Creating Possibilities Despite Compounding and Escalating Global Crises by Peace Science Digest

creating possibilities despite compounding

November 2022 | TRUSTEE DOCKET

and escalating global crises

TRUSTEE DOCKET

This confidential report to the Jubitz Family Foundation trustees and team mem bers is designed to keep you informed of our strategy, our programs, and our prog ress toward our vision of a world beyond war where humanity is united and a global system of peace with justice prevails for current and future generations. It is a bold vision guided by a mission statement of transforming the global peace and security paradigm to one that is built around viable alternatives to war and all forms of polit ical violence. To achieve this we research, advocate for, and advance knowledge on practices that show the effectiveness of nonviolence and challenge militarism.

Thank you for your continued support. At the War Prevention Initiative, we are committed peace professionals using resources wisely to work ourselves out of a job when we have achieved a world beyond war.

November 2022

Dear Betsy, Kathy, Sarah, and Al,

In our time together, which lasts already more than a decade, we were often inspired by what were considered global trends that collectively moved us away from wars and violence and to ward peace. We took those developments not as signals for complacency, but as calls to action to participate in the creation of a new paradigm of a world without war.

In the current moment, we are forcefully reminded of the dominant paradigm of war, violence, injustice, and planetary destruction. I just returned from the annual meeting of the Global Lead ership Foundation, an organization built around 44 members “who as former Heads of State or Government and distinguished leaders have something to offer current world leaders because they have first-hand experience of the difficulties of leadership.” Three moments of this meet ing are notable. First, when GLF Chair Helen Clark opened the annual meeting, she framed the state of the world as one with compounding and escalating crises. Second, former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin suggested that world peace was deteriorating, that all wars were connected, and that the “hyper threat” becomes possible. Lastly, George Robertson, the former NATO Secretary General told me at breakfast: “Well, I’m not here to cheer you up!”

The war in Ukraine, now in its ninth month, has elevated militarized security, dramatically in creased the danger of the use of nuclear weapons, and led to calls for more domestic fossil fuel exploration which contributes to climate change. White supremacy and racism drive powerful political agendas that threaten democracies at home and abroad. Misinformation and propa ganda polarize identity groups, close spaces for civil society actors, and cast doubts on different forms of exploitation and inequality, thus sustaining injustices. Those issues are key concerns in the US and the world: they are existential threats that require immediate and full focus, orga nizing, and political power for swift and sustained action.

The one constant in these interrelated challenges is militarism. When we talk about “preventing all War” (capital W), we don’t get stuck only in addressing concerns about the military, military spending, or a neat separation between foreign and domestic policy. We look at notions of secu rity through the lens of basic human needs – our security depends on everybody else’s security.

“I’m not here to cheer you up”creating possibilities despite compounding and escalating global crises

Redefining and reconfiguring the global security infrastructure, which currently is built on force and domination, is an imperative paradigm shift for us to work towards. We continue operating with a bold vision of a world beyond war where humanity is united and a global system of peace with justice prevails for current and future generations. Our areas of focus of demilitarizing security and managing conflict without violence remain steadfast for two primary reasons: (1) in discourse and practice, militarism goes largely unquestioned and it is widely assumed that security is achieved through militarized approaches; violence is considered acceptable and effective; (2) by relentlessly providing feasible alternatives to war and violence ranging from operational conflict management/prevention to deep and structural peacebuilding, authentic security can be achieved.

The overwhelming nature of U.S. militarism as the obstacle to change shows us where we must utilize our time, talents, and energy. Our key policy areas focus on existential threats to every one’s security (nuclear weapons, climate change). Paradigm transforming areas of change include dismantling U.S militarism and racism while offering an alternative through developing a feminist foreign policy.

What’s Ahead

As you will see throughout the remainder of Trustee Docket, our work is informed by our vi sion, the big picture, the moment we are in, and our role in the larger community of practice. We don’t talk about hope but seek to create possibilities. We are profoundly grateful and privileged to call the War Prevention Initiative of the Jubitz Family Foundation our organizational home where we can prosper as peace professionals and bring our full selves as individuals who want to change the world. One day at a time.

