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Friends Peace Teams records

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG4.136
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Language:
English
Date:
1993-2020 (inclusive)
Creator:
Friends Peace Teams, Inc.
Abstract:
Friends Peace Teams (FPT) is an international non-profit charitable organization founded by North American Quaker Yearly Meetings in 1993. This collection includes records of Friends Peace Teams Council, the governing body of the group, as well as subject files.

Friends Peace Teams (FPT) is an international non-profit charitable organization founded by North American Quaker Yearly Meetings in 1993. It works to promote world peace and decolonization, oppose racism and political violence, and facilitate Quaker Meetings and individual participation in peace work by visiting locations experiencing violence.

The African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) was established in 1999 when an international delegation of members visited Africa following the Rwandan genocide, and focuses on promoting peace activities in Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. FPT currently works in conjunction with peace organizations in 15 countries.

This collection includes records of Friends Peace Teams Council, the governing body of the group, such as meeting minutes and financial records. Subject files contain organizational correspondence, African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) reports, information relating to kindred charitable organizations, and individual files of FPT participants, including Val Liveoak, coordinator of FPT's Peacebuilding en las Américas from 1993-2016.

Gift of Friends Peace Teams via John Kintree, Gay Howard, Val Liveoak, and Ann Sieber, 2015, 2018, and 2021. Accession numbers FHL-2015-025, FHL-2015-037, FHL-2018-047, FHL-2021-008.

Computer storage media (1 CD and 1 3.5" floppy) were retained with the collection, while serials were removed to SG1.

Issues were removed and transferred to the Peace Collection periodicals: PYM Waging Peace, PBI/USA Report, Signs of the Times, Friends Peace Teams PeaceWays, PeaceWays AGLI, Peace Teams News

Organization

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Chloe Lucchesi
Finding Aid Date
2023
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

Nonprofit incorporation documents.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes by-laws, articles of incorporation, IRS letter

Minutes, 1993-1994.
Box 1
Minutes, 1997.
Box 1
Minutes, 1998.
Box 1
Minutes, 1999.
Box 1
Minutes, 2007.
Box 1
Minutes, 2010.
Box 1
Minutes, 2011.
Box 1
Minutes, 2012.
Box 1
Minutes, 2013.
Box 1
Minutes, 2014.
Box 1
Minutes, 2015.
Box 1
Minutes, 2016.
Box 1
Minutes, 2017.
Box 1
Minutes, 2018.
Box 1
Minutes, 2019.
Box 1
Minutes, 2020.
Box 1
IRS 990s, 2005-2013.
Box 1
IRS 990s, 2014-2016.
Box 1
IRS 990s, 2017-2019.
Box 1
Financial statements, 2008-2010.
Box 1
Financial statements, 2011-2014.
Box 1
Financial statements, 2014-2016.
Box 1
Financial statements, 2017-2019.
Box 1

African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) reports, 1994-1999.
Box 2
African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) reports, 1999-2001.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes conflict resolution manual, pamphlets, and epistles

African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) reports, 2004-2005.
Box 2
Christian Peacemaker Teams records, 1994-1995.
Box 2
Correspondence and related documents, 1993-1998.
Box 2
Correspondence (inquiries and donations), 1994-1998.
Box 2
Correspondence, 1996.
Box 2
Financial and fundraising records, 1995-2004.
Box 2
Financial records, 2005.
Box 2
Friends Peace Teams files (digital), 1997-2009. 0.2918 GB.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes a lot of council records, including meeting minutes and financial records. Also includes materials for preparing for publications, PeaceWays and Peace Team News. Other materials includes some photographs, A Decade of Waging Peace on the history of Friends Peace Teams, reentry handbooks, and fundraising materials.

Physical Description

0.2918 GB

Grupos Cuáqueros por la Paz.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Proposal to form a Spanish-language equivalent of Friends Peace Teams, or "Quakers for Peace Group"

Hope Project, 1994.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Individual files folders include reports, correspondence, workshop materials, and writings by or about the person in the file title.

Arnett, Mary, 1996-1998.
Box 2
Boulding, Elise, 1993-1998.
Box 2
Boulding, Elise. Newsletters, 1994-1995.
Box 2
Harman, Ted, 1996.
Box 2
Hartsough, David, 1993-1997.
Box 2
Lakey, George, 1993-1995.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 3.5" floppy disk. Attempts at imaging the disk suggest it is either blank or too damaged to read.

Liveoak, Val, 1993-1996.
Box 3
Lord, Mary, 1995.
Box 3
Packard, Rosa, 1995-1997.
Box 3
Yokum, Cecilia.
Box 3
Interactions with Yearly Meetings, 1995.
Box 3
Interactions with Yearly Meetings: New England Yearly Meeting, 1995-1999.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Seemingly collected by Sheila Garrett

Interactions with Yearly Meetings: Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting, 1994-1997.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Seemingly collected by Rebecca and Harry Rogers

Kindred organizations.
Box 3
Lighthouse Community Peace Team Project of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1995-1997.
Box 3
Listening Project community survey (Rural Southern Voice for Peace).
Box 3
Mailing lists, 1993-1996.
Box 3
Michigan Peace Teams Bulletins, 1996-1997.
Box 3
Peace Brigades International (PBI) mailings and reports, 1998-1999.
Box 3
Reference materials - peace and nonviolence publications.
Box 3
Reports.
Box 3
Worker training materials, 1995-2006.

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