{"id":9251,"date":"2019-09-18T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/?p=9251"},"modified":"2019-11-01T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:24:08","slug":"lobbying-for-peace-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2019\/09\/lobbying-for-peace-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying for Peace in Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2019\/09\/20181003-Theo-Sitther-Class-Visit-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9295\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2019\/09\/20181003-Theo-Sitther-Class-Visit-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2019\/09\/20181003-Theo-Sitther-Class-Visit-003.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2019\/09\/20181003-Theo-Sitther-Class-Visit-003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2019\/09\/20181003-Theo-Sitther-Class-Visit-003-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2019\/09\/20181003-Theo-Sitther-Class-Visit-003-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peace advocates have moved Congress to rare consensus around a new mandate \u201cto help prevent acts of genocide and other atrocity crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drafted with the help of Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), overwhelmingly supported in Congress, and signed into law by the president on January 14, 2019, the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 calls for the enhancement of the government\u2019s \u201ccapacities to prevent, mitigate, and respond to such crises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEngaging with policymakers is absolutely vital to building a more peaceful, more just society, particularly in this moment in Washington,\u201d said <strong>Theo Sitther<\/strong>, a 2013 CJP graduate and, until earlier this year, an FCNL lobbyist based in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Quakers were historically involved in the abolishment of slavery, and founded FCNL 75 years ago to lobby Congress for a more peaceful and just society, which included advocating for civil rights and other causes. Its work on conflict prevention began after Congress authorized the president to invade Iraq 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Back then in Washington, \u201cpreventing violent conflict was a foreign concept,\u201d he said, and so FCNL made it the focus of its lobbying efforts. Peacebuilding \u201ctakes time,\u201d Sitther said, and requires \u201cbuilding mutually transformative relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in the most divisive relationships that you can find, you\u2019re going to find some common ground,\u201d he said. \u201cOne of FCNL\u2019s strategies has been, even where we can find just that ounce of agreement, we stake it out and make sure that we try to grow that common ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CJP students collaborate with FNCL and other organizations on annual Lobby Weekend activities in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace advocates have moved Congress to rare consensus around a new mandate \u201cto help prevent acts of genocide and other atrocity crimes.\u201d Drafted with the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2019\/09\/lobbying-for-peace-in-washington-d-c\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Lobbying for Peace in Washington D.C.<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1073],"tags":[1566],"issues":[1540],"class_list":["post-9251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-theo-sitther","issues-2019-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9297,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions\/9297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}