I want to end this note by remembering our dear friend and co-conspirator Ray Jubitz. In our orga nizational context, he was the one pushing us to contemplate perspectives that we might have missed and which might be in the way of getting our thoughts heard. One of Ray’s last emails to me read: Your response makes so much sense, is articulate and hits all the fears that I have for building a peace movement even when all appears dire. I look forward to the special edition.

Peace out, RGJ

Peace out, Ray! We miss you and will continue to articulate pathways forward and contribute to strengthening the peace movement even in times of global crises.

On behalf of our WPI team - Kelsey, Molly, Adam, and myself - thank you for your continued trust and support.

Patrick

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A NOTE ON ADMINISTRATION

WPI continued making excellent progress in 2022 despite disruptive staff changes and on-going national/global political turmoil. We continued to refine our work around our areas of focus and deepen our engagement in our three policy areas of focus (nuclear weapons, climate change, fem inist foreign policy). We successfully created an Advisory Committee to help deepen our engage ment in our areas of focus while being cognizant of our dual role are partners and funders. Erica Belfi, our Quaker Volunteer Service “Ray Jubitz Peace Fellow”, continued her fellowship until June 2022 and continued a part-time basis for July and August before entering law school in September.

Erica’s contributions improved our communications platforms by facilitating our website revi sion, revamping our social media branding, and producing several high-quality research outputs. We opted out of the QVS fellow program for this year because we did not find candidates of a similar caliber as Erica. Kristin Henderson left the organization in July for a researcher position with the State of Oregon. Kelsey welcomed a new baby in July and returned to work in mid-Oc tober 2022. The workflow slowed as result of Kristin unexpected departure and Kelsey’s planned maternity leave.

Our former intern, Adam Zikri, received his U.S. visa and green card in 2022 and has returned to our organization as an independent contractor. Our team continues to greatly benefit from the contributions and insights that Molly Wallace provides to WPI’s work, including on the Peace Science Digest. We also welcomed Ray Matsumiya. In his role as Senior Fellow, Ray acts as a liaison between the programmatic WPI work and all areas of engagement with Rotary/Rotarians.

All of this could not be done without Lauren Forman, who fosters an organizational administra tive environment that makes our work possible.

THE APPROACH TO OUR WORK

In this section, we hope to explain in its briefest form how we approach our work in general terms.

First, our two areas of focus operate on the structural and operational levels of peace and security issues.

Second, we use a variety of outputs to inform, educate, and activate our audiences on peace and security issues through the lens of our areas of focus. The current outputs are:

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In those outputs, we integrate research (with the goals of strengthening the field, legitimize nonmilitary responses) with education and advocacy pushing the envelope to challenge myths about war and political violence (e.g.: “last resort”; “all other options have been exhausted”; “war is necessary”; “humanitarian intervention”)

Third, we have identified multiple audiences:

Direct: audience groups who we engage with, partner with, and seek behavior change.

Peace and security organizations and networks

Peace and security funders

Think tanks

Lobbying groups

Activists (individuals, organizations, and networks

Rotarians and Rotary International

Indirect: audience groups that we seek behavior change from but seek to influ ence them through our work with direct audience groups.

Elected officials

Government bureaucrats International organizations Social movements

Fourth, we seek outcomes as the bigger picture achievements resulting from our outputs. The outcomes contribute to our stated mission:

• Strengthening the global peace and security field to better acknowledge the role that a militarized understanding of security and militarism play in undermining peacebuild ing. This will take place through our presence in and contribution to our existing net works and audiences and through invitations to new networks. We strive for work and approach to be integrated in content and messaging by other organizations and experts in our field.

• Contributing to creating a culture of peace through our educational outputs, knowledge sharing, and collaboration with Rotarians and directly with Rotary International– informing and educating about alternatives to war and violence is core to this area.

