabe • Sharon Schwarz • Robert and Margaret Schwob • Barbara Scott • Ann H. and William T. Scott • John Scradina • Richard
Seaman • Judith Dod Seaman • JoAnn Seaver • Carol Seeley • Maxine Sehring • Jack and Susan Sell • Mary Selman • Elizabeth Seltzer • Jeffery Laird and Marilyn Sequoia • Sue Severin • Laurel
Severson • Ellie Shacter • Charlene Shaeffer • Margaret Shaffer • Jhankhana Shah • Celestine Armenta and Chris Sharpe • Geoffrey Shaskan • Joni Block-Shatz and Cliff Shatz • Lee Zachary Shatz
• Erika Shatz • Dorothea Shaw • Tom and Darylene Shea • Woodrow Shearer • Christine Sheff • Sayre P. Sheldon • Janet Sheldon • Suzanne Shelhart • Helga Shepard • Aaron Shepard • Jennifer
Thiermann and Robert Sheridan • Mark and Shelley Sherman • Eva Sherman • Marilyn Sherry • Michael Sherwin • Kevin Shevlin • Kent and Patricia Shifferd • Elizabeth Shippee
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Strategic relations
C
reated at the 2007 International
Assembly in Nairobi, the FiveYear Strategic Plan outlines
strategies for achieving NP’s ambitious
goals of expansion and increased global impact through 2012. The Strategic
Relations department represents the
most tangible link between the goals
in the plan and their realization on the
ground.
Strategic Relations Director David Grant and his staff devoted 2008,
the first year of the Strategic Plan, to
a number of initiatives vital to the ultimate success of NP’s long-range objectives, including:
•Developing net works of well trained civilian volunteers in
­every region prepared to engage
in unarmed civilian peacekeeping;
•Establishing a Middle East regional office;
•Maintaining close watch on developing conflicts;
•Helping to establish a “European
Civil Peace Service”;
•Providing information and skills for
Member Organizations and other
NGOs to advance the cause of unarmed peacekeeping.
One benefit of NP’s consultative
status with the Economic and Social
Council of the United Nations is a greater degree of UN access and influence
than would otherwise be possible. David Grant, Executive Director Mel Duncan, and NP Senior Advisor Rolf Carriere stayed in close contact with UN
agencies and missions throughout the
year, including visits and consultation
with the Department of Peacekeeping
Operations, the Office of Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs, UNICEF, the
Office of General Assembly President
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, the Mediation Unit of the Department of Political Affairs, and representatives of
eleven national missions.
Among the most significant events
were a briefing on Unarmed Civilian
Peacekeeping at the Canadian ­Mission
and an NP-organized reception for
NGOs and NP supporters at UNICEF.
These and other events raise awareness at the highest levels of international policymaking of the methods and
proven effectiveness of unarmed civilian peacekeeping.
Beyond the UN are other vital connections to be made. NP was represented by Strategic Relations in meetings
and conferences at the US Institute of
Peace, the Alliance for Peacebuilding,
the Partnership for Effective Peacemaking, the National Endowment for
Democracy, Pax Christi and the Carnegie Fund on issues ranging from child
soldiers and violence against women to
a proposal for a UN Emergency Peace
Service and the situation in Southern
Sudan.
