Dear NvT,
The previous article describes an active programme we are undertaking here to
develop a core of facilitators of nonviolence conflict resolution workshops. 
The participants of the workshops have formed an ongoing support group with
QPS as a supportive function to them.  Part of this support is to seek out
further useful information.  In this regard, I am interested to get a copy of
the Charter of The Brisbane Peace Network mentioned in your article Problems
with Nonviolence Training [NvT #26, eds].

The plans, and more importantly questions, you raised at the Nonviolence
Gathering, will be rich resources as people here slowly start to develop some
of the deeper insights and questions.  Needless to say, things here are still
very much at a foundation building stage, but there is great potential in the
group that has been formed.

We hope to develop a good repository of material here at QPS for use of the
facilitators, and any material coming our way will, we hope, get looked at by
many.

I hope we can stay in touch.  We would welcome advance notice of any Nv
facilitators making any trips this way, especially if they can share
experiences.
In peace, Phil Esmonde
Quaker Peace and Service
6/3 1st Lane, Kirillapone,
Colombo, Sri Lanka


Dear NVT,
I've just returned  to Thailand after walking for forty days in Cambodia on
the Dhamma Yatra.   I have spent most of my time since February working to
facilitate this event.  It was quite a task to get the cooperation of the
Thai, Cambodian and U.N. authorities to let it happen.  Outside of  that
there was the hot season, former soldiers who've turned to banditry and
heavily mined roads to deal with.  However, it was an idea whose time had
come and I really felt like an instrument for it.  The Khmer refugees that
began the walk in Thailand were joined by hundreds of Khmer from within the
country, but who had been separated by twelve years of war.  This event hoped
to address the emotional needs of reconciliation, the years of suspicion,
mistrust and hurt that had come from the war and been fed by the propaganda
of the political factions controlling the populations.   We were successful
beyond our dreams.  Thousands turned out in each town we passed through, and
we were walking over a thousand strong when we entered Phnom Penh.  The
message was clear: "The war is over, whether the factions or the U.N. want it
or not".  I am working on an article about the walk, and will send a copy
your way when it is finished.

As you know, the military in Thailand tried the Tiananmen Square solution to
the pro-democracy movement, but  failed.  Many sections of the government are
abandoning the military, which means they may not be able to continue to use
military means.  A massive popular movement is calling for trials, and issues
of leadership  are unresolved.  Coup rumours abound.  Our office has served
as a centre for registering names of disappeared people, which led to the
phone lines being cut.

My relationship to PBI?  Still happy and close.  I am returning to North
America next week for PBI's triennial general assembly, and the Sri Lanka
Project Committee meeting.  I am listed as PBI's south-east Asia and Pacific
rep.  

I am considering another visit to Australia around the end of the year, and
would like to do some training and speaking again.  This time I would like to
meet the Buddhist groups as well.  My office in Thailand is through the
generosity of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, for whom I help
coordinate human rights activities.
Yeshua Moser,
Nonviolence International,
117 Fuangnakhon Road,
(opp. Wat Rajabopit), Bangkok 10200, Thailand