Dan Pearson, 28, is Co-Coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. In early 2006 he spent nearly 3 months in Damascus, Syria learning Arabic, and meeting with Iraqi refugees living there. Later in 2006 he joined the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions for a summer rebuilding project in Palestine. In 2007 Dan Spent 5 months in the Yarmouk Camp near Damascus, Syria living among Iraqi and Palestinian refugees and listening to their stories. Since returning to the U.S., Dan has been helping to resettle Iraqi refugees in Chicago. In 2008, Dan was the primary organizer of Witness Against War, a 500 mile walk from Chicago to St. Paul to challenge and nonviolently resist our country’s continuing war in and occupation of Iraq.
