Friends Peace Teams (FPT) is a Spirit-led organization that creates spaces for truth-telling, dialogue, healing, and nonviolent action for justice in 20 countries. In regional teams on five continents, people of many different faiths, ethnicities, and cultures work together to create enduring cultures of peace.
The Europe regional team builds skills among justice and peace workers in Ukraine, the North Caucasus, and Iraq through holding Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) workshops and offering psycho-social support to people displaced by war.
In five Latin American countries with persistent inequalities and violence, Peacebuilding en las Américas conducts AVP and Power of Goodness workshops to support families and individuals in crisis.
In the African Great Lakes region, FPT has programs for healing ethnic divisions and trauma for refugees from wars in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Programs also support economic empowerment, women’s health, and education for English literacy and agriculture.
The Asia–West Pacific team continues eco-conscious AVP and Power of Goodness workshops, and programs that support displaced persons from Myanmar (Burma) and build eco-justice projects in the Philippines and Korea.
In North America, the team amplifies Indigenous voices and advocates for land return and healing from genocide, colonization, and forced assimilation, including harms caused by the Quaker Indian Boarding Schools.
FPT will host an online gathering November 13–16 that will be open to the public.
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