Shalom-SCCRR is an accredited member of the United Nations, recognized for its significant contributions to conflict resolution, reconciliation, and peacebuilding in Africa. Through this accreditation, Shalom-SCCRR actively collaborates with UN departments, as well as more than 1,500 UN-associated NGOs and academic institutions working toward a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
We deeply appreciate the visionary leadership and tireless commitment of our International Chairman, Rev. Dr. Patrick Devine. Whether engaging with global leaders, guiding the Shalom professional team with strategic clarity, or working directly at the grassroots to empower communities, his stewardship and dedication continue to inspire impactful change.
His recent visit to the UN headquarters in New York accompanied by the Irish Ambassador to the UN, His Excellency Fergal Mythen. Ambassador Mythen had recently represented Ireland on the UN Security Council. Fr. Patrick, when in the USA, had many important meetings and engagements with key global, regional, national, and local peace and development actors to strengthen partnerships and collaboration with Shalom-SCCRR.
During these engagements, Rev. Dr. Patrick Devine shared Shalom-SCCRR’s globally recognized intervention methodology, rooted in rigorous empirical research, evidence-based programming, adaptive Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems, and community-led conflict transformation frameworks.
Shalom’s Humanitarian, Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding, and Development, transformative interventions across Eastern Africa’s remote, marginalized, and conflict-affected environments have become a guiding beacon of methodology for practitioners and academics. The methodology continues to receive growing international recognition for integrating grassroots participation, policy engagement, research-driven analysis, and sustainable peacebuilding practice.
It was particularly remarkable to witness a copy of ‘Persistent Conflict Between the Pokot and the Turkana: Causes and Policy Implications’ reaching the distinguished chamber where meetings of the United Nations Security Council are convened. I am sure it is a first for the Pokot and Turkana peoples!
Thank you, Fr. Patrick, for always remembering and taking with you the needs of millions of neglected people in Africa.
