The Donald Groom Fellowship
This Fellowship was
set up by Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
in 1974 to encourage and support training and experience in non-violent
social change. It was a tribute to the first full-time Yearly Meeting
Secretary, Donald Groom, who had a particular interest in
fostering links in the Asian and Pacific regions. A biography of Donald Groom (Peace
comes walking: the life of Donald Groom, Quaker peace worker, by Victoria Rigney) was
published by Glass House Books in 2002.
The Fellowship
assisted selected individuals to undertake research and training in
non-violent action, paid for visits within the Asian and Pacific region
by Friends and assisted with the publication of relevant material on
non-violence.
The Fellowship was
closed in 2012.
Donald Groom
Fellowships
Donald Groom
Fellowships have been given for the following purposes, not only to
Quakers but also to non-Quaker peacemakers in the Asia-Pacific region:
1975 Marjorie Sykes.
Worked in India. Travelled South East Asia and Australasia to speak
about Asian perceptions and concerns.
1975 Lilla Watson,
Aboriginal activist: published ‘Minority Groups in America: Their
Struggle and Ours’.
1975 David Martin:
Worked at Kendall River with Aboriginal people.
1975 Jann Bennett
(South Australia RM): Shared her experiences of living for nine months
with the Movement for a New Society in Philadelphia.
1976 Ibu Gedong
Bagoes Oka: Indonesian translation of Mahatma Gandhi’s The Story of My
Experiments with Truth provided to schools in Bali.
1978 Peter Jones
(Tasmania RM): Media spokesperson, research and training in areas of
non-violent change, nuclear issues, Aborigines and land rights.
1979 Rosemary
Morrow: non-violent actions in Australia, New Zealand and South
Pacific; wrote Pax Pacifica.
1980 Rachel
Bloomfield: non-violence training workshops in New Zealand.
1981 Diana Pittock:
built an Australian non-violence training network which took part at
Franklin River, Pine Gap, and Roxby Downs.
1982 Noriko Toyama:
Japanese anti-nuclear activist who travelled in Australia & New
Zealand speaking of her experiences.
1986 Joanna Hayter:
Former coordinator of People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND) visited
Japan with Noriko Toyama for three months to build closer ties between
Japanese, New Zealand and Australian peace movements, especially on
Indigenous rights and the nuclear dilemma.
1987 Penny Duckworth
(Canberra RM): Visited India and shared her experiences widely with
Friends and the public.
1987 Gracelyn
Smallwood: Aboriginal activist.
1988 Anne
Pattel-Gray: Worked towards Aboriginal women's empowerment and the
first National Aboriginal Women’s Conference within the Uniting
Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress.
1988 Sulak
Sivaraksa: Thai Buddhist peace and social justice leader toured
Australia.
1990 Erwina
Darmajanti: Environmental activist who worked for Pesticide Action
Network in Indonesia.
1992 Swati Desai:
Sarvodaya worker from Gujarat, India, who toured Australia to speak of
her work with Indian tribal people.
1993 Simon Weber
(Tasmania RM): Travelled centres and individuals involved in mediation
in North America and Europe.
1996 Victoria Rigney
(Tasmania RM): Wrote Peace Comes Walking a biography of Donald
Groom, Indian peace worker and the first Australia Yearly Meeting
Secretary.
2001 Peace Brigades
International training Victoria.
2000 - 2003 Jason
McLeod (Queensland RM): Nonviolence work in West Papua.
2004-5 Louise
Cook-Tonkin: Moral courage in nonviolent resistance in Aceh, Indonesia.
2008 Hannah
Middleton: Bringing speakers from Guahan (Guam) to speak of the
militarisation of the Pacific and its problems.
2009-10 Robyn
Starke: Recording women's non-violent action for change in Papua New
Guinea.
2011 Maggie White:
Prevention of violence to women and children in the Kimberley.
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