Switzerland - The Graduate Institute, Geneva
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PLOWSHARES INSTITUTE<br />
Address<br />
Plowshares <strong>Institute</strong>, Box 243, 809 Hopmeadow<br />
St., Simsbury, CT 06070, UK<br />
Phone (860) 651-4304<br />
Fax (860) 651-4305<br />
Web www.plowsharesinstitute.org<br />
E-Mail plowshares@plowsharesinstitute.org<br />
Category Dialogue<br />
MISSION STATEMENT<br />
Plowshares <strong>Institute</strong> contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world community through research and education, service<br />
to developing communities, and innovative training in conflict transformation and peacebuilding.<br />
Research identifies critical social, economic, and religious issues that threaten the harmony and sustainability of a humane society<br />
and presents possible options for change.<br />
Education exposes the "non-poor" to global interdependence and energizes them to address issues of injustice within their<br />
organizations and individual lifestyles.<br />
Training of local decision makers and leaders equips them to teach their constituencies to use the energy of conflict for positive<br />
structural change and to intervene in the problems that threaten their communities.<br />
Partnerships with international service organizations protect human rights, enhance democratic participation, and expand options<br />
for sustainable development.<br />
Founding year 1981<br />
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES<br />
� Transforming conflicts through peacebuilding initiatives<br />
Conflict transformation training based on moral, spiritual, and cultural values equips community leaders with skills to<br />
constructively address conflicts.<br />
� Developing innovative approaches to conflict and peace education<br />
Plowshares generates new ideas and approaches and disseminates these to others in the peacebuilding and education<br />
fields through research and writing.<br />
� Increasing domestic awareness of global interdependence<br />
Plowshares staff provide speaking, teaching, and preaching opportunities to educate civic and religious groups. Faithbased<br />
approaches emphasize global interdependence, visions for global peace, and training in peacebuilding and the case<br />
method.<br />
� Decision makers in project areas are exposed to new and effective approaches to resolving conflict.<br />
In a group of some 40 participants, almost all significantly widen their community network; most are able to become a<br />
“mediating presence” in their areas of influence, modelling new approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding;<br />
and a smaller number from each session will move to dedicate considerable time to teach others the skills and<br />
approaches. Currently, more than 500 community and religious leaders participate in Plowshares-based conflict<br />
transformation seminars each year in the U.S. and overseas, and some 50 voluntarily make major time commitments to<br />
active peacebuilding roles in mediation and/or teaching.<br />
� Southeast Asia: In response to escalating violence and terrorism in Indonesia, Plowshares and the Indonesian Ministry