PBI has marked my entire life since I first got into contact with pbi in 1995

Christiane Schwarz
Colombia, 1999-2001

PBI’s work is important because they empower important human rights change from the ground up. By focusing on grassroots actors PBI is helping create space for these actors in political spheres, where they voices are direly needed. 

Brandon McNally
Kenya, 2016-2017; 2019-now

PBI reaches people pursuing a noble cause that would otherwise be overlooked

Uli Krause
Indonesia, 2002-2003

PBI’s dedication towards human rights interests me and motivates me

Ismat Bahar
Indonesia

PBI’s work is unique, professional and effective. I felt a huge impact while and after being in the field: I feel that I understand the entanglement of things more, I feel that I am much more dedicated to make this world a better place 

Anonymous

PBI has shaped my professional career and has deepened my understanding for dinamics of oppression and activism in the face of authoritarian governmental structures. I think in this way, PBI has certainly contributed to make me the person I am today

Inka Stock
Colombia, 1997-1998

PBI’s work sheds light on violations happening around the world that are not relayed by the press

Raphael Warolin
Mexico, 2015-2017

 PBI changed the course of my life and broadened my political analysis capacity

Marie Caraj
Guatemala, Colombia, Balkan Peace Team, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Mexico, 1987-2005

Personally, PBI was the start of my career. I later did my PhD on gangs in Medellin, where I had contacts from organisations from my time at PBI. That process essentially launched me into academia where I still am. I have collaborated with a host of organisations across Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on gangs and violence reduction in vulnerable communities. I now have my own PhD students, one of whom researches transitional justice in Colombia. The circle of life!

In Guatemala, I learned key things about nonviolent struggle from the people we worked with, and also how very little humble we whites are, to the point of perpetuating violence unknowingly, in everyday power struggles and not-enough-listening to the right people!

Michelle
Guatemala and Nicaragua, 1986-1987