With his two years as TFC's researcher/writer for the training curriculum for Third Party Nonviolent Intervention completed, Daniel and TFC agreed to expand his responsibilities. Daniel will assist others to use the new curriculum and, in addition, focus on another growing edge in the training field: strategizing for social change. He'll be more available for facilitating a range of workshops and expects to do program development in the area of assisting people of color to prepare to fight racism more effectively.

Daniel, 22, is a biracial/African-American who first did nonviolent intervention when he was five years old, breaking up fights on his playground. He graduated with the first Conflict Transformation major from his college (as a Phi Beta Kappa). He is currently on the international board of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of NorthAmerica, and has done labor and community organizing and anti-corporate globalization projects. He has facilitated nonviolent action trainings around the US as well as in India, Canada, Burma, and Indonesia.

Daniel's work with the Third Party Nonviolent Intervention curriculum included inventing new training tools, extensive research into what other organizations do in training "human shields," weaving together the wisdom of the International Committee of Nonviolent Peaceforce, drawing from research on trauma and stress, organizing experimental mini-workshops, and documenting the field-testing of the curriculum in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The curriculum, co-written with George Lakey, is being made available to human rights groups and others who want to intervene to save lives and open up the political space needed for just resolutions of deadly conflicts. (12/01/03)

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