The purpose of Friends Peace Teams is to invite, challenge, and empower individual Friends and Friends churches and meetings to participate in Spirit-led peace team work locally and internationally.
Peace Teams are groups of people working together in places and times of conflict for reconciliation, justice, and the promotion of nonviolence
Friends Peace Teams organizes peace teams, promotes participation in peace teams among Friends, and helps local Friends meetings and Friends churches engage in peace work It distributes printed materials, carries out publicity work, raises funds, make presentations; and organize training sessions, conferences and workshops.
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Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led organization working around the world to develop long-term relationships with communities in conflict to create programs for peacebuilding, healing and reconciliation. FPT’s programs build on extensive Quaker experience combining practical and spiritual aspects of conflict resolution. |
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We use processes and methods that respect individuals and help conflicting groups through such programs as the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP], trauma healing, community reconciliation, and peace education. In all of these programs, we bring together people or groups-in-conflict from different ethnic, political, gender, religious, and/or other conflicting groups. |
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Friends Peace Teams is a network of individuals and organizations dedicated to practicing and promoting Quaker Peacemaking philosopies and methods. The FPT family includes partners, working group members, active yearly meeting members, donors, volunteers, staff, and others. |
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