• Establishing a “Greenway”, a Pacific Northwest alternative to the D.C. Beltway, apparatus to reflect the interests and priorities of citizens interested in peace and nonviolence and planetary loyalty.

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Lastly, we want to remind you of the primary roles that each team member plays. We are inten tionally creating a horizontal structure which allows for autonomy, decision-making, and self-re alization of each one of us. At the same time, we have created meeting and communication mechanism that ensure that we are working in close alignment. In our small team environment, we believe this will increase the organizational productivity and draw out our individual talents. Below is a brief description of each team members primary area of work, noting that a small team environment requires flexibility within.

Patrick focuses on the public representation of WPI, the advancement of our content agenda, the establishment and maintenance of high-level partnerships, the Rotary engagement, the JFF peace grantmaking area, budget oversight, JFF board communication, and in his research focus conceptualizes alternatives to war and other forms of political violence.

Kelsey manages the day-to-day operations of WPI, is the Managing Editor of the Peace Science Digest, and focuses on strategic communications, strategic planning, strategic partnerships and in her research focus examines environmental peacebuilding issues.

With Adam we hope to fill a role that merges key areas of Kristin and Erica’s work. He will work on social media communication, website maintenance and posting of outputs, assist in event planning, messaging, and coordination with external partners. We expect him to take on smaller projects independently and demonstrate regular, incremental progress.

Molly is our invaluable Senior Editor for the Peace Science Digest. She has been able to step into roles working with external partners on PSD related issues when needed.

Ray acts as a liaison between the programmatic WPI work and all areas of engagement with Rotary/Rotarians.

Lauren acts as the liaison between WPI and all JFF programs and takes wonderful care of our administrative needs. Lauren’s role, however, goes far beyond the administrative areas she covers. She is the glue that keeps us all together.

THE JOURNEY OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND JUSTICE (DEIJ)

We are moving into our third year of a serious DEIJ journey. The team remains committed, especially now that DEIJ work is not quite as present in the public mind as it was in 2020.

Ongoing specifics are:

• We remain an active member of the Orgsin Solidarity network which emerged as part of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Secu rity (ongoing engagement in Confronting Rac ism and White Supremacy Working Group).

• Continue pursuing DEIJ practices in the peace and security funding space through PSFG membership and Patrick’s role on the Steering Committee.

• Ongoing internal education on the preven tion of racism and discrimination via meetings and an internal resource platform.

• Creating an intentionally truly diverse adviso ry committee.

• Intentionally elevating BIPOC perspectives in our Peace Science Digest

• Intentionally partnering with BIPOC led organizations (e.g., MADRE, WCAPS).

• Research project on racism in U.S. Foreign Policy.

• Participation in the Dismantling Racism and Militarism in U.S. Foreign Policy working group.

• Un-contest on Feminist Foreign Policy built around DEIJ principles.

DEIJ in a nutshell:

Diversity refers to the wide range of identities (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, age, na tionality, religion, disability, sexual orientation). Equity is about the fair treatment, access, and opportunity for all while at the same time striving to eliminate barriers that prevent the full participation of some. Inclusion is about creating an environment in which any individual or group will be welcomed, respect ed, and supported and valued as a fully partici pating member. Justice is based on princi ples of equity and inclusion that encompasses a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable, and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.

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ADVISORY COMMITTEE

We successfully organized our Advisory Committee in 2022. Remarkably, all the individuals that we had identified accepted our invitation to join the committee. From the beginning of 2022 to today, Patrick and Kelsey have had two, one-on-one, virtual meetings with each Committee member with plans for additional meetings before the end of the year. All members of the advisory committee have expressed interest in a full committee meeting, likely in early 2023. The Committee has advised us in topic areas including meaningful partnerships, our research agenda, strategic communications, and internal policies and organizational management.

