Peaceworker
A peaceworker is an individual or member of an organization that undertakes to resolve violent conflict, prevent the rise of new violent conflicts, and rebuild societies damaged by war.
The term peaceworker is usually reserved for civilian, unarmed members of non-governmental organizations. Peacework is also carried out by many armed organizations such as the UN, but armed personnel are seldom called peaceworkers.
Peacework
Peaceworker duties include the following:
- Bringing conflicting parties together, opening channels of communication and helping to broker a ceasefire or peace agreement
- Monitoring voting booths, providing technical expertise and other forms of support in order to help ensure a free and fair electioneering environment
- Providing protective accompaniment of people at risk, monitoring borders and other actions for stabilizing preserve ceasefire agreements and preserving human life
- Reintegrating ex-combatants into society
- Promoting a respect for human rights within the local and national legal system, strengthening local institutions and civil society organizations that defend human rights
Peaceworker training
Peaceworker training and guidance are provided by organizations such as International Alert. University-provided Peace and conflict studies courses also provide valuable and relevant knowledge. As peace work can utilize a very wide variety of skills, it allows those with established, unrelated careers to take up peace work without having to abandon what they have already learned.
See also
- List of peace activists
- Peacebuilding
- Peacekeeping
- Peacemaking
- Peace movement
- Human rights
Peaceworker organizations
Any organization dedicated to human rights, humanitarian aid and conflict management could be said to employ peace workers. The following is just a small sample of the dozens of organizations worldwide that provide these services.
- Nonviolent Peaceforce
- International Alert
- Peace Brigades International
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
External links
- International Alert training webpage
- peacework.org
- University of Bradford: Department of Peace Studies
- The ARCA Project: A European peaceworker training network
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- Anti-nuclear organizations
- Anti-war movement
- Anti-war organizations
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
- Coalition of Women for Peace
- Code Pink
- Conscientious objectors
- Counterculture
- Culture of Peace
- ECOPEACE Party
- Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
- Iraq War resisters in Canada
- List of pacifist organisations
- List of peace activists
- New Socialist Party of Japan
- Pacifist Socialist Party
- Peace and conflict studies
- Peace camp
- Peace churches
- Peace commission
- Peace conference
- Peace congress
- Peace education
- Peace movement
- Peace psychology
- Peace treaty
- Peaceworker
- React, Include, Recycle
- Social Democratic Party (Japan)
- Unity
- The Women's Peace Crusade
- War resisters
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Ahimsa
- Anarchism
- Anti-imperialism
- Anti-nuclear movement
- Antimilitarism
- Appeasement
- Christian pacifism
- Deterrence theory
- Direct action
- Finvenkismo
- Green politics
- Hippie
- Isolationism
- Modern-war pacifism
- Non-interventionism
- Nonkilling
- Nonviolence
- Pacificism
- Pacifism
- Peace
- Satyagraha
- Soviet influence on the peace movement
- Testimony of peace
- World peace
- Art
- Books
- Concert Yutel for Peace
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Festival for Peace
- Films
- Imagine Piano Peace Project
- International Day of Non-Violence
- International Day of Peace
- Dialogue Among Civilizations
- List of peace prizes
- List of places named Peace
- Monuments and memorials
- Mother's Day Proclamation
- Nobel Peace Prize Concert
- Museums
- Peace & Love (festival)
- Peace journalism
- Peace One Day
- Plays
- Promoting Enduring Peace
- Show of Peace Concert
- Songs
- Symbols
- The Non-Violence Project
- University for Peace
- World Peace Bell Association
- Women in Black
- World March for Peace and Nonviolence
- 1991–1992 anti-war protests in Belgrade
- Bed-In
- Central Park be-ins
- Civil disobedience
- Conflict resolution
- Counter-recruitment
- De-escalation
- Demilitarisation
- Department of Peace
- Desertion
- Draft evasion
- Die-in
- Economic sanctions
- Flower power
- Global Day of Action on Military Spending
- Human Be-In
- Lesson of Munich
- "Make love, not war"
- Non-aggression principle
- Nonviolent resistance
- Non Violent Resistance (psychological intervention)
- Peace walk
- Peacebuilding
- Refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces
- "Soldiers are murderers"
- Swords to ploughshares
- Teach-in
- "The whole world is watching"
- Third Party Non-violent Intervention
- "Turn the other cheek"
- "Violence begets violence"
- War tax resisters
wars or their aspects
- War of 1812 (UK; US)
- American Civil War
- Second Boer War
- World War I
- World War II
- Vietnam War
- War on Terror
- Iraq War
- Afghanistan War
- Military action in Iran
- Sri Lankan Civil War
- 2011 intervention in Libya
- Anti-war protests in Russia (2014)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Landmines
- Military taxation
- Nuclear disarmament
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Germany
- Israel
- Japan
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir
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