Global Peace Partners, Inc.

Retired Army Veteran disabled, Father of 7 children (his hers ours and one adopted.) Still working Oregon State Pen. 22 yr. involved with Veteran organizations, AVVA, Vets helping Vets and American Legion. I have special interest in food production, outdoors and trying to help others. Hail from Salmon Idaho and I currently reside with my family in Oregon. 

Law student

I am Olive, a Ugandan and a God fearing person. I am so previllaged to join the moody group net work. I would like to get in touch with God fearing people like you and especially church leaders who are willing to reach out to the poor church and prisons communities in developing countries like Uganda. I help out the local churches and the prisons project i am currently working for  in project proposal writing and fundraising so that they can start projects for the people, as well as host conferences to reach out to the communities through preaching the word of God.

I volunteer with a UK based prisons charity with offices in Uganda. I love people, share, care, comfort and reachout to those in need. Good to know you Dan and i would really want to that you keep in touch.

Blessings!!!

I am a church leader based in the Western part of Kenya.  I am also the Programs Cooridinator for Mt. Elgon Peace Initiative which is a grass root community peace building project

i work in fire and rescue and am  looking for something to be apart of and assist where ever i can

This is my 34th year working in the private, informal,development and relief sectors. Since 1975 I have worked or carried out consultanciesin 15 countries, most of them in either conflict of post conflict. The firsttime I traveled to Africa from Sri Lanka, I did neither needed visas nor didanyone check my bags. Over the years I realized that there were more and moreconflicts and different actors taking arms to either protect or defendthemselves. Analyzing the causes I found that it was marginalization,discrimination, injustices, ego, dissatisfaction, greed and lust for power thatwere the main reasons that prompted and promoted conflicts.  I also analyzed and found that there were manyareas in the world where intergenerational transmission of hatred and povertythat was fuelling conflict as the young who lived in marginalization and sawtheir elders killed or in poverty either resigned to hopelessness or took uparms. As there are very few “peacemakers” in marginalized and conflict prone communities,I found that this augments rather reduces or stops conflict. I also analyzed whythere were very few persons who specialized in peacemaking who could resolvethe challenges, establish policies and procedures and educate governments thatthere were advantages of maintaining peace. I found that the reasons why therewere very few efficient peace makers or advocates for peace was because therewas no need of them in the past and therefore they never emerged. However, as Irealized that we need them now, I questioned myself as to where they were anddecided to find ways to increase them in the communities I worked in. Furtherresearch revealed that there were no talented and focused peacemakers as most ofthem had selected professions they assumed to be lucrative or marketable,rather than focus and identify and refine their talents/strengths and make themavailable to the world.  Peacemaking wasalso not a profession where they could earn their living and therefore they hadignored their calling and left the peace making to religious persons.Unfortunately, most of the conflicts on earth originate due either religious ortribal origin, so I needed to look for a commonality that could bind peoplerather than separate them.  

I found that the best option was sensitizing communities onthe manner they could earn sufficiently, enhance their livelihoods and livemeaningfully if THEY STOPPED ALL CONFLICTS and respected everyone’s talents andstrengths as “everyone needs everyone else to enable communities and businessesto thrive” as everyone was either an actor in a service or production valuechain or a person with leadership traits to develop civil society and otherlocal organizations.

Once I was sure of this, I started a process in conflict andpost conflict areas to sensitize communities on the advantages of stoppingconflict and maintaining peace. I coach communities to nominate trustworthypersons with leadership traits (Minute or emerging) to take the lead inestablishing Committees for Better Living (CBL) to identify analyze and seekprocesses to overcome conflict and lack of access to basic services thatprovoke conflict. Then I give them coaching to establish Value ChainAssociations (VCAs) save and provide loans to members of VCAs and nominate andelect persons who engage themselves to be transparent and govern to establishlarger organizations, register as cooperatives/associations and apply forlarger loans to develop their value chains and enhance livelihoods. My intentis to set up as many Advisory Centers for Better Living (ACBLs) as possible inareas where there is conflict in order that the world has peace eventually.     Pleasesee a program at: http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/node/17595

In my most recent job with UNESCO country office in Kathmandu,for Communication and Information and coordinating and facilitating to the activities of UNESCO Kathmandu for public information throughout and to liaise with external information providers and other agencies to avoid duplication and maximize the benefits of working in partnership.

I have also worked with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), involved in Bhutanese refugee resettlement programme and as well as  I have demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment, and establishharmonious and effective working relationships both within and outside theorganization throughout my tenure. As a National Admin and language assistant,I supported UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) with arms monitoring unit. I am wellknown about Maoist combatant’s structure and their background since long time.

I have undertaken varying assignments, encompassing a range of issues like conflict mitigation and democratization through community sensitization in mid and far western Nepal.I especially have experience in Nepali peace and democratization Process, human rights and conflict transformation at regional level of Midwestern Nepal. Some of my reasons for wanting to serve have changed while others remain the same. I bring with me 7 years of intensive working experience as a development practitioner, human rights activates and peace maker and involved at grassroots level with different UN Agencies and several civil society organizations. I have been very closely working for Nepali peace process.