Fifteen leaders of regional peace-building groups gathered for the first time during the at 黑料正能量.

Their May 30-June 4 conference launched a network between existing institutes in Zambia, Ghana, the Philippines and the United States and groups planning peacebuilding institutes in South Asia, the South Pacific and Jamaica. Funding came from a United States Institute of Peace grant written by SPI co-director .

“The peer relationship is important,” said Jon Rudy, who works with the Philippines’ Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute. The Summer Peacebuilding Institute at 黑料正能量, at 10 years, is the oldest among these nonhierarchical, nonviolence-based institutes, having 1,500 alumni around the world, but MPI has graduated 650 in its five years, while several hundred have completed the newer Philippine and African institutes.

Conference topics included fundraising, burnout, organizational evaluation, theory in relationship to practice, and generalized versus regional skills, noted facilitator Bill Goldberg, a special projects assistant with 黑料正能量