{"id":20690,"date":"2022-12-16T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=20690"},"modified":"2022-12-17T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T18:52:19","slug":"chidinma-chidoka-begins-as-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/chidinma-chidoka-begins-as-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Chidinma Chidoka begins as fellow at Office of Peacebuilding and Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chidinma (Chidi) Chidoka has begun as a fellow at the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Office of Peacebuilding and Policy in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chidoka is a Nigeria trained lawyer looking to change careers as a peacebuilding and conflict resolution practitioner. She is a 2022 graduate of the International Peace and conflict resolution program of the School of International Service at the American University in D.C. Earliest influences came from her parents, who are both clergy, and that early influence convinced her that development can only happen in an environment where there is peace. Mediation came easily to her and that encouraged the trajectory of her career choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had an exciting career as a lawyer and ran a thriving local NGO that sought to impact the lives of the less privileged at the grassroots. Chidoka is looking forward to engaging constructively in conversations that will influence policy and legislation affecting people whose lives are disrupted by conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/resolution-on-weapons-transfer\/\">Resolution on weapons transfer is adopted by the 2026 Annual Conference<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/review-and-evaluation-committee\/\">Review and Evaluation Committee brings an interim report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-mission-dinner-2026\/\">Global Mission Dinner hears from EYN president Daniel Mbaya<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/elizabethtown-college-lunch\/\">Elizabethtown lunch features the story of professor Elizabeth Myer and the Pennsylvania Garb Law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/retinopathy-of-prematurity-vietnam\/\">Retinopathy of Prematurity Project aids premature infants and their families in Vietnam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chidinma (Chidi) Chidoka has begun as a fellow at the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Office of Peacebuilding and Policy in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[3,1340,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-20690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-office-of-peacebuilding-and-policy","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20691,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions\/20691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20690"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=20690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}