Partnership: Successful Models and Critical Factors for Local/Global SDG Impact Presenters

Presenters:

Partnership: Successful Models and Critical Factors for Local/Global SDG Impact

David Wick, Pathways To Peace and Ashland Culture of Peace Commission

Program Description and Partnership Model

From their years of working with the UN NGO Pathways To Peace, David Wick and Irene Kai brought the seeds of the 1999 United Nations resolution, the Declaration, and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace (A/RES/53/243), to Ashland, Oregon. After a significant community support initiative, the Ashland City Council’s proclamation embracing and encouraging a Culture of Peace was unanimously approved on March 15, 2015, and the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission (ACPC), a citizen’s commission, was launched in a community celebration on September 21, 2015.

The United Nations identifies a Culture of Peace as, “… a set of values, attitudes, traditions, and modes of behavior and ways of life…” Our Mission is to challenge and shift our individual and community attitudes and beliefs to a Culture of Peace. We believe this will lead to a shift in mindset and behaviors which will lead to systemic change. ACPC developed a structure designed around eight areas of peace: Religion, Law, Habitat, Education, Business, Culture, Science, and Environment. To represent each of these areas, an Ashland citizen, known to have interest and background, was invited to become a Commissioner.

The vision of the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission emerged as “A community-wide movement dedicated to transforming our attitudes, behaviors, and institutions into ones that foster harmonious relationships with each other and the natural world.”

The Ashland Culture of Peace Commission worked with many members of the community including the City Council, Ashland School District, the homeless shelter, the Ashland Police Department, Southern Oregon University, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Ashland Climate Collaborative, and the Chamber of Commerce among others. ACPC also established initiatives such as Community Compassionate Listening training, and the Police2Peace program, brought in the World Peace Flame from Wales, only the second in the US, became an International City of Peace, and read an invocation to the Oregon State Senate. The evolution of the Culture of Peace continues locally and globally and within each one of us.

Bio and Contact Information

In 1983 David helped launch the United Nations NGO, Pathways To Peace (PTP) which assisted in the adoption of the UN’s International Day of Peace in 1981. David has been a leader in organizing the celebration of the International Day of Peace since 1984 and he currently serves as PTP President. While working at Stanford University, in 1985 he founded the ten-year-long PTP Peace Within Organizations program, and in 1995 co-founded the visionary project Peace Building Through Business which led to being a leading member of a five-year international think tank on the future role of business in the 21st Century. David is currently the Team Leader of the global Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI), an UN-designated “Peace Messenger Initiative”, of which Pathways To Peace serves as the Secretariat and supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building upon his knowledge and experience, David currently serves as the Executive Director of the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission (ACPC), engaging the Ashland community in new ways of thinking and behavior, and developing this model for replication in other cities.

David has over 30 years of executive and management training and organizational development consulting experience and has held important positions within Sun Microsystems, Stanford University, Levi Strauss, and the European Foundation for Management Development (efmd). He has designed extensive international training programs and has received accolades in both the business and peace-building arenas. Building upon his coaching and consulting experience, David has served as Managing Director of Southern Oregon’s Triple Bottom Line for the 21st Century Program (TBL21) with the goal to embed regional business with sustainability practices and leadership.

David served as Past President of the Rotary E-Club of World Peace during the challenging years of 2021-2022. He serves as an innovative leader weaving together his various peacebuilding experiences and the evolution of Rotary International’s focus on local-global peacebuilding.

David Wick, Co-Founder of ACPC

Email:Davidwick.acpc@gmail.com
541-552-1061

Website: ashlandcpc.org

Lisa Broderick, Police2Peace

Program Description and Partnership Model

Police2Peace is a national nonprofit which provides programs and training in community policing and community engagement for municipal police agencies of all kinds. With a diverse team and board members from the activist and police communities, Police2Peace works across the country serving both small departments and large agencies. Our mission is to unite police departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them. Our vision is to redefine, reimagine and advance policing on a national scale through the framework of police officers as “Peace Officers”. Our goal is to transform 1/3 of the nation’s 18,000 police and sheriff’s departments serving 100 million Americans to Peace Officer in five years. We’re focused on police culture change because the public is demanding a less aggressive approach to public safety, and dissatisfaction with the police in many communities remains high. We have grown over the last 5 years from the idea from introducing PEACE OFFICER wording on police vehicles and uniforms into the Peace Officer Promise Hippocratic Oath for policing and the online training curriculum Peace Officer: Realizing the True Purpose of Policing. Today, Police2Peace is scaling the delivery programs around the nation that transform departments into peace officer departments with peace officer curriculum and technical assistance to operationalize the change. And we bring together police departments and the communities they serve through community-based programs for better engagement, police-based programs for training such as de-escalation, and peace initiatives which unite stakeholders around building peace in their communities so that everyone can lead their best possible lives.