NP’s regional offices around the
world were also engaged in pursuit
Wanda Shirk • Daniel and Joan Shively • Lynn Shoemaker • Terri Shofner • Carolyn Shohet • Nancy Shormey • Ellen and John Showell • Pamela Freske and Jay Shuck • Bonnie Shulman • William
Shuman • Joanne Shuman • Johanna Sibbett • June Sidman • Brenda Sielfaff • Jacque Travis and Mark Siemens • Valerie Silver • Holly Silverthorne • Peter Silveston • Mary Silvis • Kenneth
Simmons • Werner and Madeline Simon • Deborah Simons • Elizabeth Simpson • Ruth D. Sims • Norma Jean Sims • Ellen Singer • Mark Sinner • Josephine Sippie-Gora • Frank Sottile, Jr. and
Penny Sirota • Bernice Sisson • Margaret and Alexander Skinner • Bradley and Jonny Skinner • Richard and Nancy Skochdopole • Douglas and Katherine Skor • Ella and Dick Slade • Helen Duritsa
and Curtis Sloan • Kurt Buelow and Jody Slocum • Barbara and Theodore Slovin • James Small • Stanley and Marjorie Smigel • Judith Helgen and Verlyn Smith • Vivien and David Smith • Vishaka
Smith • Peter and Helen Smith • Nicholas Smith • Maureen Smith • John Smith • Jerry Smith • Helga Smith • Gregory Smith • Gloria Smith • Catherine Smith • Arthur and Darlene Smith • Anne
Smith • Andrew and Joyce Smith • John Smith-Lontz • Robert and Carla Sneed • G. Elizabeth Snider • Cynthia Snow • Edward and Dorothy Snyder • Jacque Wiersma and Ken Solberg • Judy
Solmonson • John Dregni and Meredith Sommers • Viki Sonntag • Sandra Sorensen Brophy • Laurel and Oscar Sorlie • Penny Sirota and Frank Sottile, Jr. • David Southern • Raymond and Heidi
Souza • Margaret N. Spallone • Iris Spellings • Paula and Keith Spensley • Hans and Eleanor Spiegel • Charlotte Spitzer • Nina Sprecher • Alison Squier • Richard Sroczynski • Mae Stadler •
Christopher Staines • Barbara and Ethan Stanley • Joe Stanley and Lori Zook-Stanley • Lynne Stanley and Christopher Elliott • Pat and T.E. Stark • Blanche Stark • Alia Starkweather • Ed Stazinski
• Marcia Thorndike and M. Gregg and Marcia Steadman • Elizabeth Clonz and Dale Steele • Brian Stefan-Szittai • Chuck Steffey • Florence Steichen • Charles Bookoff and Susan Stein • Steven
Steiner • Bruce J. and Julie Steiner • Charles and Janice Stenken • Edwin Stephenson • Martha Sternberg • Andy Stevens • David and Elona Street Stewart • Thomas Still • Anne and William
Stillwell • Christy Stingely • Mary and Raymond Stith • Susan Colby StJohn • Karen Stoddard • Arthur Stoeberl • Cynthia Stokes • Pablo Stone • Mary Lou Stone • Diane Stone • Caryl Ann and
Milton Stone • Pamela McAlister and Gary Stoos • Amy Storbakken • Kera Messinger and Jason Storrs • William Strathmann, M.D. • Faye and Sandor Straus • Paul and Sarah Strickland • Bertram
Strieb • John and Nancy Strom • Alan Strout • Dale Stuepfert • Evan Suiter • Theresa Sullivan • Terre Sullivan • James and Kathleen Sullivan • Tom and Mary Ann Sullivan • William and Heddie
Summer • Jodi R. Summit • Don and Doris Sundell • JoAnn Morse and Geoffrey V. Sutton • Karen Svien • John And Carol Swaim • Warren and Harriett Swartzbeck • Julie Swartzentruber • Leahe
Swayze • Elaine Kihara and David Sweet • Pat Sweney Hart • Therese and Patricia Swenson • Valerie and Paul Swenson • Jon and Linnea Swenson Tellekson • Alice Swift • Glenn Swineford
Ruth Tajon • Tetsuo and May Takayanagi • Kelly Tallman • Nancy Tamarisk • Judith Tannenbaum • Mary and Greg Tarczynski • Janet Vorvick and Stephen Tarr • Stacey Task • Margaret Tassi
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accomplishments
2008
These ... events raise awareness at the highest levels of
international policymaking of the methods and proven
effectiveness of unarmed civilian peacekeeping.
of the organization’s strategic goals.
Latin American and Caribbean coordinator Alvaro Ramirez-Durini presented
a paper titled “Nonviolence and Multidimensional Security” to the Civil Society Hemispheric Forum in preparation
for the General Assembly of the Organization of American States in March.
Two months later, Alvaro joined with
IGC member Theo Roncken to conduct
a workshop in nonviolent intervention
at the UN University for Peace in Costa
Rica.
The North American regional office
focused on raising public awareness
through nonviolent conflict resolution
workshops, training volunteer facilitators across the U.S., and developing a
10-module, six-day regional curriculum
for training local peace teams.
It was a busy year, but only the beginning of a long and complex process,
bringing to pass the fruits of a vision
forged in Nairobi by a global assembly
of peacemakers.
