Teacher. Preacher. Peace Activist. Author.
Dr. Samuel Sarpiya is the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Conflict Transformation in Rockford, Illinois. Previously, he served as Moderator of the Church of the Brethren.
He is based in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Sarpiya regularly engages in peacebuilding around the globe. He trained Nigerian Security Agencies to use peaceful strategies to engage with the radical Islamist group Boko Haram and Community Policing for police officers in Chicagoland and Ohio to use community transformation techniques to address racial profiling challenges within police departments. Dr. Sarpiya is available for Nonviolence training, mediation, and conflict transformation consulting services.
FESTIVAL OF BIG IDEAS AND INNOVATION (FOBIIN)
Ideas, Development, Innovation and Peacebuilding and Transformation
In a rapidly changing world, evaluating ideas matters more than ever. Ideas have consequences as we all know and we live in Polarizing times where it feels more important than ever to offer a vital space for interrogating ideas that is peaceful and constructive.
My Book: The Highest of All Mountains
A Guide for Christians Seeking Peace and Becoming Peacemakers
This book is for people who believe that the gospel is a message of peace and this gospel of peace is relevant for our time. Peacemaking is a core part of our Christian discipleship.
Be a peacemaker.
It is possible to see peace in this lifetime. Peace is not the absence of disagreement or war, it is the hope that we can still live together despite the challenges. Let’s work together.