About Us

"I encourage every person deeply concerned about our serious global 
problems to fully support the innovative work of OIC."

-Ed Asner, Actor, Activist and Former President of the Screen Actors Guild

  Board

Arnold Keiser, President
Vacant, Vice President
Joanne O'Neill, Secretary
Sheryll Chavarria, Treasurer

 Senior Staff

Arnold Keiser, Project Coordinator
Christopher DuMont, Assistant Project Coordinator
​Renaldo Alexander, Social Media Consultant
Andrew Marcus, Consultant
 
 Program Associates 

Sara Wright
Matthew Osche
Nishi Patel
​Seung C. Lee
Carly James
Mehmet Ali Yarar
Rabah Gabasha 

Background

Our organization was established as a New Jersey based tax-exempt, non-profit and non-partisan organization in July 1984.

Our founding members were Arnold Keiser, Leo Sprague, Sharon Thompson, Francesca Milanato, Barbara Fate, Gene Rathbun and Carol Rathbun. 

        Children Fleeing Rwandan Genocide​

                       ​Bosnian Prison Camp

       Marius Wiyao, OIC Adviser on African Affairs
       with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Mali
 

Projects from 1984 to 1994 focused on....

-Promotion of public support for the
  United Nations
-Public responsibility for peace
-Peace education 
-US-Soviet relations
-Media responsibility for peace and cooperation

1994 to 2007....

-Foreign policy, conflict and peacemaking research
-Breakthrough project development

2008-Present

-Developing our breakthrough project...........

           Transforming Adversaries into Allies

 "There is truly nothing more important to the future of mankind on our planet than to bring about a durable peace within and among nations.

It is a very difficult and lengthy process and very few of us are capable to be suitably engaged. OIC is suitably engaged and deserves our moral and financial support."

-Peter A. Benoliel, Chairman Emeritus, 
Quaker Chemical Corporation

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