{"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 is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/faithx-wraps-up-summer-of-service\/\">FaithX wraps up summer of service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/health-care-education-scholarships\/\">Health Care Education Scholarships are awarded to nine recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ddr-update-termination-of-tps\/\">Deportation Defense Response Team provides update as termination of TPS takes effect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ancillary-insurances-available-via-eder\/\">Ancillary insurances available to Brethren church workers in 2027<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/germantown-hosts-training-program\/\">Germantown Church hosts new \u2018Building and Empowering Lay Leadership\u2019 training program<\/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}]}}