Partera works with human beings in places of change and yearning and conflict – from the boardroom to the classroom, the kitchen to the commons, the battleground to the playground on the conviction that conflict is part of being human, that the energy of conflict can be transformed into the energy of personal and social change; that peace is the harvest of justice and right relations.
Thriving communities of life and work are characterised by the absence of racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of discrimination related to class, religion, status, culture and sexual identity and orientation; by the presence of a clarity of vision, a commitment to flexibility and mutuality, to nourishing creativity, right relations, awareness of self and of the other, of interest, motivation and needs. The staff and board of Partera are people of Christian faith committed to working with all people of all faiths who share a vision of what Martin Luther King Jr called the Beloved Community.
The organisation is committed to:
- non-violence as an end in and of itself and as the key path to creating and maintaining workplaces, communities, societies and states enabled to live and function creatively and justly;
- anti-oppression and ways of being, interacting and working with people that are anti-oppressive;
- interactive learning with peoples of all races, creeds, sexual identity, classes, cultures;
- a methodology that is popular, elicitive and experiential, that assumes the inherent and lived wisdom of the participants;
- the provision of training and educational space that is safe for persons of all sexual identities and orientations;
- fostering, supporting, accompanying dissent in times and places of oppression;
- an ongoing and never-ending process of building critical consciousness, self- and mutual-evaluation and critique.
Resources
Here you will find resources for building and strengthening human community wherever human beings are found. Thriving communities of life and work are characterised by a clarity of vision, a commitment to flexibility and mutuality, to nourishing creativity, right relations, awareness of self and of the other, of interest, motivation and needs.
Partera brings decades of experience in facilitation, mediation and third-party non-violent intervention in a host of situations around the world on four continents. The goal is change, the right kind of change, well-being, flourishing persons, flourishing institutions, peace. The methods are popular, experiential, elicitive and didactic.
Whether equipping for living well or intervening for the purposes of creating and building peaceful societies, Partera assumes the wisdom and inherent strength of participants in any process towards change.
Partera International is founded on more than thirty years of experience along three streams:
Partera Local: Facilitation & Training
- Cultural Humility
- Race & Racism
- Gender and Violence
- Training across religious divides
- Mediation
- Conflict Resolution
- Project Evaluation
- Media Literacy
- Collaborative Conversations
Conflict Transformation & Non-violence
- Third-party Non-violent Intervention (TPNI)
- Non-violent direction action (NVDA)
- Conflict Transformation (CT)
- Economic/Political Literacy/Conflict Analysis
- Paedagogy of the Privileged
- Gender and Violence
- Human Rights
- Interfaith CT
- Alternative Masculinities
- The Schoolyard Bully Project
- Mediation
- Training of Trainers Workshop Design
Policy, Research & Writing
- Political Economy
- Academic Research
- Media Literacy
- War and Peace in Christian Thought
- Why we Kill
- Religion and Peacemaking