Carl Bruch, Director of International Programs at the Environmental Law Institute; President of Environmental Peacebuilding Association Dee Choudhary, Senior Partner at Global Zero Obasesam Okoi, Assistant Professor of Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas Asha Asokan, Rotary Peace Fellow, International Peace and Security expert

Diana Duarte, Director of Policy and Strategic Engagement at MADRE

Hardy Merriman, President, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

Joe Bock, Executive Director of the Bethlehem University Foundation

Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies

Maria Stephan, Founder of Horizons Project

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Laicie Heeley, Founding CEO of Inkstick Media

KEY AREAS OF POLICY FOCUS

Last year, we identified climate change, nuclear weapons and feminist foreign policies as key areas through a collective assessment of our understanding of the foremost security threats that heighten militarism and/or war-making, and where clear alternatives to militarized approaches are widely available. Listed here are some steps we’ve taken to deepen our engagement in these policy areas.

Climate Change

• WPI joined the Environmental Peacebuilding Association

• We plan to publish a Peace Science Digest special issue on environmental peacebuilding

• We hope to create a new working group on environmental peacebuilding with the Peace and Security Funders Group.

Nuclear Weapons

• We produced a peace briefing on nuclear weapons.

• Patrick is among the so-called “co-conspirators” in a network of organizations committed to laying the groundwork for a more resilient nuclear field.

• Patrick continues his active involvement in the Nuclear Weapons Working Group at the Peace and Security Funders Group.

Advancing Feminist Foreign Policies

• We organized a Feminist Foreign Policy “Un-contest” (see details under Projects).

• We produced a peace briefing on a feminist foreign policy.

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS PLAN

Last year, we set three goals for our strategic communications goals. Listed below is the goals and progress made on each.

• Goal 1: Developing a reader engagement plan for the Peace Science Digest, including the possibility of a new section for readers to submit pieces

o Progress: Organized feminist foreign policy essay “un-contest” to test feasibility of solicited pieces for the Digest and currently finalizing a Digest assessment report to inform this goal.

• Goal 2: Revisioning the WPI and Digest websites for user accessibility and navigation, clear communication of who we are and what we do, and graphics compatibility to match field standards

o Progress: Successfully launched a new website for both WPI and the Digest Produced new branding along with the website.

• Goal 3: Identify new networks, with a strong emphasis on activist networks, to engage and with whom to develop new partnerships

o Progress: Joined the Environmental Peacebuilding Association, sought activist network as sponsors for the feminist foreign policy essay “un-contest”, joined a newly formed coalition to challenge the military-industrial complex; established partnership with Carter School; building relationship with Leaders pour la Paix

We continued to engage and partner with key stakeholders, expanding our professional network, and experimenting with new communications channels. We have been successful in engaging with other peacebuilding organizations in the field–including Nonviolent Peaceforce, MADRE, CodePink, International Center for Research on Women, Every Woman Treaty, One Earth Fu ture, the Peace and Security Funder’s Group, and WCAPS.

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New WPI/PSD Branding and Website

WPI hired the Portland-based communications firm Upswept, to revive WPI/PSD branding and websites. With the new website, our main goals were to make the WPI and PSD brands cohesive, more clearly state the mission, vision, and areas of focus of the WPI, and create an easy to navigate website. Our new website was successfully launched in September 2022. Below is updated branding for WPI/PSD.

War Prevention Initiative Website Statistics

According to Google Analytics, the War Prevention Initiative website received 13,747 pa geviews as of October 31st, 2022.

war.

“I want to end all

What should we do?”

“Let’s get to work.”

PROJECTS

In addition to our main output, the Peace Science Digest and our deep engagement in field building activities, we carry out a variety of longer-term projects aligned with our overall strategy.

Feminist Foreign Policy “Un-contest”

We center our analysis on the challenge to militarism and the assumption that the use of vi olence, force, and domination is necessary to solve conflict. We are inspired by the growing movement calling for a feminist foreign policy. We believe that a feminist foreign policy offers a new paradigm to conduct international and interrelated domestic affairs that shifts away from militarism as the default response to conflict, centers the lived experiences of vulnerable and marginalized populations, and critically examines the meaning of security.