Peace Officer Promise™ is a partnership program by Police2Peace which helps police departments build public trust and confidence by making a public reaffirmation of their commitment to serve and protect. Like the oath officers take about upholding the Constitution and protecting the people of your community, the Peace Officer Promise is a declaration by policing organizations to their communities. Similar to the oath which physicians take to do no harm, this oath which acknowledges the notion of harm reduction by the police redefines, reimagines and advances policing. The partnership program consists of agencies around the country each making their own Peace Officer Promise to their communities.

Bio and Contact Information

Lisa Broderick, Executive Director, Police2Peace

Lisa Broderick, Executive Director of Police2Peace, began her career at Apple Computer in the early 1980’s and continued to work in high-tech for more than three decades where she helped bring new approaches to society through innovation and was on the forefront of innovations that dramatically changed society. Today, Lisa devotes her time to redefining and reimagining policing on a national scale in a way that both police and communities at odds with police can embrace. Through its Peace Officer Project, Police2Peace provides agencies and communities around the nation tools, training, programs and collaborations that support a new, national police culture which is fundamentally and sustainably about keeping the peace. Police2Peace serves communities around the nation, many torn by violence, to help them bridge racial, socio economic and gender divides around programs that uplift and heal them. Lisa holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke University.

Lisa Broderick
6424 Greenway Pkwy, Suite 100
Scottsdale, AZ 85254

O: 928-852-4240
C: 212-750-6493

Website: https://police2peace.org/

J. Frederick Arment, International Cities of Peace

Program Description and Partnership Model

International Cities of Peace is an all-volunteer, altruistic yet practical organization dedicated to facilitating the establishment of member Cities of Peace worldwide. The central organization is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit association, a cooperative much like an industry trade association. International Cities of Peace members include nearly 400 self-established Cities of Peace in over 70 nations on all six continents. In 2017, Cities of Peace, Inc. achieved Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and has been involved in several UNESCO projects around the world.

Respect. A single word tells the essence of why International Cities of Peace has grown to hundreds of member Cities of Peace around the globe. Instead of the top-down approach of many non-governmental organizations, International Cities of Peace asks what individualized actions are most important for increasing the safety, prosperity, and quality of life for all in their community. By respecting local knowledge and providing essential tools to increase volunteer impact, Cities of Peace initiatives are making measurable progress in all 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The global partnership network provided by International Cities of Peace provides a powerful platform for local peace leaders, thereby increasing their influence as well as the authority of their ideas within and beyond the borders of their community. Each City of Peace develops action plans that outlines a practical strategy to achieve the specific Goals that are most beneficial toward a unified and sustainable community culture of peace. The City-to-City Collaborative Program from International Cities of Peace enables beyond-border partnerships that have resulted in a web of cooperative efforts between countries and continents.

Bio and Contact Information

Frederick Arment, Chair of Cities of Peace, Inc., Lead Facilitator for International Cities of Peace
Frederick Arment is the founder of the association of International Cities of Peace and Chair of the Board for the nonprofit Cities of Peace, Inc. Arment is author, educator and lecturer on peace studies and a strategic consultant for nonprofit organizations. In addition to several novels, his nonfiction books include “The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works” (McFarland, 2012) and “The Economics of Peace: Freedom, the Golden Rule, and Broadening Prosperity” (McFarland, 2015). In 2018, Arment was named Distinguished Researcher for the Institute for National Memory and International Peace Studies in Nanjing, China.

Fred Arment

Website: www.internationalcitiesofpeace.org
Email: arment@i nternationalcitiesofpeace.org

George Anthony, Global Leaders Intergenerational Mentorship Program

Program Description and Partnership Model

The Pathways To Peace Global Leaders Mentorship program serves to provide peace building, leadership skill sets and training opportunities to young individuals to engage the United Nations and UN NGO’S in providing solutions in support of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Program and training development succeeds when students take ownership of their voices, their talents, and their dedication to building a better world. Peacebuilding is a work in progress, The Pathways To Peace Global Mentorship continues through solution-driven strategies.

