How to become a peacemaker

We are now on Phase Two of our Interfaith Peacemaker Team Journey!

Our Phase One resulted in training 6500 peacemakers and forming them into 325 Interfaith Peacemaker (IP) Teams in 8 countries. In Phase Two, OMNIA will shift to a Mentoring Method of training. Community Organizers mentored by National Coordinators will seek out 4-5 powerful religious and community leaders and give them a training on the basics of OMNIA's community organizing method. They will also help them build IP Teams in their communities including helping them to do urgent, relevant and winnable actions. When the IP Teams have stabilized, they will find 4-5 more leaders for mentoring.

Phase Two also includes decentralized fundraising. Key leaders from each country are being trained in the art of facilitating philathropy. Eventually, we need all our IP Teams to be free of dependencies on western countries. They are also being trained in state-of-the-art communications and media strategies.  

The journey towards becoming an OMNIA trained Community Organizer starts by participating inour virtual Basic Training. This is not for the faint-hearted. However, it helps participants develop courage and self-confidence to become powerful peacemakers. The training sessions are on 4 Saturdays and meets for 3 hours per session. There will be video sessions and assignments in between. Click here for more information.

Participants must commit to attend all sessions. Since the work of justice and peace can never be done alone, it is necessary that participants commit to participating in an existing one or starting a new Interfaith Peacemaker Team.

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A room full of individuals with arms locked together, listening to a pastor speak
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, provided a training on non-violence civil disobedience in the context of Black Lives Matter movement.

Join Us to Dismantle Supremacy

Following a series of conversations that  included those with varied identities: religious, race/caste/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and nationality, OMNIA's board of directors resolved that OMNIA will declare itself an Anti-Supremacist Organization. OMNIA will encourage all its Interfaith Peacemaker Teams to have an Anti-Supremacist orientation and will work to dismantle supremacist ideologies and actions in our communities.

Please see the invitational video on the side panel prepared prior to the Parliament of the World's Religions. Our resolution is below:  

WE AFFIRM and teach that ALL human beings have inherent equal value, having the ability to love and be loved, and that no human being is of lesser or greater value than another. 
WE AFFIRM and seek to promote ways of ordering our social, religious, political and economic lives in the pattern of a circle – in which inter-dependent and co-equal partners play on a level field and can flourish with life-giving energy; rather than in the pattern of a pyramid -- a hierarchical structure that leads to oppression, domination and violence. 
WE AFFIRM and seek to live by anti-supremacist values, actively engaging in dismantling all claims of supremacy be they religious, racial, castist, autocratic, colonialist, patriarchal, economic or environmental. 
WE AFFIRM and are compelled to espouse egalitarian values such as loving our neighbors as ourselves even as we recognize that our religious institutions themselves are caught up in hierarchical structures and thereby perpetuate, contribute to and participate in systems of oppression, domination and violence.  
WE AFFIRM and seek to live in harmony with all living beings and the planet earth, recognizing our culpability of dominating and thereby destroying the earth’s fragile eco-systems. 
IN CONSIDERATION OF THE FOREGOING, the OMNIA Institute for Contextual Leadership declares itself an anti-supremacist organization and encourages all its Interfaith Peacemaker Teams and allies to do so as well.

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Dr. Paul Knitter, Ms. Soraya Deen and Dr. Shanta Premawardhana invited the attendees at the Parliament of the World's Religions to join in Dismantling Supremacies Conversations. Click here for the Video.
A Peacemaker Team in Sri Lanka sitting at desks working together
An IP Team training session in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Build an Interfaith Peacemaker Team

Use your training to build an Interfaith Peacemaker Team in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Liberia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Togo and Uganda, in your own community, or virtually!

Your Basic Training prepares you to build an IP Team in your local community. Now with the virtual trainings we are also able build Virtual IP Teams. Leadership in an IP Team requires Advanced Training. In Bangladesh, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Uganda, these two-day trainings take place at central locations. In time, we will add Advanced Training in the virtual IP Team trainings.

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Interfaith Peacemaker Teams engage the best resources within every community to help turn the tide of extremist violence to create a new season of peaceful cooperation. You can become a team member - through your voice, your involvement, and your financial support!
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