In October 2022, we launched an “un-contest” to explore possibilities for advancing a feminist for eign policy. We are interested in learning what a feminist foreign policy means, especially to those outside of elite policy circles. A feminist foreign policy attempts to center the voices from commu nities that are rendered vulnerable or marginalized from the traditional way that foreign policy is conducted. Importantly, a feminist foreign policy is not exclusively concerned by the ways in which women are made vulnerable or marginalized as well as reduced to foreign policy issues only. Rather, it adopts an intersectional feminist lens that acknowledges how multiple, overlapping identities–such as gender identity, race and ethnicity, ability, or economic status–interact to make some people more privileged than others and how domestic and foreign policy issues interact. We are interested in hearing what a feminist foreign policy would look like from this perspective.

This essay un-contest accepts pieces in English and Spanish; and written, audio, and photogra phy submissions. As we are writing this, we have submission over 30 submissions not only from the U.S. but from countries such as India, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Argentina, New Zea land, UK, Italy, Romania, Jordan, and Canada.

It is sponsored by several prominent organizations in the field including MADRE, CodePink, Every Woman Treaty, International Center for Research on Women, Women of Color Advanc ing Peace and Security (WCAPS), Women Cross DMZ, and Inkstick Media. A select number of submissions will be chosen for publication in the Peace Science Digest and author(s) will be award ed $500 for publication. We are very happy that Nansie Jubitz asked for the many donations “Remembering Ray” to be allocated for this project. Pieces for publication will be chosen by a selection committee composed of WPI staffers and representatives from Women Cross DMZ, WCAPS, and CodePink.

Annotated Bibliography on Demilitarizing Security (ongoing)

The research project seeks to catalog existing academic literature related to our organizational definition of demilitarizing security or, “a radically transformed concept of security that priori tizes a global, shared security paradigm that is cognizant of the lived experience(s) of individuals and communities, particularly those made more vulnerable by security threats or whose voices are often overlooked by traditional security discourse.”

Given the size and scope of this project, we can tentatively expect a final version of this project in 2023. In a newly developed online platform, the written report will be translated into usable resource, advocacy, policy, and action toolkit.

Peace Systems for Sustainable Peace Video (delayed in 2022)

The WPI and Professor Douglas Fry from the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) have started collaborating on a project showcasing research on exploring peace systems. The partnership evolved out of almost ten years of overlap between Professor Fry’s research on peace systems and the WPI’s Global Peace System education and advocacy agenda. The latter has been in part informed by Fry’s work, who is world renowned for his groundbreaking anthro pological work on examining peaceful societies; put differently, Fry did nothing less than provide the proof that war is not part of human nature.

This project specifically aims to create an educational video in an engaging story-driven format to reveal the lessons learned from existing peace systems (clusters of neighboring societies that do not make war with each other) for peaceful intergroup and international relationships. Profes sor Fry already allocated available research funds to this project. We intend to pick up this project early 2023

The key broader message is: The prospect of sustainable peace is real, not naive wishful thinking. Major global threats can and must be addressed through the peace systems lens.

Douglas Fry, Anthropologist and author of The Human Potential for Peace

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Broaden the us, to include the them

THE ROTARY ANGLE

Since its inception WPI has considered possibilities to engage the global network of Rotarians to advance a more rigorous peacebuilding agenda. WPI’s involvement has taken place on a wide range of issues.

In our last Trustee Docket, we provided an extensive historical list. Notable 2022 engagements included:

• WPI remains in touch with the Rotary International headquarters about the overall peace strategy.

• Close work with Ray Matsumiya to re-align Rotary/Rotarian engagement with the WPI peace agenda

• Partnership with the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University entitled “Rotary and Conflict Prevention & Resolution: new horizons & new opportunities”

The partnership with the Carter School focuses on the role, capacities, and future trajectories of Rotary International’s organizational and individual Rotarians conflict prevention and resolution work globally, and the work to be undertaken by the Carter School during its next period of development. Attendees were from JFF, George Mason University, Rotary International repre sentatives, carefully chosen Rotarians, Rotary peace fellows, and a representative of the Institute for Integrated Transitions.