Paul Tatone • Bob Tavani • Richard Taylor • Karen Taylor • Joe and Audrey Taylor • Jane Taylor • Elizabeth K. Taylor • Eleanor Taylor • Walter Kersey and Frances Taylor • Richard and Phyllis Taylor
• Edwin and Lora Temple • Jack and Marion Templeton • Lynn and Linda Ten Eyck • Kathleen Tennessen • Diane Tessari • Jan Tessling • Rita Tester • Rebecca and Alden Tetlie • Irene Thayer •
Vickie McCurdy and Stanley Thiele • Jan and Terry Thiermann • Patricia Tholl • Douglas Nopar and Joann Thomas • Mae Gautier and Norman Thomas • Marilyn Schulze and Paul Thomas • Taryn
Thomas • Stephanie Thomas • Robert Thomas • Nancy and Ron Thomas • Dr. Tamar Thomas • John Thompson • Helen Thompson • Dennis R. Thompson • Alice and Donald Thompson • Peter
and Fredrika Thompson • Sara Thomsen • Evelyn Thornton • Suzanne Thorp • Deborah Thorp • Nancy Thrams • Karin Thual • Elizabeth Thurmer • Jon and Cathi Tiedeman • Richard and Gladys
Tiffany • Connie Goldman and Ken Tilsen • Bill Tilton • Ken Tobacman • Frances Tobian • A.P. Tobie • Louise Todd Cope • Entcho Todorov • Barbara and Edward Tonningsen • Richard and Sandra
Torre-Bueno • Gay Trachsel • Chuck and Anna Tracy • Barbara and Felix Tracy • Susan and Gordon Travis • Fran and Mike Trevisan • Polly Triche • Jaimee Trobough • Eve Trook • Donald and Jane
Truhlar • Virginia D. Ahrens and Conrad Trumbore • Meg Tuccillo • Steve and Gayle Tuch • Maurice and Helene Tuchman • Steve Tuckner and Angela Jerome-Tuckner • Edith and Stuart Tugman •
Fred and Kay Turk • Robert and Margaret Turner • Shannon Turner-Covell • Emily Anne Staples and Gedney Tuttle • Robert Tyler • Walter McCarthy and Clare Ueland • Kate Umans • Constance
Unruh • Robert and Virginia Unruhe • Barbara Urschel • Steve Woletz and Karen Utter
Paul Valley • Richard and Elizabeth Vanden Heuvel • Marjorie L. Vandervoort • William D Vandivier • Marguerite VanWychen • Rita Irene Varley • Susan Mallison and David and Susan Vaughan •
Gail Vaughn • Jacqueline Vecchio • Eric Veldey • Jim and Kathleen Vellenga • Jane and Bill Venell • David Viafora • Gail Vick • Polly Victor • Nancy Vileno • Richard and Lynn Voelbel • Daniel Vogel
• Jane Volckhausen • Arist Martin Von Hehn • Lauren Vreeland-Long
Dianne Wachs • Alice Waco • Richard and Linda Wahl • Marta and Martin Waibel • Alice O’Hara and Kevin Walker • Pat and Samuel Walker • Michael Walker • Carol Walker • Barbara Wallace •
J. Elaine Waller-Rose • Bettine and Lawrence Wallin • Dorothy Walsh • Rhoda Walter • Jo Walter • Helen Wang • Hallie Wannamaker • Jeremy Warburg Russo • Nancy Ward • Melissa Ward • Ann
and Dale Warner • Elisabeth Turner and Bradley Warner • David and Nancy Warner • Jenny and Deacon Warner • Molly Warner • Louis Warner-Kamsler • Tom and Zantha Warth • Samuel Washburn
and Jane Ronca-Washburn • Jennie Wasserman • Shirley Weaver • Ruth Weaver • Marlys Weber • Kathy Weber • Harold and Joy Weecks • Kim Weichel • Edward Weingold
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Capacity building
laying the foundation for five years of global expansion
T
he Capacity Building department
devoted the first year of the FiveYear Strategic Plan to laying a
foundation for the ambitious growth envisioned in the plan. Despite a staffing
shortage that required Capacity Building Director Phil Esmonde to double as
global co-Programme Director with oversight of the Sri Lanka project in the first
five months of the year, considerable
progress was made on several fronts.
In addition to making communication with volunteers and NP trainers
more systematic, an updated list of volunteer screeners and interviewers for
NP applicants was developed and the
NP application form revised, including
the creation of a systematic and weighted applicant screening tool. These, in
addition to a revision of the applicant
telephone interview format, reference
checking process, and pre-selection
medical form, constituted structural
improvements essential to the marked
expansion of capacity planned between
2008 and 2012.
Late in the year, the department carried out a successful recruitment process in preparation for a Mission Preparedness Training (MPT) in Mindanao,
Philippines in early 2009. CB Director
Esmonde conducted a pre-training visit
to identify a suitable training center and
put all organizational requirements in
place for the training event. Additionally,
the quality and substance of the threeweek MPT curriculum itself underwent
further improvements.
In an effort to help secure the resources needed for the planned expansion of
capacity, the department assisted development of three funding proposals.
The CB Director also helped initiate a
Catalan funding request for meetings
of the International Governance Council
and the Directors in 2009.
