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Contextual Leadership
Mary Gonzales Receives Kenneth W. Bensen Award for Excellence in Contextual Leadership

Ms. Mary Gonzales is the inspiration behind OMNIA's power-building training. She receives the Kenneth W. Bensen Award.

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Interfaith
Our Thanksgiving Commitment: Interdependence

Interfaith Peacemaker Team leaders spoke at the Interfaith Thanksgiving Service on Dismantling our Supremacy over the Earth.

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Interfaith
OMNIA at the Parliament of the World's Religions

The Parliament takes place October 16-18, 2021, virtually. OMNIA has a substantial presence there.

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Peacemaking
"When Will They Ever Learn?"

The lesson from Afghanistan is that war does not work. It is about time that we discarded that ancient strategy.

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Peacemaking
A Crazy Idea: Abolish War?

Social movements begin with crazy ideas. Their success depended on supporting structures, like the IP Teams.

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Contextual Leadership
Rev. Sathian Kadirgamar Receives 2021 Peacemaker of the Year Award (Sri Lanka)

OMNIA's Peacemaker of the Year (Sri Lanka) is Rev. Sathian Kadirgamar, who organized IP Teams in Sri Lanka's North and East.

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Leadership
On Becoming an Anti-Supremacist Organization

Following the conversations on dismantling supremacies OMNIA's Advisory Board recommended....

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Contextual Leadership
Strategies for Dismantling Patriarchy -- March 2021

Notes from the conversation on Strategies for Dismantling Patriarchy, February -- March 2021

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Contextual Leadership
Dismantling Supremacies -- October 2020

A summary of series of conversations on Dismantling Supremacies held Oct. 2020

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Contextual Leadership
An Emerging New Reality -- Tuesday Talks, June 2020

OMNIA held a series of conversations on the Signs of an Emerging New Reality, one year ago.

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Disease
"Food is the Pathway to Peace" - OMNIA's Contributions

“If Covid doesn’t kill them, hunger will,” - Rev. David Das, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of...

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Disaster
IP Teams Prepare Communities for Covid 19

In Africa, people live in close proximity to each other. Many of our Interfaith Peacemaker Teams are in marginalized...

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