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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

Marius Wiyao, Director, West African Affairs
Darius Fair, Middle East Consultant
Ashley Guibi, Program Consultant

Joanna Makhlouf, Organization Consultant
​Omad Asaf-Qadeer, Public Relations

Michael Sipper, Public Relations

Program Associates       

Abderaman Saleh
Eduard Winner                     
Emerson Xu
Ieva Liepniece
Jason Melz
Liah Gutierrez
Rory E. Madden
Samuel C. Hoetama
Shadrack Osero
Shruti Satish
Sophie Kalista
Teddy Coes




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​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 the OIC Foreign Relations Breakthrough Project

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.

 


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