Jan Passion
Jan Passion M.A. Currently residing in California, Jan worked in
Sri Lanka for 3 years as the Deputy Director and Team Manager with the
Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP). Prior to
his work in Sri Lanka, Jan worked with NP conducting field research and
outreach in West Africa and Palestine/Israel and also helping develop NP’s
infrastructure. He has worked as a peacebuilding trainer with the Conflict
Transformation Across Cultures Program, (CONTACT), the Karuna Center for
Peacebuilding and with Lesley College in Israel. Jan has been peace activist and war tax resister for over twenty
years. For ten years he worked as a psychotherapist working with perpetrators
and victims of various forms of violence and trauma. Jan has worked as a
bus driver, mediator, self-defense instructor, massage therapist, refugee host,
and emergency medical technician. His
hobbies include sailing, racket ball, frisbee and yoga. Jan's peacebuilding experience includes work
in USA, Macedonia, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Thailand, Israel, Sierra
Leone, India, Ecuador, the former USSR, Guinea, Ghana, South Africa and
Cyprus. He earned his BA at the
University of Massachusetts with a self-designed degree on gender and power and
he earned a MA in International and Intercultural Management from the School
for International Training and wrote his thesis on building nonviolent
intercultural peaceteams.
Related links:
-The
Nonviolent Peaceforce
http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/
-The Karuna Center
for Peacebuilding
-Jan Passion
-NV IC Peace
Team Paper written for Graduate School:
http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/research/building_nonviolent_international_peace_teams.htm
