Peace & Economic Security Program

AFSC's Peace and Economic Security Program (PES) addresses a wide range of peace and security issues and works with a broad array of partners.

The program serves as the anchor for AFSC’s nuclear disarmament education and organizing. While working to lay foundations for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, its priorities are cutting funding for the modernization of U.S. nuclear war fighting capabilities and movement building for nuclear weapons abolition.

Peace and Economic Security staff serve as resources and speakers in the local community and around the world. PES Director Joseph Gerson plays a leading role in building collaborations between U.S., Asian and European peace and nuclear weapons abolition movements. He is the lead organizer of the International Working Group for Nuclear Disarmament and serves on the European-US No NATO/No War Network International Coordinating Committee, which focuses primarily on ending the Afghanistan war. Program Associate Paul Shannon initiated and organizes the Majority Agenda Project in Boston and works closely with United for Justice and Peace, the Boston area coalition co-founded on September 11, 2001 by the PES Program.