Avon Mattison
Governance, Peace, Education
Avon Mattison is a Peacebuilding and Inter-Organisational Consultant, Advisor and Mentor with over three decades’ experience. She works with innovative leaders, groups and organisations on the “frontline” building Cultures of Peace inter-generationally and inter-culturally for the children of this and future generations.
She is Founder and President of Pathways To Peace (PTP), an international peacebuilding, educational and consulting organisation. PTP has Consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is an official Peace Messenger of the United Nations (UN). PTP is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation.
Avon is also a Partner in the consulting proprietorship, Pathways Consulting. She is originator of Creative/Integrative Decision-Making(sm) in 1961, a process applied to the purpose, principles and organising strategies in diverse fields.
A U.S. Foreign Service diplomat for three years serving the European Community, Avon has served as special advisor to Presidential Conferences, renowned international leaders, and emerging youth leaders. A Summa Cum Laude graduate in political science and international communications. She serves on the Advisory Councils/Boards of several international organizations and has been quoted numerous times in publications worldwide.
Through Pathways To Peace, she created the “WE THE PEOPLES” INITIATIVE in 1983 with the approval of former UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller. This local/global Peacebuilding initiative unites the strengths of over 300 international organisations and focuses co-operative activities annually on the UN International Day of Peace. Through PTP, Avon inaugurated an ongoing Rights of the Child Caucus within the UN system during the first preparatory conference for the World Summit on Social Development. Avon coordinates PACEM – Peace as Consulting, Educating and Mentoring.
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Avon Mattison, President, Pathways To Peace
P.O. Box 1057, Larkspur CA (San Francisco Area) 94977 USA
http://www.pathwaystopeace.org
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