Peaceforce Oregon is a member of the United States Nonviolent Peaceforce Chapter Association (USNPCA). Through our membership in USNPCA our chapter is a constituted Member Organization of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. This association allows our chapter members to participate and be a voting member of NP on such important items as long-term organizational plans and the approval and changes to the Nonviolent Peaceforce's by-laws. Our mission is to support the important work being done by Nonviolent Peaceforce by offering training, outreach, fundraising and community for those dedicated to nonviolence.
Join us on Facebook
Submitted by tshofner on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 19:35.Do you have a Facebook profile - by adding our group you have yet another way to stay informed of events. It's also a great way to stay connected to each other. For example, our faounding member Michele Darr has been participating in a hunger strike and vigil on the steps of the capitol building in Salem in protest of the planned deployment of Oregon Guard members. Visit our Facebook Group to read the latest.
Kidnapped Nonviolent Peaceforce Civilian Peacekeeper Released
BRUSSELS, Belgium – June 03, 2009 – Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is pleased to share today the release of Mr. Umar Jaleel, an NP international civilian peacekeeper working on Basilan Island in the Mindanao region of the Philippines who was kidnapped from the NP residence by a group of armed men on Friday, Feb. 13. Jaleel is alive and is currently en route to medical facilities. He was released today at 1245 UTC near the vicinity of Tipo Tipo on Basilan.
A Letter From an NP Sri Lankan Peaceworker
Submitted by tshofner on Sat, 05/16/2009 - 19:10.12 May 2009
Dear Friends,
As a recently returned five year veteran peacekeeper in Sri Lanka, I want to give you an update on the situation there.
Domestic Peace Teams - March's Adventure in Nonviolence
Submitted by tshofner on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 02:48.03/27/2009 - 19:00
03/27/2009 - 21:00
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Amy will describe her experience with Michigan Peace Team and guide us through a discussion about what it means to work on a peace team both domestically and abroad. She will explain how a peace team can help protestors by protecting their right to civil disobedience and also their lives. Michigan Peace Team has been a presence at KKK rally’s, Gay Pride events, and the Republican National Convention. They have also sent teams abroad to places like Bosnia, Chiapas, Haiti, the West Bank, and Iraq.
NP Member Kidnapped
Submitted by tshofner on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 18:26.Dear USNPCA, below is the information. Updates are being posted on the NP website. It would be very helpful if we don't disrupt the NP office with questions as they deal with this situation. Should the Emergency Response Network be activated, we will share that information immediately. As Mel writes, what we can do now is keep Umar Jaleel and his family in our "prayers, thoughts, and mediations." Thanks, Faith
0615 UTC
13 February 2009
My Dear Friends and Colleagues:
I am writing to you with sad and disturbing news. Early on February 13,
Adventures in Nonviolence - An Evening with author Parke Burgess
Submitted by tshofner on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 13:52.02/20/2009 - 19:00
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This event includes a reception catered by Flying Cat Coffee Co
Update from Mindanao, 22 August 2008
Submitted by tshofner on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 18:56.22 August 2008
Mindanao
Mel Duncan
Accompanying the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Mindanao
Submitted by tshofner on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 18:54.August 21, 2008
On August 8, a commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) occupied 20 barangays (communities) in the North Cotabato province of Mindanao. Three days earlier the official signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) which would have expanded areas in the autonomous Moro region was blocked by a temporary restraining order issued by the Philippine Supreme Court. The MOA had been negotiated by the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the MILF for about three years.
NVP one of two NGOs still working in Mindanao
Submitted by tshofner on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 18:39.As this news report says, the Nonviolent Peaceforce is one of only two NGOs
still working in the Mindanao area to help civilians.
Thousands flee war zones in North Cotabato; fighting now in 4 towns
Romy Elusfa and Sittie Sundang /MindaNews
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:02
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/11 August) -- At least 4,000 families have been forced
to leave their homes and farmlands due to renewed hostilities in the towns of
Midsayap, Aleosan and Pigcawayan, North Cotabato between government forces and
the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Nonviolent Peaceforce Executive Director, Mel Duncan, on Chicago Public Radio
Submitted by tshofner on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 21:02.Nonviolent Peaceforce Executive Director, Mel Duncan, speaks about creating a civilian nonviolent peaceforce on Chicago Public Radio. Click here to go to the Chicago Public Radio website and listen to Mel along with Ann Frisch, a former Nonviolent Peaceforce - Guatemala field team member.
