Friends Peace Teams welcomes…
Quakers to support one another in long-term justice and peace ministries. Find inspiration in reading and sharing our news with your monthly or yearly meeting or request a speaker. Subscribe to Our Newsletters | Request a Speaker | Join a Regional Team | Join a Global Support Team.
Justice and peace workers from many backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs. You can facilitate workshops, share your message and news, request support, become an extended volunteer, or collaborate with others on specific concerns. Write a Statement of Conscience | Join a Regional Team.
Supporters and donors of justice and peace ministries and programs. Volunteer on Global Support Teams, donate for activities, or become a sustainer for a region or a ministry or program. Donate | Join a Global Support Team.
Student Interns engaged in research and experiential learning, connect with justice and peace workers around the world, ask your school about internships, or design your own project or internship. Read examples of internships below.
Yearly Meeting Representatives to the Friends Peace Teams. Share our news with your Yearly Meeting and your Yearly Meeting’s witness with others. Let Friends know that they can come and connect with others on areas of their concern. Join a Regional Team.
People working for justice and peace in their own communities are encouraged to find a companion at home who shares a commitment to being inwardly guided, testing discernment, transforming your personal and public lives, and bearing witness. Meet regularly every 1-3 weeks, give each other equal time, read and share our news for inspiration, attend training, and support each others’ actions. This might lead to starting your own local Peace Team to take action at home or support for a team abroad. You may look into participating in a local Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) group, or joining the online Storybook Review Team or the Power of Goodness monthly consultation for AVP facilitators. See Events.
We encourage everyone to attend an AVP for Justice and Peace workshop and participate in Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples workshops and webinars. Specific dates may be found at Events.
As a volunteer network, we depend on your prayers, abiding concern, ministries, word of mouth, support skills, and donations. Send a letter of interest or inquiry to office@friendspeaceteams.org.
Connect online and in print
Like us on Facebook or YouTube
Subscribe to PeaceWays and Epistles by making a donation (any amount).
Read the Website get to know ministries, global regions, or areas of work. Subscribe to Email News
Research the Website
Explore the Friends Peace Teams website to learn about Quaker justice and peace work.
Research specific regions on “Where We Work” or topics on “What We Do” on the homepage.
Host a Speaker
Invite a speaker — your Yearly Meeting Representative, Regional Team member, or someone from a particular FPT program or ministry — to offer an interactive presentation to your meeting, church, or school.
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Make Connections
Register online for events at friendspeaceteams.org/upcoming-events.
Be a Local Contact to share e-news, epistles, and PeaceWays with your meeting, church, or school groups and newsletters or local newspaper. Order additional free copies of PeaceWays to share.
Interview FPT peace and justice activists for research or writing projects. We’re living people! Request email or WhatsApp contacts from office@friendspeaceteams.org.
Volunteer
Contact FPT Volunteer Coordinators to explore interests, needs, and opportunities.
Join a Regional Team in your area of the world that meets monthly to listen, offer feedback, discern, and do occasional tasks.
African Great Lakes, Asia West Pacific, Eastern Europe, Latin America, or North America.
Join a Global Support Team that meets monthly to offer your skills or develop skills.
Communications, Finance/Legal, Nominations/Org, Peace Ministries, Resource Sharing.
Attend an AVP Workshop
Seek out Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) workshops in your local area or region, or invite a team to offer workshops in your area. Search for a local group at https://avp.international or https://avpusa.org. This is a great entry orientation for Friends Peace Teams.
Form a Local Peace Team
Organize volunteers in your community or in your Monthly or Yearly Meeting to read news, discuss Quaker witness in the world, share testimonies, advocate for justice and peace, organize outreach and support, or other activities as led.
Become a Yearly Meeting Representative
Offer to serve as your Yearly Meeting Representative or support your YM Representative(s) in sharing news with your Yearly and Monthly Meetings and bringing their news to others.
Read Stories and Books
Read Power of Goodness stories of peace and nonviolence.
Read Peace Library books encouraging justice and peace with nature and humanity.
Recommended children’s books for the Peace Libraries, especially in English and Spanish
Join Basic Practices Events
Register for Quaker Practice Grounding Justice & Peace Work: two-hour monthly study group, contact.
