Board of Directors
Avraham Soetendorp
Awraham Soetendorp, Chairman
Awraham Soetendorp is the founder and co-chair of the Hope for Children Everywhere Foundation and President of the European Region of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. He is also co-chair of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders and a founding member of Green Cross International. Soetendorp served as rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Community in The Hague until 2008 and is a renowned human rights advocate and champion of civil society worldwide.
Harry Hummel
Harry Hummel has wide-ranging experience in NGO management and human rights strategy and campaigning. He has a wide range of experience at Amnesty International, and in promoting international cooperation within the Amnesty movement. He has also taken part in fieldwork for Amnesty and Front Line in Colombia. Hummel currently works as Manager Strategy for Amnesty International’s Netherlands section. He is executive director of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee works to promote human rights, the rule of law and democracy in Europe and the former Soviet Union, and senior advisor at Bridging the Gulf, a foundation that stimulates human rights oriented civil society activity in the Arab countries of the Gulf.
Chris Keulemans
Chris Keulemans
Chris Keulemans is a travelling writer and journalist based in Amsterdam. He published six books – fiction and non-fiction. He has travelled extensively around the Balkans and elsewhere, co-founded Press Now, and has organized numerous events on culture and media, both in the Netherlands and abroad. A former director of De Balie, a centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, he is now artistic director of Tolhuistuin, a new cultural initiative in Amsterdam.
Gerd Junne
Gerd Junne
Gerd Junne holds the chair of the study of International relations at the University of Amsterdam and his fields of experience are conflict resolution and development aid.
Ever open to new developments, he has been acting as an interlocutor between us and interesting researchers and other organizations at the cutting edge of the evolving field of media for peace building. In this way he has connected us to eminent Dutch researchers in our field, which helped us carry out evaluations as well as coordinate our current Academic processes. On top of this he sits on many different boards of partner organizations, such as, for example, WarChild, comprising alliances with mobile phone companies.
Jan Terlaak
IN MEMORIAM: Jan ter Laak
In March of 2009, former International Secretary of Pax Christi and our Board Secretary Jan ter Laak died after a brief illness. For us, Jan was a true “active bystander,” a citizen who takes an empowered stand for human rights, fights against injustice, and works toward benevolent interaction between people. He is profoundly missed.
