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About us

Advocacy, awareness and community for a just peace.

North Carolinians for Peace promotes human rights, social justice, and the alleviation of human suffering. Through advocacy, awareness, and community, we stand with the victims of conflict and work toward a lasting, just peace in Sri Lanka.

NCFP members and families at a May 18 Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day gathering
1996 Founded in Raleigh
$1M+ In aid delivered
2 Congressional resolutions supported
4 Chapters across North Carolina
Our mission

To promote human rights, social justice and relief from human suffering — and to lobby our elected representatives for a just and peaceful solution to the ethnic conflict in the island now known as Sri Lanka.

What we do
  • Public awareness campaigns for victims of conflict
  • Seminars
  • Highlighting human rights violations
  • Fundraising
  • Facilitating aid to victims
  • Public relations

Our membership determines our geographic focus.

Advocacy

Advocacy that reaches Washington

Several times a year, two to four members travel to Washington to meet congressional staff, describe conditions facing their relatives in Sri Lanka, and make specific requests. This is the core of what NCFP does.

H.Res. 711 2009

Called for the release of more than 300,000 people held in Sri Lankan internment camps after the fighting ended.

S.Res. 84 2011 · Unanimous

Called for accountability for war crimes and helped open a UN Human Rights Council process on Sri Lanka.

  • Marches and rallies Black July commemorations in Washington, a Capitol Hill rally for Tamil self-determination, and rallies during the 2008–2009 war.
  • A national message We coordinate with the US Tamil Action Group (USTAG) so state delegations carry one message.
  • North Carolina leads Our congressional delegation has often been among the first to sign joint letters on Sri Lanka.
  • The next generation Young people from our community have interned at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Aid

Advocacy doesn't replace aid.

Fewer than fifty North Carolina families have delivered more than $1 million in humanitarian and livelihood assistance to war-affected areas in Sri Lanka's north and east.

$1M+ from fewer than 50 families
Our people

The volunteers behind the work

Every board member is an unpaid volunteer. Nobody here draws a salary.

  • Logendran Kannuthurai President
  • Ragunathan Thiyagarajah Vice President
  • Vithurpan Ragulan Vice President
  • Prashanth Sirinivasan Secretary
  • Balavani Thushyanthan Treasurer
Since 1996 It started with ten families in a church hall. On March 16, 1996, about ten families met at Pullen Park Baptist Church in Raleigh and decided that petitioning representatives and sending aid were part of the same work.
Read our history

Join us in the work for peace.

Become a member Write to us to join a chapter near you. Email us → Attend an event Seminars, screenings and gatherings across the state. See events → Support with a gift Fund advocacy, awareness and aid. Donate now →

Accountable and transparent

North Carolinians for Peace is a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and human rights. SOSID: 0428264

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