Two further gatherings are planned for the Point of View Process with the following end goals: (1) to develop an action plan that could assist Rotary in forming an International Peace Constitu ency and (2) to help the Carter School fulfill its mission to transform peace work globally . We are excited about this new opportunity that builds on our long engagement with Rotary and Rotarians.

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WPI AND JFF GRANTEE PARTNERS

Dismantling Militarism and Racism (DRM) in Foreign Policy Working Group

JFF funded the Friends Committee on National Legislation for work to address the nexus between structural white supremacy, racism, and war and peace issues. Consequently, Patrick was a full member of the working group which over six months addressed the racism-militarism paradigm and offered a path forward to dismantle it.

In January 2022 Patrick will attend a an in-person reunion of our DRM Working Group at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The purpose of this conference is to analyze the changes in the political ecosystem since we concluded our discussions in April 2021, review the status of efforts to unmask and call out racism and militarism, and explore ways that our organizations can continue to build and share knowledge and experience moving forward.

The engagement was a wonderful example of how JFF as a funder created a space for WPI en gagement on advancing our ambitious agenda in a network that extends beyond our usual reach.

Strategy Summit to Dismantle the Military Industrial Complex

We are part of an ad hoc coalition moving into the Strategy Summit to Dismantle the Military In dustrial Complex on November 19, 2022, at American University in Washington, DC and online.1

The day-long Summit will host a diverse group of organizations and people working to stop U.S. wars, cut the size of the Pentagon budget, oppose imperialism, prevent nuclear annihilation, and promote peace. Participants will include grassroots and national activists, advocacy organizations, veterans’ groups, labor organizers, think tanks, foundations, academics, and Congressional staff. The aims of the Summit are: 1) developing powerful new strategies to dismantle the Military In dustrial Complex (MIC); 2) improving and expanding existing strategies; and 3) building deeper cooperation among the diverse groups struggling against the MIC.

This strategy summit is an invitation-only event to ensure it’s a space fore detailed strategic plan ning. Groups involved are several of our respected colleagues from peace advocacy organizations we support as well as other peace and security funders in the PSFG community. More important ly though, the coalition is already tying in groups that are not the “usual suspects”.

1. In our commitment to reduce air travel and have more inclusive meetings, we will participate online.

ADVOCACY AND EDUCATION

We actively participate in and contribute to various networks, like the Feminist Peace Initiative, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and Organizations in Solidarity. WPI is an organizational endorser of the Feminist Peace Initiative, which choses to “to maintain the failed status quo or imagine a safer, healthier, and more equitable future. We can choose to allow violence and greed to dictate our lives, or we can choose a new path that resets the United States’ relationship with the rest of the world and uplifts us all.”

WPI is a signatory to a large campaign to stop excluding military pollution from climate agree ments. Notably more activist engagement around COP26 emphasized the general environmental destruction of militaries. This focus was an important connector between the global environmental movement and the more traditional peace movement. One must not be separated from the other.

Through our membership in the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons we have signed and/or endorsed letters to representatives of nuclear weapons states or UN enti ties regarding nuclear threats, human security, or civil society participation at the 10th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in January of 2022.

PRESS RELEASES AND COMMENTARIES

Nonviolent alternatives must be pursued in Ukraine to deescalate war.

Released February 25, 2022.

Diplomacy and De-escalation is the Real Solution to Solve the Ukrainian Crisis. Released February 20, 2022.

American militarism undermines diplomacy in Ukraine. Published on Inkstick Media February 22, 2022.

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PEACE BRIEFINGS

EVENTS

War Prevention Initiative & One Earth Future Speaker Series

WPI partnered with One Earth Future (OEF) on an event to increase exchange between ac ademics and researchers working on peacebuilding, and those people with lived experience in building peace. This event was moderated by Kelsey and focused on the analysis Existing Peace Systems Demonstrate Peaceful Intergroup and International Relationships Are Possible. Speak ers included Douglas P. Fry, one of the academic authors, and Juan Fernando Lucio. Rosalina Tuyuc had a medical emergency the day of and was unable to join.

