{"id":2071,"date":"2012-09-09T00:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T00:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2015-02-17T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:43:12","slug":"2012-09-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-09-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonviolent Peaceforce in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Gilda Bettencourt<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">September 9, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2075\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2075\" title=\"2012-09-09-Gilda-Bettencour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-09-09-Gilda-Bettencour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-09-09-Gilda-Bettencour.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-09-09-Gilda-Bettencour-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 85vw, 230px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gilda Bettencourt<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gilda Bettencourt<\/strong>of the Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) will provide this program. She has been involved for the past 8 years, with people from around the globe who are working to protect vulnerable communities through nonviolent peacekeeping. Nonviolent Peaceforce teams are currently working in the Philippines , South Sudan, and the South Caucasus region. And have also had projects in Sri Lanka and Guatemala.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2099\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2099\" title=\"Peace-250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Peace-250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Peace-250.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Peace-250-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 85vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nonviolent Peaceforce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She provided a very powerful <a title=\"Sudan Peace Force\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-17-total-NPSS-Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">presentation<\/a> regarding NP\u2019s work in South Sudan \u2013 one of the poorest nations on the planet \u2013 as many struggle to keep it on track to a better future and not relapse into war. By demonstrating the usefulness of unarmed peacekeeping, Nonviolent Peaceforce offers humanity a different way to respond to conflict while concentrating on protecting civilians and reducing violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Non-violent Peaceforce is also making a difference in the Philippines as you can see in this <a title=\"Philippines Peace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/september-28-2012\/nonviolent-peaceforce\/13216\/\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilda Bettencourt September 9, 2012 &nbsp; Gilda Bettencourtof the Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) will provide this program. She has been involved for the past 8 years, with people from around the globe who are working to protect vulnerable communities through nonviolent peacekeeping. Nonviolent Peaceforce teams are currently working in the Philippines , South Sudan, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-09-09\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nonviolent Peaceforce in South Sudan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[95,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}