AFSC intends to engage a research consultant/a research consultant team to conduct a cross-regional study that analyzes the current research and contexts of electoral violence in Africa, Asia, the Americas (with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean), and the Middle East over the last few years, with a focus on distilling lessons and best practices.

In April 2027 we are inviting a cohort of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to our Corporation Meeting on the 80th anniversary of AFSC jointly receiving the Nobel Prize. We will host a high-level briefing at a public venue in Philadelphia and a related peace concert with Opera Philadelphia. Additional activities may include a forum with laureates engaging with youth who attend Quaker schools.

Adam Shapiro serves as Palestine Strategy Director at American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), where he coordinates the organization’s work to support Palestinian rights and advance justice. Adam has worked for over two decades as an activist, filmmaker and advocate in the Palestinian rights movement, as well as in the broader human rights movement, including at ARC – Artists at Risk Connection, DAWN, Front Line Defenders and Global Rights. He has been involved in numerous grassroots and student campaigns and efforts to support Palestinian rights in the U.S.

Seeds of Resistance is a program for immigrant youth in south Florida that engages youth using trauma informed approaches. We provide immigrant youth and their families with political education, community organizing skills, and an understanding of immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights. We also provide education on environmental issues that rebuild ancestral connection to the earth and increase collective power and self-determination. We engage in “artivism,” and healing modalities necessary to become effective leaders in our local immigrant rights movement.