It has been a pleasure serving as your Treasurer this year. I accepted this position with great sadness upon the tragic and unexpected death of my predecessor, Stuart Kensinger in May 2019. Financial statements translate the story of an organization into numbers, and as such, fail to capture the emotion, purpose, and spirit of peacebuilding. I hope, as you read my report, you will remember the faces and sounds of the children and adults living amidst the conflict of war. I

Israel's late Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, famously remarked that advancing peace between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs was like jumping from a second-story window onto a galloping horse. In his mind, peace required exceptional leadership, involving courage, timing, resilience and planning. He was right, but his assassination on 4 November 1995 by an Israeli extremist opposed to the Oslo Peace Accords revealed that peacebuilding in the Holy Lands demands more than a

Bruce A. Barrett, JPB Treasurer: Bruce A. Barrett has long been an active, interfaith peacemaker. Born in Connecticut, he graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a B.S. in Applied History and Industrial Management. Soon after, Bruce joined his family bill-board business, Barrett Outdoor Communications Inc. In 2009, Bruce directed, edited, and produced the film, The Billboard from Bethlehem, chronicling the peace work of Combatants For Peace. Filmed on location in Isr