Register for AVP Cultures of Justice and Peace Regional Workshop Series: workshop practice experiencing community and practicing skills in transforming power, nonviolence, trauma resiliency, liberation from oppression, and discerning a consensus of conscience (9 hour basic, plus 3-6 hour special topic sessions – 48 hours total).
Become a facilitator
Volunteer to participate in, learn, and train to facilitate:
- Alternatives to Violence Project Workshops (AVP)
- AVP – Cultures of Justice and Peace Special Topic Series
- Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities (HROC)
- Peer Mediation
- Power of Goodness – AVP mini-workshops
- Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples workshops
Request Workshop
Request Training sessions or facilitator coaching to start a club, strengthen existing clubs, or add to a course in your program.
Join Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples (TRR) Events
See the TRR web page and contact the TRR program coordinator to learn more about these programs.
Register for an online “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change” Workshop: a 2-hour interactive workshop tracing the historic and ongoing effects of the Doctrine of Discovery.
Request a “Re-Discovering America” Workshop: a 1-hour workshop for 6-12 grade students on the history of colonization and its ongoing impacts on Native Americans.
Register for “The Quaker Indigenous Boarding Schools: A Call for Accountability and Healing”: a 2-hour slide presentation and discussion on what this history means to Quakers and Native Americans today.
Register for “The Indigenous Boarding Schools and Multigenerational Trauma”: a 1.5-hour slide presentation and discussion led by a past president of the board of directors of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Register for online Webinars: Hear Native leaders speak about issues of concern to indigenous peoples today. Join them in solidarity for justice and healing
Learn about the truth telling and reparative work of the Quakers and ‘Indian Boarding Schools” Research Network (QIBS).
Online internships can be arranged to fit your program for high school, college, or graduate school. High schools and colleges who want to set up internship opportunities for your students should write a letter of interest to the FPT Internship Coordinator.
High schools, colleges, and graduate schools with an established relationship with Friends Peace Teams may offer customized internships to travel to any of our regions, or offer on-campus online internships. Please direct your students to submit an Internship Inquiry Form. If a match is identified, an online conversation with the mentor and student will be arranged. If both feel clear, a letter of agreement will be written.
Examples of Internships
Justice and Peace Writer: read our news, select a specific person, country, or activity to interview authors and write or ghost-write interviews or articles to publish on the Friends Peace Teams website, the school’s news, and other publications.
2025 Ignite Talk Caroline Yao ’27
Here is a video created by our 2025 intern Caroline Yao from Haverford College about her experiences at Peace Place and Joglo
Stories of Nonviolence and Reconciliation Editor: edit or develop stories of nonviolence, healing, and reconciliation to include in the Power of Goodness Story Collection.
Oral Histories Documentarian: prepare and carry out oral history interviews, video record, transcribe the interview, and write an article for the oral history collection.
Justice and Peace Dialogue Coordinator: organize and publicize an online event to highlight justice and peace workers from a specific region, assisting in written or video documentation of their message, and serving as registrar and tech host.
Peace Libraries Storybook Reviewer: seek storybooks on themes of creating cultures of justice and peace at each reading books and meet with reviewers to write formal reviews of storybooks for justice and peace in English (or Spanish).
Power of Goodness Team: Two to three AVP facilitators may collaborate on starting your own local Power of Goodness Team to offer 1.5 hour AVP mini-workshops organized around a theme and a story, and meet with a global consultation team monthly.
Sponsor a Peace Worker
Bring your justice and peace ministries to the Peace Ministries Team to share with us, and if mutually discerned, to share through our networks and potentially raise resources for your ministry.
Sponsor a justice or peace worker reading their news, offering questions and feedback, ghost writing news, assisting with their fundraising to attend a regional peace training and support their peace activities.
Host a Fundraiser for a specific ministry. Plan a bake sale, storytelling, house party, soup and bread dinner, concert, collection box, or speaking event.
Visit a Region by speaking directly to the Regional Team where you would like to visit to inquire about current opportunities.
Offer Extended Service. Regional Teams work with volunteers to match skills to opportunities. Volunteers are responsible to cover your own transportation and personal expenses for the duration of your stay.