What are we about?

The Resilient Peace Center (RPC) is focused on driving the acceleration of peace efforts by individuals and small groups. Our main focus is on making peace more resilient, that is, where there is some semblance of peace, we wish to make it stronger and resilient against any attempts to destabilize it. We will enable small peace efforts to ideate, grow and mature in order to  launch them into the wider world. In addition, we support global efforts to support indigenous peoples in their efforts to rightfully maintain their rights as humans and to exert their rights to control their lands and resources.

As a Public Charity, the RPC provides services and limited funds to individuals or small groups of individuals to participate in workshops to help ideate and grow peace efforts in the style of incubators found for entrepreneurs. The workshops are intended to help individuals move from the ideation stage to the implementation phase, whether it be a short-term project or a multi-year initiative. The workshops are based on the many years of expertise of the RPC founders in problem solving, global project management and humanitarian efforts. These workshops are currently 2-week, in-person sessions, where participants share their ideas, help refine their approaches, develop project roadmaps and milestones, develop rudimentary project management plans, etc. In the future, these workshops may expand to be 6-month residential opportunities to learn how to build true project management plans, raise funds, etc.

As a Public Charity, the RPC currently provides advice to some international peace and justice organizations. The direction provided covers how to communicate with universities, international funding agencies, and interface with the public through social media. In the long-term, RPC plans to help these organizations raise funds, as well as, for RPC to raise funds to be distributed to these organizations, which fall within RPC’s remit to support developing peace efforts and to support the rights of indigenous peoples.

  • Founder

    Michael Siani-Rose has approximately 35 years experience as a scientist, entrepreneur and mentor in the biotechnology field. He co-founded Dorothy Day House https://www.dorothydayhouse.org (DDH) a non-profit serving the homeless in Berkeley, California in 1991. Through his work at DDH over a couple decades, he raised funding to support day-to-day services, helped organized volunteers and cooked and served food directly to homeless people. In the later years, he served as President of the Board of Directors for approximately 5 years. Michael is no longer involved with DDH.

    For RPC, Michael is driving the non-profit corporate structure and building the direction for incubating peace efforts from individuals around the world. In addition, he has worked with Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ) https://serpaj.org.ar, a Latin American peace and justice organization, focused on teaching indigenous peoples their rights and how to interface with large multinational extractive (mining) companies.

  • Secretary

    Patricio Fluxa  is a professor and physicist working in the Optical Engineering field, focused on designing, building and testing optical systems for the Space industry as well as the Biotechnology and Biomedical industries. Patricio has been involved as a volunteer in various non-profit activities such as Solidarity Christmas and teaching mathematics, physics and computer sciences to people with difficulties to get access to those resources with the Catholic Church. As an experienced and eager traveler, Patricio has been a volunteer at Saint Joseph House of Hospitality, in Rochester New York, and has provided care to orphans in Sucre, Bolivia in between other activities. In addition, he has worked closely with Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ) https://serpaj.org.ar, a Latin American peace and justice organization, focused on teaching indigenous peoples their rights and how to interface with large multinational extractive (mining) companies in a peaceful manner. Patricio is working to expand Serpaj network by updating their work to make it more technology friendly and to keep it compatible with modern and rapidly changing technologies. Since Patricio is also a professor at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, in Argentina, he is connecting resources to create synergy for the pillars of Education, Compassion, Resilience, Respect and non-violence.   

    For RPC, Patricio is working on the structure and procedures to run, monitor and continuously improve RPC internal development. Patricio is also driving strategy through outreach to Peace efforts in Latin America with a vision to expand it globally.

  • Treasurer

    Elias Rose is a junior experience designer working in tech, who designs websites, infographics, powerpoints, and more. Growing up and going to DDH to serve breakfast sparked his curiosity for peace and equity, and influenced him to assist in starting this organization.

    For RPC, Elias has focused on day-to-day operations, communications, and has been participating at the Board level and helping to build the strategy for moving RPC forward as an incubator of Peace efforts.