The following Link highlights The Pathways To Peace Global Youth Mentorship Program and its Intergenerational partners in support of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

https://pathwaystopeace.org/mater-dei-prep-global-leaders-leading-the-way/

Bio and Contact Information

George Anthony, Pathways To Peace Primary Representative to the UN, Executive Director of Peace Dynamics

Mr. George S. Anthony is Executive Director of Peace Dynamics Consultants and an award-winning Educator and Conflict Resolution Specialist. Mr. Anthony has been featured nationally on ABC News’s “20/20: John Stossel Special Reports: Social Cruelty in Our Nation’s Schools” and on CNN’s “Crossing Borders”. He is frequently featured in many newspaper articles on bullying, conflict resolution, and ethnic diversity, as well TV informational and news programs such as WABC TV’s “Bullying in the Classroom” special report.

Mr. Anthony currently serves as The United Nations Primary Representative for UN NGO Pathways To Peace and Co-Chairs the United Nations NGO International Day of Peace. He worked with the world-renowned Seeds of Peace Organization, the Anne Frank Center of both the Netherlands and the United States. He has also worked with the Anti-Defamation League’s “A World of Difference Institute”, the New York City Department of Education, The United Nations “Seasons of Non Violence Task Force”, The United States Institute for Peace, The United Federation of Teachers and NJEA and numerous school districts. His programs have been recognized and implemented in both national and international forums and his “Peer-to-Peer: Mediation and Conflict Resolution Institute” was recognized at the United Nation’s “as a model program for the world”. Mr. Anthony is a member of the United Nation’s “Season of Non-Violence” organizing committee and has spoken at the United Nations’ World Headquarters at numerous conferences.

George Anthony is a trained Conflict Resolution Specialist, certified in Mediation by Columbia University, the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, and the New York City Board of Education. Mr. Anthony is an educator with over twenty-five years of classroom teaching experience and he the Co-Director of the Institute for International Leadership, Non-Violence, and Service. He has an M.S. in Education training teachers, administrators, social workers, guidance personnel, and others in conflict management. He works with Colleges and Universities, including Rutgers University School of Social Work, Monmouth University and Brookdale College. Mr. Anthony has produced award-winning videos dealing in issues of tolerance, leadership, and diversity. As a Director of Peace Dynamics Consultants George Anthony continues to work with numerous school districts, community and corporate organizations in a variety of ways, and has co-authored publications and workshops on topics dealing in Conflict Resolution, Leadership and diversity. He is the co-author of Stand Up & Lead: Curriculum Guide featuring strategies for addressing bullying and diversity, and creating supportive learning environments for all. He is currently active as an Educator, Executive Director, and Workshop Facilitator.

George Anthony

Email: georgeanthony4@aol.com
Websites:
www.peacedynamics.com
www.pathwaystopeace.org

Tezikiah Gabriel, Pathways To Peace

Program Description and Partnership Model

Pathways To Peace (PTP) is an UN-designated Peace Messenger Organization that holds consultative status with the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC) and the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). For over 40 years, PTP has been engaged in innovation, collaboration, and movement-building. Our Vision is for a World at Peace, and our work is about building a Culture of Peace.

PTP provides education, consultation, and mentorship. Working in partnership over the years, PTP has led efforts to inaugurate several UN-recognized global Peace initiatives, including the UN International Day of Peace, the Declaration, and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, and the PeaceWave.

Pathways To Peace works in partnership with Peacebuilders locally and globally, multi-generationally and cross-culturally on programs that build Peace, and eliminate barriers to Peace, including nuclear disarmament, climate change, racial equity, and gender equality. PTP empowers and provides a platform for youth, at the UN and beyond, that are and will become our next-generation Peace leaders.

Bio and Contact Information

Tezikiah Gabriel, Executive Director, Pathways To Peace

Tezikiah is the Executive Director of Pathways To Peace, a UN Peace Messenger Organization, in consultation with ECOSOC. Tez works in partnership with Peacebuilders locally and globally to build a Culture of Peace.

Tezikiah is the owner and Senior Consultant for Gabriel Associates. For 30 years, Tez has worked with mission-based organizations to create relevant, viable, and sustainable, organizations and communities that affect real and positive change in our world.

Tez is an ordained minister who conducts inter-faith and intercultural ceremonies and works with individuals and groups to “Empower the Divine Within Each of Us.”

Tezikiah Gabriel

Email: tez@pathwaystopeace.org
651-357-4436
Website: www.pathwaystopeace.org