Everything that we do is about challenging the belief that conflict, protection, and violence need to be managed with force or the threat of force—when we know that nonviolence is the way to lasting peace. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic can be no different.
With the global pandemic, violence continues, but there are now fewer witnesses. We want to say thank you to all of you expressing concern for our teams and the conflict affected people we work with during this time of a global pandemic. Your support now as always means so much to all of us.
Our teams urgently need your support in order to respond to COVID-19 in the countries where we work.
Will you be a part of preventing further violence?
Working together is more important than ever.
You make it possible for Nonviolent Peaceforce to be persistent, creative, and adaptable, even in places where people are living in situations where social distancing seems impossible and water stations are shared by dozens of people. Yet, our teams continue to be present and bear witness to the struggles of people who are in conflict-affected areas during this unprecedented time.
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Working with the world’s most vulnerable: Your impact makes it possible for our teams to work with people who are vulnerable to violence and poor health, living through clan, community-level, and national conflicts. And recently, just when the vulnerable are about to be hit with a deadly virus, many international aid organizations have either returned to their home countries or are stuck without access or ability to travel to the people in need. Communities could easily become trapped: violence continues (and increases) and the virus keeps spreading, now with fewer witnesses. Your support of our teams in the field has become even more critical, as our networks reach people in the most rural and remote places.
Supporting our communities is more important now than ever, as Covid-19 compounds vulnerability and social distancing is practically impossible in cultures where people greet one another with hugs and handshakes and extended families live together under one roof. The camps for displaced people that provide shelter to people who have fled violence create some of the most dangerous environments for the spread of Covid-19.
Making an impact with a relationship-based approach to Covid-19: Our community-led education and prevention work will not only continue to prevent violence, but our work can also be used to face COVID-19. The work you have been supporting for years is the same method needed in a pandemic: dispelling myths and rumors, deescalating tensions and reducing fears of “the other,” and strengthening a community-led approach. Tensions will rise and conflict is inevitable. But our teams and the thousands of people we’ve trained will model how to move ahead together in peace.
Thank you for making an impact. It is the trusting relationships that Nonviolent Peaceforce has built with local communities that is promoting these prevention efforts.
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Our teams urgently need your support in order to respond to COVID-19 in the countries where we work.
Will you be a part of preventing further violence?
We have been named as a top “trustworthy, vetted” COVID19 responder by Charity Navigator
Our teams urgently need your support in order to respond to COVID-19 in the countries where we work.
Will you be a part of preventing further violence?
Stay aware of the latest information on the COVID-19 outbreak, available on the WHO website and through your national and local public health authority.