Finally, the availability of the NP reserves was updated and a mechanism
created to make the data available to
field projects every four months.
Each of these improvements puts
one more essential element in place,
creating a more efficient and effective
mechanism for enlarging both our field
capacity and our ability to support that
greatly expanded field presence.
Barbara Rogers and Richard Weis • Janet Watchman and Joel Weisberg • Alan and Marjorie Weisel • Bob Irwin and Lynne Weiss • Ann M. Welch • Doris Wells • Susan and James Welna • Kay
Welsch • Helen Welter • Edward and Marilyn Welz • Sita Wendroff • Michael and Michele Werner • Dorothy Werner • Henry and Patricia West • David West and Helen Kingman West • Pamela
Wetterlund • Patricia Boiko and Karl Weyrauch • Katherine Whelchel • Thomas and Darlene White • David White • Dana White • James and Mary White • Cynthia Whitehead • Jane Whiteside •
Toby Whithouse • Tom Ewell and Cathy Whitmire • Theresa Wicka • Mariette Wickes • Nancy Wickham • Bridget Ann Wickiser • Saul and Joan Wider • Shayna Berkowitz and Phyllis Wiener •
Barbra Wiener • Gary Wiesendanger • Richard Wigton • Donald Wikgren • Paul and Carolyn Wilberg • Rich and Margaret Wildberger • Clint Weimester and Caroline Wildflower • Paula Wilkes •
Frances and Frank S. Wilkinson • James Wilkinson III • Leonard Wilkuski • Thomas and Valerie Williams • Robert F. Williams • Robert Williams • Marjorie Williams • Marie Williams • John and
Christa Williams • Lee and Arelene Williamson • Sharon and George Willoughby • Mary Wilmes • Richard Wilson • R. Marilyn Wilson • Pearl Wilson • Mary Wilson • John and Rosemary Wilson •
Mary Shedd and Steven Wilson • George Winard • Jean Wincek • Elizabeth Winder • John Windle • Winifred Windriver • Douglas and Carol Wingeiler • Anne and Ken Winkes • Augustus Winkes •
Ben and Sloane Winkes • Ronald Winkler • Linda Winsor • Laurel Winsor • Lucy Winton • Rick and Gail Wirch • Cecilia Wirth • Carol Jean Wisnieski • Julie Wissinger • Winston Cavert and Carol
Witte • Wayne Wittman • Pat Wixom • David Wodhams • Donna and Thomas Woehrle • Katherine Wojtan • Sylvia Wolf • Ralph and Gretka Wolfe • Roy and Judy Wolff • Martin and Billee Wolff •
Sandra Wong • Arthur Woo • Rex Wood • Marjorie Wood • David Woodard • Peter Woodrow • Joe Woodward • Charles Workman • Hannah Worku • Berhane and Sally Worku • Katherine Woytych
• Wendy Wrean • Nancy Wrenn • Dave Root and Bobbie Wrenn Banks • Jenny Wrenson • Eric Segal and Anne Wright • Marietta Wright • Anita Wucinic-Turner • Jake Kirchgessner and Deborah
Wuerfel • Marjorie Wunder • Richard Williams and Susan Wyall • Nancy Wygant • John and Eleanor Yackel • Ruth and Mike Yarrow • Harry Yeide Jr. • M. Geraldine Yelich • Jennifer Zator • Robert
C. and Holly C. Zeeb • Karen and Jim Zeleznak • Joanne Zema • Joyce Zerwekh • Elissa Zimmerman • John Lineberger and David Zimmerman • Pyle Center and Mary Rose Zink • Sarai Zitter •
Robin L. Zitter • Sherry Zitter • Nanlouise Wolfe and Stephen Zunes
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looking ahead
The year 2009 marks the second year of the Five-Year Strategic Plan created at NP’s 2007 General Assembly in Nairobi.
Thanks in large part to the groundwork laid in 2008 and to our
improved financial situation, the year will include continued,
measurable progress in the service of such goals as enhanced
regional effectiveness, strategic planning, advocacy, and
public awareness—all in the interest of building a truly global,
high-capacity civilian peacekeeping organization.
As our peacekeeping project in Sri Lanka enters its sixth
year in 2009, the needs of a quarter million internally displaced persons are at the forefront of NP’s concerns. At the
same time, the demands for protective accompaniment of
human rights defenders, journalists, and others at risk have
never been higher.
As 2009 began in Mindanao, the security situation remained volatile with peace talks stalled between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
and an increase in local violence and abductions. NP Philippines completed several steps toward meeting the challenges
2009
of the fragile security situation, including
a considerable increase in the size of
the project staff, opening new field sites,
opening a liaison office in Manila, and
organizing training for new international
staff. Progress on the establishment of
an early warning network is also expected to aid NP’s ability to detect and contain the potential for violent outbreaks
throughout the coming year and beyond.
