Meta Peace Team
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Meta Peace Team (MPT), formerly Michigan Peace Team, is a nonprofit, grassroots organization founded in 1993 that seeks to pursue peace through active nonviolence and create an alternative to militarism through empowered peacemaking. MPT provides creative nonviolence training workshops to ordinary citizens with a framework of third party nonviolent intervention (TPNI), and it deploys peace teams to conflict areas both domestically and internationally. Its peace teams have worked in places such as Iraq, Haiti, Bosnia, Egypt, Panama, Mexico, Gaza Strip, and the West Bank; they have also been placed within the United States to create peaceful presences at national and state political conventions, Ku Klux Klan rallies, and gay pride parades, among many other events.[2] MPT also works in collaboration with other peace and justice groups around the globe, including Nonviolent Peaceforce, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Veterans for Peace, the International Solidarity Movement, Peace Brigades International, the Shanti Sena Network, and the Metta Center for Nonviolence.[3] Its current offices are located in Lansing and Detroit, Michigan. MPT is a founding member of the Shanti Sena Network.[4]
Founded | 1993 |
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Founder | Rev. C. Peter Dougherty, Jasiu Milanowski |
Type | Nonprofit 501(c)(3) |
Focus | Peace Activism |
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Area served | Worldwide |
Revenue | US$189,181 (2011)[1] |
Website | www |