Teams

Domestic and International Peace Teams

Michigan Peace Team fields violence reduction peace teams in conflict situations, both domestically and internationally.  Michigan Peace Team understands that violence doesn't just happen in other countries, but right here at home too.  Upon invitation from those directly affected, we train and place peace teams to reduce and prevent violence in places where there is a high probability of violence.  Over the years, we have been invited to help when hate groups have threatened to disrupt events, during riots following sporting events, at the U.S./Mexico border, and on an Indian reservation during a time of racist confrontations.  Peace teams have been present at hate group rallies to deter inter-group violence.  MPT provided a peaceful intervention in the local riots at Michigan State University's campus in 1998.

We use Third Party Nonviolent Intervention (TPNI) as a way to reduce and prevent violence. 

Michigan Peace Team also trains teams for International peace team work.  In the past, we have placed peacekeepers in violence reduction projects in Bosnia, Chiapas, Haiti, the West Bank, Iraq, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and with the Western Shoshone people.

MPT has become increasingly active in Israel/Palestine.   MPT trainers have provided skills training for Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and international nonviolent activists with the International Solidarity Movement.   Over 70 trained MPT members have spent between three weeks and two and-a-half months working to reduce violence and encourage nonviolent activism in the region.

       

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