Sunday Forum with Mel Duncan from Nonviolent Peaceforce

Date: September 29, 2014

Mel Duncan, co-founder and director of advocacy and outreach for Nonviolent Peaceforce, will spark your moral imagination by describing how well-trained and disciplined nonviolent peacekeepers effectively help make peace without introducing more guns. As today’s headlines herald war, Mel will illustrate alternatives ways to transform violent conflict. (Published Sept. 29, 2014) Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), an international non-government organization, provides direct protection to civilians caught in violent conflict and works with local organizations to reduce further outbreaks of violence.

Now entering its second decade, NP currently has programs in South Sudan, the Mindanao region of the Philippines, South Caucasus and in Myanmar. NP’s unarmed civilian peacekeepers are from many nations, and live and work among conflict affected communities, facilitating violence reduction by engaging constructively with all sides to the conflict and utilizing those relationships to change behaviors. While coming from all major faiths, NP’s peacekeepers practically demonstrate courageous and compassionate love, recognizing the sacredness of human life in some of the most violent places on our planet.

Sunday Forum with Mel Duncan from Nonviolent Peaceforce

Plymouth Congregational Church (Jackman Room)
1900 NICOLLET AVE. at FRANKLIN, Minneapolis
October 5th, 9-10 a.m.

You can protect civilians who are living in or fleeing violent conflict. Your contribution will transform the world's response to conflict.

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