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

I came onto the NepalMonitor project in Kathmandu in 2015. It was such a rich learning experience, and I developed relationships with international and Nepalese staff members that I still maintain

Rosanne Teniente
Nepal, 2015-now

I have never met people where ideals and every actions match as much as within PBI

Teresa Huhle
Germany, 2008-now

My years in PBI were the best, most formative, and most inspirational of my life

Ben Leather
Mexico, 2008-2013

PBI has allowed me to get out of the bubble

Emanuela Lamieri
Guatemala, 2017-2018