NONVIOLENT ACTION

FOR
BUILDING PEACE
 Martin Luther King

It is no longer a choice, my friends,

between violence and nonviolence. It is
either nonviolence or nonexistence.
 MAHATMA GANDHI

You must be the change you

wish to see in the world
NONVIOLENT PEACE TEAMS

1) ACCOMPANIMENT AND PROTECTION

2) SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT
FOR LOCAL CIVIL SOCIETY
3) EDUCATION FOR LARGER GLOBAL
COMMUNITY
4) INTERNATIONAL ACTION SUCH AS
EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO CRISIS
 PEACE TEAMS
• INSPIRED BY MAHATMA GANDHI
VISION OF ‘PEACE ARMY’
• PEACE BRIGADES INTERNATIONAL
FOUNDED IN CANADA IN 1981
• CHRISTIAN PEACEMAKER TEAMS
FOUNDED IN 1988
• NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE FOUNDED
IN 2002
SRI LANKA
NP TEAM HOUSE - SL
NP TEAM IN SRI LANKA
Team in Batticaloa
 ESU - Foundation for Social Upliftment
Local NGO assisting in IDP camp, Batticaloa
Family in IDP camp
Girl in IDP camp
Muslim family in Batticaloa
Training Group in Nairobi
House Damage in Yala, Kenya
Observation in Yala, Kenya
 TEAM EXERCISE

NP’s peacekeeper training is 23 days, 10 hours/day with only 5 evenings off. Session tracks include:
Personal Awareness, Personal Well-Being, Team Building, Culture and Rank, Theory of Third Party Nonviolent
Intervention, Security, Technical Skills, Immediate Conflict Skills, Presence Technique, Accompaniment
Technique, Monitoring/Observing, Interposition Technique, and Evaluation.
 NONVIOLENT ACTION
• NONVIOLENCE IN JERUSALEM
ANDTHE WEST BANK
• IN MAS’HA VILLAGE
• IN VILLAGE OF YANOUN
• SUPPORTED BY INTERNATIONAL
NONVIOLENT PRESENCE
HAS WON CHANGES IN LAWS
ISRAEL
ACTIVIST AT
CHECKPOINT
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OLIVE oTREES BULLDOZED

WEST BANK ROADBLOCK
GATE TO ENCLOSED
HOME
SECTION OF
WALL, MAS’HA
OBSERVER
IN YANOUN
FREEDOM MARCH
WEST BANK
CO-FOUNDER, INT’L
SOLIDARITYMOVEMENT
NETA GOLAN
 DEPARTMENT OF PEACE
ACTION POINTS
• Reinvigorate Canada’s role as a global
peacemaker and peacebuilder;
• Work with international campaign for
departments of peace, which have been
formed in Nepal and the Solomon Islands
• 3rd year of international campaign
• Supported in Canada by Lloyd Axworthy,
Council of Canadians, and United Church
 ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• Provide leadership on an international
level to halt the proliferation of nuclear
weapons and promote the abolition of
nuclear, biological, and chemical,
weapons and the reduction of
conventional weapons arsenals;
 FUND PEACE TEAMS
• Fund the creation of a Civilian Peace
Service in Canada that would recruit and
deploy an effective and well-trained peace
force in Canada and abroad in
cooperation with existing NGOs, training
organizations and universities;
NP TEAM MEETING
 DEVELOP NONVIOLENT
APPROACHES

• Develop new approaches to non-violent

intervention that focus on constructive
dialogue, and the transformation of
conflicts (such as the development of
peace and reconciliation summits);
 RECONCILIATION
• Address peace-related issues that are
both domestic and, as well as international
in scope, utilizing methodologies such as
Restorative Justice and Nonviolent
Communication (NVC);
ISIOLO RECONCILIATION PROJECT
CHEM CHEMI YA UKWELI, KENYA
 TRACK ARMS SALES

• Make annual reports to Cabinet and

Parliament on the sale of arms by Canada
to other nations, showing how the multiple
impacts of such sales affect peace;
 SUPPORT PEACE EDUCATION
AND LOCAL PEACE ACTION

• Encourage the development of peace

initiatives from local communities, faith
groups and NGOs;

• Fund the development of curriculum

materials for use at all educational levels
and support university-level peace studies.
TRAINING ROLE PLAY SESSION IN KIBERA,
NAIROBI, KENYA
 TRAINING FOR PERSONNEL
• Provide for the training of Canadian
military and civilian government personnel
who administer post-conflict
demobilization and reconstruction in war-
torn societies;
 SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS
• Promote justice and democratic principles
to expand human rights and the security of
persons and their communities, consistent
with the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, and the Declaration and
Programme of Action on a Culture of
Peace (1999);
• www.departmentofpeace.ca – join us!