There are many reasons for optimism
in 2009 as individuals, organizations,
and governments express an evergreater awareness and support of the
concept of unarmed civilian peacekeeping. Nonviolent Peaceforce will continue
to build this awareness and support as it
puts that concept into effective practice
around the world.
highlights for 2009
• New mission preparedness training and doubling
the number of our peacekeepers in Mindanao.
• Continued engagement to involve our peacekeepers in the Vanni area of Sri Lanka.
• A results-based focus to our peacekeeping work in
Sri Lanka.
• An exploratory mission to Southern Sudan.
• Consideration of new project in Georgia.
• New major funding sources including the European Commission and the Belgian government.
• A face-to-face meeting of the IGC, staff directors
and regional coordinators in Barcelona in April.
• High level briefings on unarmed civilian peacekeeping at the UN, Organization of American
States, the Catalan Regional Parliament and the
European Union.
• Implementation of a new communications plan
that will include a new website and video.
• Transition to a new International Executive Director
before the end of the year.
• A streamlined accounting system.
NP Strategic Relations Director David Grant and NP Africa
Regional Coordinator Otieno Ombok in Southern Sudan
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international governance council
The International Governance Council (IGC) is the
decisionmaking body of Nonviolent Peaceforce
(NP). Currently composed of members from 11
countries, the IGC is chosen at NP’s International
Assembly.
Yukio Aki
Japan
director’s team
Mel Duncan
Executive Director
Outi Arajärvi
Germany
Christine
Schweitzer
Phil Esmonde
Program Director
Capacity Building
Director
Eric Bachman
United States
Simonetta
Costanzo Pittaluga
Spain
Jan Passion
Program Officer
David Grant
Strategic Relations
Director
Omar Diop
Senegal
Faith Edman
United States
Tim Wallis
Program Director
Agnieszka Komoch
International
Fundraising Director
Donna Howard
United States
(co-chair)
Ramu Manivannan
India
regional coordinators
Israel Naor
Israel
Lucy Nusseibeh
Palestine
Joan Bernstein
Theo Roncken
Bolivia
Sandra Salcedo
Peru
Alessandro
Rossi
Farrukh Sohail
Goindi
Pakistan
(co-chair)
Cuauhtémoc
Romero Villagómez
Mexico
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North America
Europe
Mitsuo Okamoto
East Asia
Alvaro
Ramirez-Durini
Latin America and
the Caribbean
Ombok Otieno
Africa
Rajiv Vora
Central Asia
member organizations
AFRICA
Academic Associates/PeaceWorks
Chemchemi ya Ukweli-Wellspring of
Truth
COSEDDH - Senegalese Coalition of Human Rights Defenders
Mano River Women’s Network
NOVASC-Nonviolent Action and Strategies for Social Change
WANEP-West Africa Network for Peacekeeping
ASIA/PACIFIC
AKKAPKA (Action for Peace and Justice)
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development - FORUM-ASIA
Association of Peoples of Asia
Center for the Study and Promotion
of Peace, Duta Wacana Christian
University
Committee for Nonviolent Action in
Burma (CNAB)
Foundation for Democracy - Pakistan
Nonviolent Peaceforce - Japan
Nonviolent Peaceforce - Korea
PAKAT (Pangkapayapaang Adhikaing Kusang-dangal Aksyong Tagapamagitan)
Peace Boat
Peace Information Center
RCED (Resource Center for Empowerment and Development)
Swaraj Peeth Trust
The Peace Foundation
Women Making Peace
Women Peacemakers
EUROPE
Austrian Study Center for Peace and
Conflict Resolution
Bund fuer Soziale Verteidigung
Centro Studi Difesa Civile
Forum ZFD Civil Peace Services
MAN (Mouvement pour une Alternative
Non-violente)
Netherlands Expert Centre Alternatives
to Violence (NEAG)
Norwegian Peace Association
NOVA Centre per a la Innovació Social
PATRIR (Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania)
PDCS - Partners for Democratic Change
Slovakia
INTERNATIONAL
Center For Nonviolent Communication,
USA
IFOR - International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Netherlands
International Peace Bureau (IPB), Switzerland
Nonviolence International, USA
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples’
Organization, Netherlands
LATIN AMERICA
Acción Andina
Comisión de Apoyo a la Unidad y Reconciliación Comunitaria [CORECO]
Fundación Boliviana de la Juventud
[UNOY]
Fundación Instituto de Mediación [FIME]
Fundacion Rigoberta Menchu Tum
Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo
Red de Apoyo por la Justicia y la Paz
SERPAZ
MIDDLE EAST
GIPP/PNGO-Grassroots International for
the Protection of Palestinians
Holy Land Trust (HOLT)
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
The International Solidarity Movement
MEND - Middle East Nonviolence and
Democracy
Palestinian Center for Rapprochement
Between People
Permanent Peace Movement (PPM)
NORTH AMERICA
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
CONTACT
Fellowship of Reconciliation USA
Global Exchange
Global Peace Services USA
Jewish Peace Fellowship
Michigan Peace Team
Nonviolent Peaceforce - Canada
Pace e Bene, From Violence to Wholeness
Pax Christi - U.S.A.
