For the last ten years, growing out of some work I did with the United Nations, I have been working toward organizing a new global-scale Quaker-related college of peacemaking. Being a former Friends World College staffer myself (Development Officer, mid-1980s), I learned a great deal about mistakes the college made and pitfalls that it encountered. These experiences have informed my efforts to organize a new college: John Woolman College of Equity-Restorative Justice, Peacemaking, and Conflict Transformation. John Woolman College is currently three years into its formal organizational phase: we have recruited 22 Principals who are already doing the work of teaching peacemaking in various countries around the world -- Kenya, South Africa, Croatia, Costa Rica, Venezuela, the Dineh Nation, USA, Chile, and others among them. Several of these have established Centers or Institutes where people studying peacemaking can matriculate or intern. There is no formal relationship with Friends World College whatsoever, but what we are doing with John Woolman College has a remarkable similarity to the early years of Friends World, before the important mistakes were made such as formally declaring itself non-sectarian, devoting itself politically to one country out of many, becoming beholden to the US monetary and financial system, and finally to the abrogation and abandonment of its Quaker-style system of governance, the Learning Community. If you would like more information about John Woolman College, you can write email to CERJ@igc.org. BTW I am a very active Quaker and menber of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends (Putney is my home meeting). Also, and certainly ironically, I am the son of a longtime FWC and FWP Board member, Virginia Reppert.