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

Program Associates 
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Abderaman Saleh
Airi Price
Aminata Meite
Angela Yang   
Anique Jones
Brittney Moore
Devin Magee
Eduard Winner                     
Erik Qin         
Fatimah Alnemer
Jacob Rogers
Joanna Makhlouf
Joaquin Cabrera
Jonathan Adeniyi
Karla Ceballos
Maria Luiza Pires
Nomin Gankhuyag  
Owen Downes
Tessa Bassett  

​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.

 "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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