Peaceful Tomorrows
Peaceworkers
Sojourners
Tikkun
Training for Change
USNPCA - United States Nonviolent
Peaceforce Chapter Association
Voices of Women For Peace
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financial support
The peacekeeping work of Nonviolent Peaceforce is made possible by the generosity of the following donors in addition to the more than two thousand individuals listed on the preceeding pages.
foundations
legacy circle
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designating Nonviolent Peaceforce as a beneficiary
in their estate plans.
Anonymous
Steven Birdlebough
Vaughn Bradshaw
Sally Davis
Linda Dunn
Michael Dunn
Bob Edgerton
Ed Flowers
Ann Frisch
Paula Hanke
Ann Hardt
Gloria Joyce
Jean Maryborn
Joe Morton
Eugene Ott
Mary Lou Ott
Clarkson Palmer
Linda Sartor
Erika Shatz
Richard Stevens
Gary Stoos
Cheryl Wilfong
governmental and intergovernmental agencies
German Government - IFA: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
e.V. ( Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations)- Zivik
Project
UNICEF: United Nations Children’s Fund
UNHCR: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Belgian Government Foreign Ministry
Government of Canada - CIDA and Canada Fund
British High Commission Colombo
Australian Government - AusAID
SIDA: The Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency
German Federal Ministry for Development (BMZ) – agreed in
2008, paid 2009
European Commission – Instrument for Stability – agreed in
2008, paid 2009
French Foreign Ministry – agreed in 2008, paid 2009
companies
Common Grounds Coffee Shop
Como Northtown Credit Union
Consensus Brokers LLC
Northwest Vestibular Services
RBC Dain Raucher
Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI)
Rogers & Company
Seven Corners Printing Company
Way North Films
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A. H. Zeppa Family Foundation
Anonymous
Anonymous
Appleton Foundation
Aurora Foundation
Blandin Foundation
Roger L. and Agnes C. Dell Charitable Trust
Fenwick Foundation
Solidago Foundation/Francis Fund
Girling Family Fund of RSF Finance
Hawkins Family Foundation
Irwin Andrew Porter Foundation
James Ford Bell Foundation
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
H. William Lurton Foundation
Marbrook Foundation
Neelan Thruchelvan
Niwano Foundation
Nonviolence XXI
Popular Movement Fund of the Peace Development Fund
Ploughshares Fund
Samuel Rubin Foundation
Ten Times Foundation
The Winston and Maxinne Wallin Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation
Kim Lund Fund of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice
organizations/institutions
Ann Arbor Society of Friends
Bread for the World
Bremer Bank National Association
Christian Aid
Civil Society Institute
Community Solutions Fund
CORDAID
Home Rule Globally
Grass Lake Medical Center
Intercommunity Justice & Peace Center, Cincinnati, OH
Michigan Peace Teams
Microgrants
New Yorkers for A Department of Peace Inc.
Nonviolent Peaceforce Bay
North Dakota Peace Coalition
On Earth Peace Assembly, Inc.
