Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: jimfussell1@gmail.com Jim is the Research Director of the Educators Institute for Human Rights. He has studied nonviolence for social change with George Lahey, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and the late Narayan Desai. A Quaker with a degree in history form Earlham College, Jim has organized in-depth study […]
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Level of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: eafiorentino17@gmail.com This past winter, Emily completed Level I training in Selma and had an intense connection to nonviolence, as a guiding force in her life that she had been lacking before. She thinks that nonviolence helped her see and name the beliefs and behaviors she values. In the few […]
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Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: wewb1555@gmail.com After witnessing the tragedy of the Sandy Hook massacre as a teacher in 2012, I retired in 2014 from 32 years of teaching to take my pain and make propane! My personal mission is to create peaceful school communities using the tools of nonviolence and […]
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Location: USALevel of Training: (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: Rfbenton1@comcast.net I am excited to be one of the first Level I trainers from Texas…the Lone Star State is long overdue! Being a BOI (Born on the Island) native of Galveston, Texas, I am a fan of salt water, sun and sand between my toes. My […]
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Location: Pakistan Level of Training: (Level II – 2018) Scholarship(s): The 2018 Bruce Tancrell Memorial Scholarship About: Aamir Amjad is an accomplished development specialist and public policy advocate, with a Master’s degree in Political Science and a Master of Philosophy (M. Phil.) in Peace and Conflict Studies from the National Defense University (NDU) in Islamabad, […]
Continue reading "Aamir Amjad"Location: USALevel of Training: (Level I – 2018) & (Level II – 2018)Contact Information: alix.investments@gmail.com
Continue reading "Samuel Alix"Location: LiberiaLevel of Training: (Level I – 2018)Contact Information: zayzay731@yahoo.com As a Lutheran pastor living in a post conflict country where the overwhelming need for peace building and mediation is still prevalent, Mulbah says it is essential for him to gain as much knowledge to enhance and maintain peaceful co-existence. He states, “several other pastors […]
Continue reading "Mulbah Zayzay"Location: IndiaLevel of Training: (Level I – 2018)Contact Information: yangkyithinley@yahoo.com Thinley is a nurse at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in India. She was born in a Tibetan Buddhist family and the very essence of her foundation is nonviolence. Peace and nonviolence has always been central to her life since the day she was born. […]
Continue reading "Thinley Yangkyi"Location: IndiaLevel of Training: (Level I – 2018)Contact Information: ttsezin@gmail.com Tenzin is a teacher in the Sambhota Tibetan School in India. He has learned that Martin Luther King was an American activist, famously known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience in the US. His main […]
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