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A message from Service For Peace President Charles Phillips:
Dear Friends, I know you will have shared my sense of shock and sadness today as we gradually became increasingly aware of the extent of the devastation in Haiti. The loss of life and the destruction of schools and hospitals would be too much for any country to bear but when you also consider that Haiti was already the poorest nation in our hemisphere, then the level of suffering is unimaginable. Read the letter
Peacebuilding Leaders Tackle World’s Most Pressing Global Issues
First Global Peace Convention Convened in the Philippines from December 10-14, 2009 Early morning, December 14, 134 dignitaries and leaders of peacebuilding efforts from 28 different nations boarded a plane to Mindanao – a region that has been the center of national attention recently. Globally, Mindanao may be seen as a hot spot of armed conflict and considered “dangerous”, but it is also the home of innovative peacebuilding models. These models have attracted leaders of global peace efforts. Read the report |
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Forum on Volunteerism Highlights Kenya Model |
 On January 27th the Global Peace Service Alliance (GPSA) and Atlas Service Corps hosted a joint luncheon in Washington highlighting GPSA’s ongoing service projects in Kenya and Atlas Corps model of placing volunteer leaders from developing countries as fellows in U.S.-based nonprofit organizations. Vincent Rapando, President of the Nairobi Junior Chamber of Commerce and Director of the Global Peace Service Alliance-Kenya, and Becky Gitonga, a Kenyan national and Atlas Corps Fellow with Service for Peace in Washington, spoke to representatives from the Peace Corps, the U.S. State Department, and U.S. Agency for International Development at the luncheon, just blocks from the White House. More
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The Mindanao Peace Initiative
Building on the foundation of the Global Peace Festivals in Manila and Mindanao, a coalition of partners launched the Mindanao Peace Initiative at a gathering in the Philippine House of Representatives and in cities across Mindanao in late February and early March 2009.
The initiative is chaired by Dr. Estrella Abid Babano, Director for the Department of Education in Region 10, and co-chaired by Father Benjamin Beltran, Director of the Sandiwaan Foundation in Lanao Del Norte in Mindanao. The Mindanao Peace coalition also includes representatives of Muslim, Christian, and indigenous communities, the Armed Forces, business, academia, and youth organizations. Learn more
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