Field volunteer experiences: PBI

Field Volunteer Experiences

The volunteers of Peace Brigades International (PBI) come from many different countries and backgrounds.

What these volunteers share is a strong commitment to nonviolence and a belief in the power of ordinary people to create a more peaceful and just world.

Find out about the experience of volunteering with PBI: what it's like to go on a PBI training, to work alongside human rights defenders, and to get along with others from different countries and backgrounds.

Volunteer profiles

What kinds of people become PBI volunteers? All kinds! More about the background of some recent volunteers soon.

Slowly, slowly, careful, careful

Andrew Hickman on the need to tread carefully when working in conflict zones.

Reflections on a PBI training

By Nancy Vogt, Indonesia Project volunteer.

Four months in Jakarta

Stuart Bowman talks about his work in Jakarta.