Peace Science Digest Special Issue Launch Event

Nonviolent Peaceforce and WPI hosted an event based on a special issue featuring the following speakers:

• Sunday Stephen, National Protection Officer with Nonviolent Peaceforce in Juba, South Sudan

• Ryan Nakade, Mediator, facilitator, and consultant for the Cure-PDX project in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.

• Facilitated by Marna Anderson, Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce U.S.

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Stanley Center Convening on Disrupting Injustice: Racism and the Systems of Mass Violence Prevention

Kelsey was invited to participate in an invite-only convening by the Stanley Center in March 2022. The pursue of the event was to be a level-setting discussion to conceptually bring together several efforts aimed at unpacking racism inherent to the institutions and multilateral processes built to address and prevent mass violence and atrocities. The goal was to identify spaces of disruption in context of the history and ongoing nature of systemic racism in mass violence and atrocity prevention, particularly in systems and policymaking related to domestic and global prevention mechanisms. The Stanley Center had partnered with WCAPS to organize this event.

Thought Partnerships Learning Community

After partnering with Thought Partnerships on a Peace Science Digest special issue on countering violent extremism, Kelsey was invited to join their invite-only learning community. This is a net work of individuals and organization working in countering violent extremism and peacebuilding.

PSFG Annual Meeting

Patrick served on the planning committee for the 2022 annual meeting and retreat. Kelsey con tributed to a power hour on “Going nuclear on climate change: promise and peril”, while Patrick participated in “Futures and Peacebuilding”. Patrick also moderated the main plenary session entitled “Learning from Disruption: Finding a New Path Forward”.

Stanley Center for Peace and Security’s 61st Strategy for Peace Conference: Disrupting the History of Racism in Peace and Security

Patrick participated in the conference “Racism and the Origins of the Atomic Bomb,” co-orga nized by Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security. This element of the 61st Strategy for Peace Con ference began with a series of three virtual modules leading up to a three-day event from April 19-21, 2022, in Richland, Washington.

Leading to the conference, Patrick was able to connect the organizers to organizations and indi viduals in the region to contribute to the program and framing.

Global Leadership Foundation Annual Meeting

Patrick participated in the annual meeting of the Global Leadership Foundation in Wolfsberg, Switzerland at the UBS Center for Education and Dialogue. Two sessions that stood out and which framed most conversations among participants were “Is a New Cold War Inevitable” and “Whither Multilateralism”. In addition to in-depth conversations with former heads of state and high government officials, Patrick participated in his first in-person meeting as a member of the Strategy and Development Committee.

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PEACE SCIENCE DIGEST

2022 was seventh year for the Peace Science Digest. We’ve continued to broaden the scope of aca demic research featured in the Digest, while focusing on academic material that explores milita rism and other systems of oppression. We were very happy to renew the Digest branding and more strongly aligning it with WPI’s branding. The relationship between WPI’s mission, vision, and areas of focus; and the academic research featured in the Peace Science Digest. Due to Kelsey’s maternity leave and Kristin’s departure in July, the remaining Digest staff were unable to maintain the bi-weekly publishing schedule which accounts for a decline in website visits and engagement since the summer. Between July and October (when Kelsey returned from maternity leave), the Digest team successfully launched a new special issue and published 3 additional analyses.

Snapshot of Website and Communications Analytics as of November 2022

According to Google Analytics, the Peace Science Digest website received 35,320 pageviews as of October 31st, 2022.

Top Pages of 2022

1. The Effects of Military Spending on Economic Growth, Volume 2, Issue 6 (4,048 views)

2. How Social Media is Changing Conflict, Volume 2, Issue 6 (2,014 views)

3. Why do Some Protests Escalate to Violence? Published November 16, 2020 (1,549 views)

4. What is Environmental Peacebuilding? Published January 23rd, 2020 (779 views)

5. Poverty: A contributing factor to civil war? Volume 1, Issue 2 (659 views)

Gender and Racial Parity in Digest Authorship

We made significant progress in diversifying the authors of research featured in the Digest

As of October 2022, 29 authors were featured in the Peace Science Digest. We have featured more female than male authors this year: ~55% female authors and ~44% male authors.