OXFAM Australia
Paul R Lavery & Associates
Peace and Social Concerns
Peaceworkers
Peaceworks of Kansas City
Philadelphia Area and Bucks County Chapters
Philippine Study Group
PWRDF: The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund
South Austin Coalition Community Council
Swarthmore College
Tavola Valdese
Wisconsin Historical Society
faith communities
Academy of Our Lady of Lourdes , Rochester, MN
Albuqerque Mennonite Church, Albuquerque, NM
Assisi Heights Convent, Rochester, MN
Berkeley Society of Friends, Berkeley , CA
Community of St. Martin, Minneapolis, MN
Concord Monthly Meeting of Friends, Concordville, PA
Congregation of St. Joseph, Madison Heights, MI
Congregation of St. Joseph, Columbus, OH
Doylestown Monthly Meeting of Friends, Doylestown, PA
Evanston Friends Meeting, Evanston, IL
Franciscan Prayer Group, Albuquerque, NM
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, Little Falls, MN
Franciscan Sisters of St. Paul, St. Paul, MN
Grand Rapids Dominicans, Grand Rapids, MI
Grass Valley Friends Meeting , Nevada City, CA
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN
Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, Springfield, IL
Immaculate Conception Preparation and Youth Ministry,
Eau Claire , WI
Inland Communities Friends Meeting - Intercommunity
Justice and Peace, Corona, CA
Jewish Family and Children’s Services, San Francisco, CA
Kairos Lutheran Church, Plymouth, MN
La Jolla Meeting of Friends, La Jolla, CA
Laguna Franciscan Friary, Laguna, NM
Loaves and Fishes Community, Duluth, MN
Marin Friends Meeting, San Rafael, CA
Medford Monthly Meeting, Medford, NJ
Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, Morristown, NJ
Mount Holly Monthly Meeting, Mount Holly, NJ
Mount St. Francis, Dubuque, IA
New Covenant Fellowship, Athens, OH
Newport Presbyterian Church, Bellevue, WA
Nova Catholic Community, Arlington, VA
Our Savior’s Atonement Lutheran Church, New York, NY
Palo Alto Friends Meeting, Palo Alto, CA
Parish Evaluation Project, Milwaukee, WI
Pax Christi NW Minnesota, Crookston, MN
Pax Christi Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN
Peace and Social Concerns, Swarthmore, PA
Poplar Ridge Friends Meeting, Poplar Ridge, NY
Province of the Helpers of the Holy Souls, Chicago, IL
Redwood Forest Friends Meeting, Santa Rosa, CA
San Francisco Friends Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Santa Cruz Friends Meeting, Santa Cruz, CA
School Sisters of Notre Dame, St. Paul, MN
Servants of Mary, La Crosse, WI
Servite Sisters, Vadnais Heights, MN
Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kansas City, KS
Sisters of Loretto, Special Needs Committee, St. Louis, MO
Sisters of Providence, St. Mary of the Woods, IN
Sisters of Providence, Terre Haute, IN
Sisters of St. Dominic, Racine, WI
Sisters of St. Dominic, San Rafael, CA
Sisters of St. Francis, Burr Ridge, IL
Sisters of St. Francis, Chicago, IL
Sisters of St. Francis, Clinton, IA
Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg, IN
Sisters of St. Francis, Rochester, MN
Sisters of St. Joseph, Madison Heights, MI
Sisters of St. Joseph, St Paul, MN
Sisters of St. Joseph - Carondolet Community, Minneapolis,
MN
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St Louis, MO
Sisters of the Divine Savior, Milwaukee, WI
Society of the Divine Word, Technay, IL
St. Andrews Presbyterian, Tucker, GA
St. Croix Valley Friends Meeting, Lake Elmo, MN
St. Luke Presbyterian Church, Wayzata, MN
St. Timothy Lutheran Church, St. Paul, MN
Temple Israel, Minneapolis, MN
The Church of Our Lady of Peace, Minneapolis, MN
The First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, MA
Unitarian Church of Willmar, Willmar, MN
Unitarian Fellowship of West Chester, West Chester, PA
Unitarian Universalist Church, Fargo, ND
Unitarian Universalist Community Church, Park Forest, IL
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin, San Rafael, CA
University of St. Thomas, St Paul, MN
Ursuline Provincialate #5000, Kirkwood, MO
Ursuline Sisters, Louisville, KY
Legacy Circle and Hartsough Duncan Founders Circle
Give future generations a chance to live in a world without war. Become a member of the Legacy
Circle by remembering NP in your will.
You can also join NP’s Hartsough Duncan Founders Circle to recognize and celebrate David
Hartsough and Mel Duncan for their contributions as co-founders of Nonviolent Peaceforce.
Members of the Hartsough Duncan Founders Circle make 3-5 year pledges to honor the
steadfast commitment of our founders to a better, more peaceful world.
For more information about the Legacy Circle or the Hartsough Duncan Founders Circle,
contact Erika Shatz at (612) 871-0005 or eshatz@nonviolentpeaceforce.org—or visit
www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org and click on Donate.
