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Asia West Pacific2026-03-18T08:23:37-04:00
Asia West Pacific supports peace workers in areas that suffer from global exploitation and militarism, and work together to create cultures of peace and justice. We get to know ourselves by entering other worlds—worlds very different from our own—challenging global patterns of oppression, discovering our common humanity, and celebrating our rich cultural and ethnic diversity. We thank the Jan de Voogd Peace Fund in supporting the local Power of Goodness Teams in our commitment for a multi-lingual-rich environment.
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We welcome volunteers who believe peace is possible to join the AWP Working Group to:

  • Maintain reliable support to people called to work for cultures of peace and justice in Asia West Pacific
  • Identify activities that preserve peace and justice in the manner of Friends
  • Share their stories
  • Support multilingual-rich environments. 

We share a faith, across religion, class and culture, in the power of the Living Spirit to give life, joy, peace, and prosperity through love, integrity and compassionate justice among people who live in simplicity and equality. We make no enemies, take no sides; we seek the liberty of living in accord with love and conscience. We build friendships, person-to-person, across a diversity of ages, cultures, religions, and backgrounds, among people committed to living peacefully, guided by our best mutual discernment and a set of common agreements:

  •     Respect and affirm self and others; no put downs or put ups.
  •     Stop, listen, don’t interrupt.
  •     Speak simply and honestly, without fear of mistakes.
  •     Tell your own stories, not others’ without permission.
  •     Be authentic and open to change.
  •     Ask for and give hospitality, feedback, and help.
  •     Tend emotions, then speak directly to someone if in dispute.    
  •     Build relationships with people similar and different from myself.
  •     Use what I need and share the rest, fairly.
  •     Volunteer myself only, not others.
  •     Exercise your rights to pass, consultation, and privacy.
  •     Care for each person, the group, community and natural world.
  •     Live in integrity with life’s transforming power.

We make decisions based on mutual discernment. Discernment requires us to develop our experience with the Spirit in relationships among people in a particular ecological location. We share the practices of stopping, discharging emotion, speaking clearly, and exchanging spiritual feedback. We rely on the discernment of the person or people connected to the real, living Spirit in the situation. They, in turn, test their discernment with at least three people on their team, three people knowledgeable about the action, and three people on the Working Group, clearly taking into account their integrating feedback. They share news about what they do and the decisions they make, soliciting and integrating additional feedback as the work unfolds. For significant or controversial decisions, we seek the discernment of the entire Working Group over at least two monthly meetings. 

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August 12th, 2026|Alternatives to Violence Project, Articles, Asia West Pacific, Cultures of Justice and Peace, Peace Libraries, Philippines|

Asia West Pacific People

Clerk, Rosie Remmerswaal, Shannon Lee
Recording Clerk/News Editor, Janet Anderson
Coordinator, Kins Aparece
Treasurer,AU and US  Mark Hoover-US, Ann Britton-AU
Finance (Finance-US see NAm) AU Ann Britton, Taisoo Kim Watson, Anne Heather, Valerie Joy
Australia Public Officer, Heather Saville
Nominations, AWP Valerie Joy, John Michaelis, Keaka, Anne Heather, Cassie Camman
Country Coordinators, Petrus, Nanik, Indonesia; Novi Selly and Sint, West Papua; Alma “Kins” Aparece, Philippines; Melanie Siaw, Malaysia; Jungjoo Gang Park, Korea; Ram Paudel, Nepal; Kwi, Myanmar/Burma
Program Coordinators/Contacts, Nanik, Schools and Gardens; Ratih Puspito Rini and Raissa Avery Marfa, AKI Longcanaya Peace Libraries; Kins Aparece, Petrus, Selly Novi, Raissa Avery Marfa, Power of Goodness Team Leaders
Other Members/YM Reps, Nadine Hoover (NYYM Rep), Valerie Joy, Fenna Mandolang, Deb Wood, John Michaelis, Janet Anderson (NYM Rep)
Advisors Vidya, Chuck Esser, Rosie Remmerswaal, Liz Remmerswaal

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