About Us

"I encourage every person deeply concerned about our serious global problems to fully support the innovative work of OIC."

-Ed Asner, Actor, Activist and Former President of the Screen Actors Guild

 Board

Arnold Keiser, President
Vacant, Vice President
Joanne O'Neill, Secretary
Sheryll Chavarria, Treasurer

Senior Staff

Arnold Keiser, Project Coordinator
Marius Wiyao, Director, West African Affairs
Darius Fair, Middle East Consultant
Ashley Guibi, Program Consultant
Joanna Makhlouf, Organization Consultant
​Antonio Marotta, Outreach Director
​
Program Associates       

Abderaman Saleh
Lily Moseley
Lydia Pepra
Mark Zoberman
Nino Sidamonidze
Vlada Tkach
Yosof Wanly
 

​Projects from 1984 to 1994 focused on....

-Promotion of public support for the United Nations
-Public responsibility for peace
-Peace education 
-US-Soviet relations
-Media responsibility for peace and cooperation

1994 to 2007....

-Foreign policy, conflict and peacemaking research
-Breakthrough project development

2008-Present

-Developing the OIC Foreign Relations Breakthrough Project

Background

Our organization was established as a New Jersey based tax-exempt, non-profit and non-partisan organization in July 1984.

Our founding members were Arnold Keiser, Leo Sprague, Sharon Thompson, Francesca Milanato, Barbara Fate, Gene Rathbun and Carol Rathbun.

 

​