Mainstreaming Peace Teams A policy consultation entitled "Mainstreaming Peace Teams" will bring together sixty experts from inside and outside the U.S. to address policy and practical issues of the growing nonviolent peace team movement. Held on March 26, 27 and 28, 1995 at The American University, in Washington, DC, the consultation will focus on the following policy questions: * What will widespread peace teams look like? * Who should fund and control peace teams: governments, NGOs, UN agencies, corporations? * Who shall participate: paid or volunteer, international or local, military or civilian? * What principles are essential as this work becomes mainstream? * What are acceptable goals & mandates for intervention? * Are peace teams a new form of colonialism? The consultation will also address practical questions such as: * What roles can emerging Civilian Peace Services play? * What roles exist for humanitarian aid groups such as CARE, Red Cross, & Oxfam? * What nonviolent interventions have worked & failed for PBI, Shanti Sena, UNV, etc? * How can we overcome barriers of inadequate funding, training, recruitment and evaluation? Sixty participants from more than twenty countries will clarify direction for the growth of nonviolent peacekeeping and intervention. The Consultation will focus small and large scale interventions. The Consultation will focus on means for meeting the vast demand for small scale cost-effective intervention, presently led by groups in the NGO community such as Peace Brigades International, Witness for Peace, Christian Peacemaker Teams in countries such as Haiti, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and Guatemala. The Consultation will also focus on large scale nonviolent intervention for which there is little precedence. Serious initiatives from the German-sponsored Civilian Peace Service, the Swede-sponsored Global Peace Service, and the UN Volunteers will provide a real world test for an unarmed approach to intervention. Serious proposals for large scale UN peacekeeping intervention by John Paul Lederach, Elise Boulding and Michael Nagler need serious attention. Look for reports posted from the conference (now in progress) in the APC conference . from the nonviolent.action conference