As of October 2022, ~58% of our analyses featured no BIPOC authorship and ~47% of our analyses featured BIPOC authorship. This is an improvement from 2021 (62% no BIPOC au thorship/37% BIPOC authorship) and rate puts us above the rate of BIPOC faculty, estimated at 24% nonwhite by Pew Research.1

Peace Science Digest Twitter

We have received numerous positive endorsements and conversations over Twitter, including with highly influential accounts. As of October 31, 2022, we have 899 followers, an increase of 57 new followers from last year’s reported 842 followers in the 2021 Board Docket. Our Twitter engagement rate has improved dramatically in the past three months, likely thanks to the new social media content we’ve pursued. Our average engagement rate for the year is 3.64% with September earning the highest engagement rate of 8.3%.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/31/us-college-faculty-student-diversity/

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The Peace Science Digest bi-weekly newsletter is among our most engaging communications platform. We currently have 1,123 subscribers with an average open rate of 37.17%. (+7.67% from 2021)

Peace Science Digest Instagram

We have revived the Peace Science Digest Instagram account with a regular posting schedule. We currently have 146 followers (+20 from 2021).

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Special Issue on Nonviolent Approaches to Security

This issue focuses on nonviolent, civilian-led strategies for protection and violence prevention in various violent contexts, ranging from civil war and intercommunal violent conflict to ur ban gun violence. As distinct as these are, they are all contexts that would traditionally serve as justification for militarized interventions—whether by military forces abroad or by militarized police forces at “home”—in the name of security and civilian protection. Instead, this special issue highlights unarmed, nonviolent approaches already being adopted and employed around the world by communities themselves—and/or by international UCP (unarmed civilian protec tion) or humanitarian organizations whose presence has been requested— to protect civilians, prevent further violence, and enhance community safety. Drawing attention to these nonviolent approaches to security provision, therefore, provides a crucial response to the question: If not military intervention (or militarized policing) when civilians are being threatened by violence, then what?

OUR VISION

Our vision is a world beyond war where humanity is united and a global system of peace with justice prevails for current and future generations.

OUR MISSION is to transform the global peace and security paradigm to one that is built around via ble alternatives to war and all forms of political violence. To achieve this we research, advocate for and advance knowledge on practices that demonstrate the effectiveness of nonviolence and challenge militarism.

OUR CORE VALUES

Nonviolence – We promote strategic and principled nonviolent solutions over any kind of armed conflict.

Empathy – We aspire to view social problems through the eyes of others and re spectfully communicate with each other in the pursuit of mutual understanding.

Planetary loyalty – We consider ourselves global citizens, living in harmony with hu manity and nature.

Moral imagination – We strive for a moral perception of the world in that we: (1) imagine people in a web of relationships including their adversaries; (2) foster the un derstanding of others as an opportunity rather than a threat; (3) pursue the creative process as the wellspring that feeds the building of peace; and (4) risk stepping into the unknown landscape beyond violence.

OUR AREAS OF FOCUS Demilitarizing security

Underlying assumptions and norms in traditional security discourse emphasize mili tarized approaches to political conflict to achieve security. By rethinking what makes us secure, we seek to identify opportunities to challenge militarism in the U.S. and on a global level. The end result is a radically transformed concept of security that pri oritizes a global, shared security paradigm that is cognizant of the lived experience(s) of individuals and communities, particularly those made more vulnerable by security threats or whose voices are often overlooked by traditional security discourse.

Managing political conflict without violence

Violence is often considered an undesirable yet inevitable characteristic of political conflict. By demonstrating the effectiveness of nonviolent responses to political conflict, we advocate for the rejection of political violence and instead promote the many viable alternatives. The end result is a global expectation/standard that political conflicts are managed without violence.

Creating Possibilities Despite Compounding and Escalating Global Crises