About us
We are on a mission to make 8 billion Peacemakers
The Waging Peace Project is disarming violence and injustice by showing up where we live to activate justice and instigate joy.
We are dedicated to multiracial and interfaith solutions to violence and injustice by practicing Peace through justice, joy and storytelling.
Making Peace our Purpose + nonviolence our nonegotiable.
How do we confront violence and injustice?
By putting Love on Display in Public. We can’t stay quiet because Justice is what love looks like in public*. We are courage activators, shouting for you to pull up your seat at the peacemaking table because You are exactly what our world needs. Showing up where we live is at the center of the work of The Waging Peace Project™. The only thing violence and injustice need to thrive is for us to stay home and believe that nothing can be done. Action is the antidote to despair. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Putting love on display in public connects us to our power to disarm violence by showing up right where we live to build communities full of peace and absent of injustice.
We work for those on the margins to be free from violence and discrimination and instead be full of housing, hope, and celebration. Disrupting the cycles of inequality is how we fight for our collective joy. Our joy is complete when we all have what we need to thrive.
*Thank you, Dr. Cornell West!
OUR MISSION
Activate Justice + Instigate Joy
ENGAGING OUR IMAGINATIONS
Storytelling moves us from fear to Belonging
The most powerful thing we have is who we are.
Through relationships, dialogue, and workshops we are changing the narrative around violence and injustice by changing the Narrator—listening to unsung voices of change and the visionary women who refuse to allow our world to settle. Uncovering our own story is how we harness our superpower for waging peace. We are revolutionizing how we learn to transform our communities for peace using justice, nonviolence, and unshakable connection.
The Peace Team
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Diana Oestreich
FOUNDER
OFFICER OF RADICAL VISION
BOARD MEMBER[ ABOUT DIANA ]
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Saadia Qureshi
DIRECTOR OF PEACE
BOARD MEMBER[ ABOUT SAADIA ]
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Lana Zring
DIRECTOR OF HOPE
BOARD MEMBER[ ABOUT LANA ]
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Courtney Christenson
OFFICER OF SPARKING CHANGE
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