QPSW placements and peaceworkers
Quaker Peace & Social Witness provides one-year opportunities in the UK and overseas with voluntary organisations that work for peace at local, national and international level.
All one-year workers write journal letters three times a year about their experiences. Sign up to receive the journal letters using the sign-up box on the journal letters web page.
The UK peaceworkers for 2009-2010 are:
Pia Dawson, Crisis Action (CA)
Pia’s primary focus is to research potential partners amongst key African organisations and individuals, assessing and proposing opportunities for expanding CA’s engagement with African civil society. She also researches for policy and comparative learning purposes based on CA programmes and literature.
Mary Dobbing, Conciliation Resources (CR)
Mary is researching the internet relevance and impact of CR’s publication Accord and developing a strategy to improve it. She also provides a range of research, administrative and logistical support to CR’s Policy & Comparative Learning and West Africa teams, including her own discrete projects.
Daniel Edge, Christian Muslim Forum
Daniel leads the Forum’s Safe Spaces project. This includes mosque-church twinning and organising a range of events such as Campus Encounters at universities, men’s retreats, spiritual guidance/regional leaders’ gatherings, and interfaith local/regional/city groups and activities. He also provides support for a wide range of other Forum projects.
http://www.christianmuslimforum.org/
Christopher Wood, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CCND).
Chris spends 3-days a week with CND as part of the campaigns team working for the first six months of his year on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, and the Trident replacement campaign for the second six months. In the 2-days a week with CCND he has specific responsibility for researching and setting up an interfaith network, People of Faith, United for Peace.
The programme assistants at Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva for 2009-2010 are:
Holly Mason White is the programme assistant at QUNO Geneva working on the human rights and refugees programme. Within the programme, Holly will be working on three key areas - namely migration, refugees and internally displaced persons; women in prison and the children of prisoners; and the right of conscientious objection to military service.
Tom Richardson is the programme assistant at QUNO Geneva working on the peace and disarmament programme. Tom will assist with QUNO’s work on the cyclical relationship between armed violence and development, connecting members of the New York and Geneva peacebuilding communities, and aiding multilateral disarmament processes.
The one-year workers in Burundi for 2009-2010 are:
Cathrin Mair Daniel is AFSC's Partners' institutional capacity program officer in Bujumbura, Burundi. She is working with local groups to improve their peacebuilding projects by encouraging learning and monitoring.
Ruth Simpson is AFSC's policy and advocacy program officer in Bujumbura, Burundi. She is supporting grassroots groups in developing their advocacy expertise and connecting with policy makers.