VOLUNTEER

PBCI VOLUNTEERS ARE PEACEBUILDING MISSIONARIES

Becoming a PBCI member means you’re joining as a volunteer. As one of our volunteers, we assume that you have a sense of mission to advance justice and peace within you and around you.

PBCI is a community of missionaries. We are people who are experiencing this sense of calling to help build holistic peace in our own specific ways and means. We live out this calling in our own respective contexts. In this perspective, PBCI members and volunteers are peacebuilding missionaries.

We welcome national and international volunteers. Here, volunteers from France, United States, and Canada are assigned to work under the supervision of local community leaders for mutual learning in the areas of cross-cultural communications, strategic peacebuilding, conflict transformation, disaster response, social entrepreneurship, and other skills.


WE HAVE VARIOUS LEVELS OF MISSION OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU

Support Operations

  • Information and Communication Technicians — website designers, writers, graphic artists, photographers, computer programmers, videographers, video editors, social networking specialists, script writers
  • Business & Financial Services — accountants, bookkeepers, marketing specialists
  • Research and Development Technicians — research writers, research assistants, data analysts, data entry technicians, data gathering assistants

Field Operations

  • Inclusive Development Specialists — experienced social entrepreneurs, small-and-medium business practitioners, agri-business specialists, agro-forestry experts
  • Community Development Technicians — public relations specialists, community organizers, disaster preparation training facilitators, relief operation assistants, rehabilitation assistants
  • Conflict Transformation Specialists — negotiators, facilitators, mediators, ceasefire monitors, peace negotiation monitors, peace agreement monitors


WHAT WE EXPECT FROM THE MEMBERS OF OUR MISSIONARY COMMUNITY

Full-time Interns

  • Pass through the PBCI membership process — a senior staff will be assigned to facilitate this process upon receiving your application
  • Submit a medical report and proof of personal safety skills — general medical check-up report by a physician within the last four weeks of application; level 6 swimming (Canadian or American Red Cross) skills certificate; strenuous hiking skills, generally 1 to 3 days, similar to climbing Mt. Apo summit as test of evaluation; level 5 white water rafting skills.
  • Make arrangement with a sending organization who are willing to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PBCI
  • Raise your own missionary support — food, housing, transportation, personal needs, medical expenses, ministry expenses, administrative fee, etc.
  • Commit to at least six months of full time service in our Davao office or in one of our PAR Fields; and,
  • Bring your own equipment — computers, cameras, etc. — needed for your internship assignment at PBCI

Part-time Support Operation Volunteers

  • Pass through the PBCI membership process — a senior staff will be assigned to facilitate this process upon receiving your application
  • Submit a medical report and proof of personal safety skills — general medical check-up report by a physician within the last four weeks of application; level 6 swimming (Canadian or American Red Cross) skills certificate; strenuous hiking skills, generally 1 to 3 days, similar to climbing Mt. Apo summit as test of evaluation; level 5 white water rafting skills.
  • Sign a Memorandum of Short-Term Service with PBCI
  • Commit to at least 5 hours of weekly service in our Davao office
  • Bring your own equipment — computers, cameras, etc. — needed for your internship assignment at PBCI

Part-time Field Operation Volunteers

  • Pass through the PBCI membership process — a senior staff will be assigned to facilitate this process upon receiving your application
  • Submit a medical report and proof of personal safety skills — general medical check-up report by a physician within the last four weeks of application; level 6 swimming (Canadian or American Red Cross) skills certificate; strenuous hiking skills, generally 1 to 3 days, similar to climbing Mt. Apo summit as test of evaluation; level 5 white water rafting skills.
  • Sign a Memorandum of Short-Term Service with PBCI
  • Commit to be on call  when PBCI declares Code Red and field volunteers like you are needed to serve in one of our PAR Fields
  • Bring your own equipment — computers, cameras, etc. — needed for your internship assignment at PBCI

Allow us to introduce one of our volunteers —

PROF. MARILOU DINACAS ALNGAG
Senior Consultant
Public Administration and Inclusive Development

malou@peacebuilderscommunity.org

Malou brings a healthy mix of traditional indigenous wisdom and modern scientific knowledge in this Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) movement. Her vision is to integrate PAR principles and practices in the educational system, in social entrepreneurship, and in public administration. Her educational training — Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Master of Arts in Public Administration — prepared her well for this vision. Her PAR dreams and energies are mostly channeled through her work as Associate Professor of Public Administration at the Kalinga State University in Tabuk City.

Asked about the impact of PAR principles in her life and work: “The concepts of peace and harmony being taught by PeaceBuilders Community gave me a deeper understanding of my own basic relationships—with the Creator, with my being, with others, and with the creation. These notions of peace and harmony made a positive impact in my personal life, my family, and even in my academic profession.”



WHAT PBCI OFFERS

Spiritual Formation and Discipline

Psycho-Social Skills

Socio-Political Analytical Skills

Economic-Ecological Transformation Skills


HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY OF PEACEBUILDING MISSIONARIES

As soon as we have received your filled out application form (see below), the candidacy process will proceed as follows:

Phase One: Initial interview by a senior staff assigned to you

  1. A personal or online introduction to the Dreams, Values, and up-to-date work of PBCI through interactive presentations
  2. Self-assessment interactions, personal or online, in order for candidates to self-evaluate their suitability in progressing to the next step of the membership process

Phase Two: Reflection and Decision-Making

  1. The candidate will go through psycho-spiritual guidance within her/his spiritual community about the sense of calling in the advocacy of peacebuilding
  2. The candidates’ decision-making processes must include consultation with family and community, seeking their blessings
  3. The candidate must go through personal needs assessment and personal financial planning with a qualified financial counsellor to deal with stewardship matters
  4. The full-time intern candidate will finish the required readings:
    :: Lederach, John Paul 2004. Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies. Washington, DC: USIP Press.
    :: Stassen, Glen H. 1992. Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace. Kentucky: John Knox Press.
    :: Swartley, Willard M. 1992. The Love of Enemy and Nonretaliation in the New Testament. Kentucky: John Knox Press.
  5. The candidate is formally issued a Letter of Acceptance and may travel to PBCI Centre in Davao City for orientation

Phase Three: Orientation and Training

  1. The new member must go through the Basic PAR Seminar
  2. The new member must pass the Armed-Conflict Area Survival Training (ACAST)
  3. The new member will go through a Peace Learning Tour (PLT) in a specified PAR Zone

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM

Before filling out this application form, be sure to get to know what kind of organization we are and what kind of people would thrive in our community.

We also want to assure you that PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) will not share your information to any other organization and will strictly keep these information confidential (see our privacy policy).

 

1. Name:

2. E-mail Address:

3. How do you understand justice, peace, and non-violence?

4. How did you get to know PBCI?

5. Why would you consider PBCI as your volunteer service organization?

6. Tell us a bit about your life-journey.

7. Tell us about your culture: worldview, values, customs.

8. What specific skills, training, education, or expertise would you bring to PBCI?

9. What kind of crosscultural experience or training do you have?

10. What are your dreams, aspirations, passion? What are your fears?

11. Complete Address

12. Landline

13. Mobile Phone

14. Please attach your latest photo.

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OUR GLOBAL PEACE COMMUNITY

We are sent by Mennonite Church Canada Witness in partnership with our international community.