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financial report
Statement of Financial Condition
December 31, 2008 and 2007
ASSETS
Current Assets:
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Receivables
Prepaid Expenses
Inventory
Total Current Assets
Property and Equipment
Deposit
Total Assets
2008
2007
$808,631
294,987
22,720
2,460
1,128,798
130,658
5,500
$1,264,956
$295,364
150,611
88,685
2,460
537,120
76,929
$614,049
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Current Liabilities:
Accounts Payable
Current Portion of Long-Term Debt
Total Current Liabilities
Long-Term Debt
Total Liabilities
$521,259
100,045
621,304
7,321
628,625
$226,046
99,043
325,089
77,811
402,900
Net Assets:
Unrestricted
Temporarily Restricted
Total Net Assets
567,145
69,186
$636,331
140,135
71,014
$211,149
$1,264,956
$614,049
Total Liabilities And Net Assets
This statement summarizes the activities of the two legal entities composing the international
body of Nonviolent Peaceforce. Accounts are audited separately under the legislations of
Belgium, and the U.S. Auditors’ statements are available upon request.
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financial report
Statement of Activities
For the year ending December 31, 2008
SUPPORT AND REVENUE
Individuals
Foundations
Government Grants
Faith Communities
$1,880,809
213,275
1,610,300
105,368
Interest/Dividend Income
Miscellaneous Income
In-Kind Contributions
Total Support and Revenue
2,663
20,387
32,321
$3,865,123
EXPENSES
Deployed Peacekeepers
Advocacy and Strategic Relations
Training and Capacity Building
Total Program Services
$2,159,611
567,502
57,595
2,784,708
Support Services:
Management, Governance and
General
Fundraising
Total Support Services
Total Expenses
278,627
376,606
655,233
$3,439,941
Change In Net Assets
Net Assets - Beginning of Year
Net Assets - End of Year
Euros converted to $1.47 U.S. Dollars based
on the average exchange rate during 2008.
REVENUE
EXPENSES
Interest/Divd. and Misc. Income 0.6 %
Faith Communities
2.7 %
425,182
211,149
$636,331
In-Kind Contributions 0.8 %
Fundraising
10.9 %
Inkind
Management,
Governance and
General
Int/Misc
8.1 %
Government
Grants
41.7 %
Individual
Donors
48.7 %
Faith
Gvt
Training and
Capacity
Building
1.7 %
Advocacy and
Strategic Relations
16.5 %
Deployed
Peacekeepers
62.8 %
Found
Ind
Foundations
5.5 %
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Nonviolent Peace force
­N
ONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE IS AN UNARMED,
professional civilian peacekeeping
force headquartered in Brussels. On
invitation by local peace advocates, Nonviolent
Peaceforce (NP) has worked in conflict areas in
Sri Lanka, the ­Philippines and Guatemala and
provided monitors to ensure peaceful elections
in Palestine. NP uses proven nonviolent strategies to protect those at risk, monitor conflicts,
and open space for local groups to enter into
dialogue, creating real and lasting alternatives
to violence.
Initiated in 1999 at the Hague Appeal for
Peace and convened in 2002 at Surajkund, India,
NP is a global federation of 70 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 were killed and 1.6 ­million
displaced in the civil war that ravaged Sri ­Lanka
for twenty-five years. A second full deployment
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was launched in the Mindanao region of the
Philippines in 2007. The same year, an emergency rapid deployment was undertaken to
protect human rights workers in ­Guatemala.
Our Field Team Members use proven strategies to reduce and prevent violence. These
include:
• Providing protective accompaniment
for human rights defenders and
peaceworkers;
• Providing proactive presence to
vulnerable groups and communities;
• Monitoring ceasefire agreements,
demonstrations and other volatile
situations;
• Coordinating with other nongovernmental 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 diverse ­sources
including foundations, ­individuals, religious
communities, governments, independent
aid agencies and UN organizations including
­UNICEF and UNHCR.
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
$25
The Space for Peace
$50
A Day of Peace
Bringing People Together
Bringing people together in a neutral
setting encourages mutual respect and
understanding.
$100
Two Days of Peace
$250
Fifty Hours of Peace
$500
100 Hours of Peace
Preventing Election Violence
International presence during elections
empowers citizens to express their beliefs
and ideals.
The Heart of the Community
Safe Passages
Our open offices in the heart of the
Unarmed peacekeepers protect vulnerable
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 Europe
Rue Belliard 205
1040 Brussels, BELGIUM
32 2 648 0076 (tel & fax)
europe@nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Nonviolent Peaceforce Sri Lanka
26a Ediriweera Mawatha
Dehiwala, SRI LANKA
94 11 273 6958 (tel & fax)
nplanka@nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Nonviolent Peaceforce Philippines
House #003
Gen. Luna/Don E. Sero Street
Rosary Heights 4
Cotabato City, Philippines
ahameed@nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Nonviolent Peaceforce
425 Oak Grove Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403, USA
612-871-0005 tel, 612-871-0006 fax
info@nonviolentpeaceforce.org