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August 26, 2025, Detroit – The Meta Peace Team, formerly the Michigan Peace Team, received the Teacher of Peace Award during a national conference of Pax Christi USA, held July 25-27, 2025, in Detroit. 

The Meta Peace Team, a long-time recipient of an Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Ministry Trust Fund grant, trains volunteers to serve as a nonviolent presence and offer peaceful resolution in situations that could involve violent conflict – both in the United States and around the world.

“Fearlessly and prophetically training and deploying unarmed civilian protection teams around the country and the world, especially in Palestine, Meta Peace Team is a shining star to Christians everywhere of what discipleship of the nonviolent Jesus looks like,” wrote Jessica Sun, leader of the Pax Christi USA Young Adult Caucus, in her nomination.

Sister Ellen Burkhardt, OP, a member of the Board of Meta Peace Team, noted the Adrian Dominican Congregation’s long-time connection, beginning with the significant role that the late Sister Mary Pat Dewey, OP, played in its founding. “Others of us have continued to be part of this mission in the intervening years,” she said.

Founded in the 1980s as Michigan Faith and Resistance, the organization was renamed the Michigan Peace Team in 1993, the year that the organization first placed an international team in Bosnia at the time of war. 

Read more about the Meta Peace Team and the Teacher of Peace Award here.