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Karuna Center for Peacebuilding (KCP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Amherst, Massachusetts. The stated mission of KCP is to promote cultures of peace through the transformation of violent conflict. ==History and purpose== KCP provides educational training programs in conflict transformation and inter-communal dialogue in communities experiencing deeply rooted conflict.〔Website, (Karuna Center for Peacebuilding )〕 With a focus on relational peacebuilding, KCP facilitators aim to create a context in which shattered communal relations can be healed and programs fostering coexistence can be established and tested.〔Green, Paula (2009). (''Reconciliation and Forgiveness in Divided Societies'' ), featured in ''Forgiveness and Reconciliation'' (Kalayjian and Paloutzian).〕 KCP was founded in 1994 by Dr. Paula Green, who came to the field of peacebuilding with a background in intergroup relations, counseling psychology, Buddhist meditation, and nonviolent activism.〔Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (2002). ("A Beautiful Paradox: An Interview with Paula Green." ) ''Insight'', Volume 18: Spring 2002, p. 4.〕 Dr. Green was joined in this work in 2002 by Olivia Stokes Dreier, who became Executive Director of KCP on June 1, 2010. KCP’s first long-term project took place in Bosnia from 1997-2002, first working with women community leaders and then with educators from Sanski Most and Prijedor in Northern Bosnia. The program was called Project DIACOM, to signify dialogues and community building in which erstwhile antagonists are led to mend their mutual suspicions and to begin working together.〔Green, Paula. ("An Infusion of Dialogues." ) ''Peace Magazine,'' Jan-Mar 2003, page 16.〕 Alumni of this project later developed their own training programs for expanding understanding, trust, and reconciliation between Bosnian Muslims and Serbs,〔Omanovic, Vahidin. ("The Role of the Project Diacom in Reconciliation in Bosnia" ) (2003). Capstone Collection. Paper 181.〕 leading to the start of the Center for Peacebuilding in Sanski Most, Bosnia-Herzegovina. KCP works internationally with in-country partners to lead peacebuilding trainings and dialogue workshops. Since 1994, KCP staff has led programs in conflict transformation in 26 countries in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa and America.〔(''Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Records, 1994-2006.'' ) Special Collections and Archives, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, W.E.B. DeBois Library.〕 Past areas of work have included training members of Nepal’s Constituent Assembly in collaboration and negotiation skills and engaging community-based peace committees in the Casamance region of Senegal. Current areas of work include workshops for women leaders in Sudan and South Sudan in partnership with the Hunt Alternatives Fund, and a multi-year program in Northeast Sri Lanka, in partnership with the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, that engages 80 Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu and Christian leaders in joint community projects and reconciliation following the Sri Lankan Civil War. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karuna Center for Peacebuilding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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