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(EIN: 30-0272503)
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ABOUT US
About the PeaceKeeper Foundation Inc.
The PeaceKeeper Foundation Inc. is dedicated to promoting peace through shared solutions to global conflicts and climate change impacts on societies and across all peoples. The scale of climate change is mediated through the global atmosphere, a shared resource that touches every human on the planet. Atmospheric circulation overturns on an annual basis transmitting and distributing greenhouse gases (GHG) and warming to all beneath the sky. Boundaries become meaningless, divisions and lines between countries vanish and humanity coalesces into global oneness.
The need for peace to preserve cultures and humanity has never been more important, for example, in Ukraine. The PeaceKeeper Foundation’s goal of providing $1+ billion per year in humanitarian aid is achievable through coordinating efforts with existing funders but also by developing a self-sufficient source of revenue based on our ‘water + air + agriculture + safety’ directly measured offsets.
The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine continues to worsen, necessitating urgent international aid. As the war, initiated by Russia in 2022, stretches into its third year, the United Nations estimates that 14.6 million Ukrainians require humanitarian assistance, including 8.5 million in dire need of immediate aid. These figures underline the devastating impact on civilian life, with many lacking access to basic needs such as food, water, and shelter. Despite efforts to mobilize resources, the funding gap remains significant, with only 67% of the requested $3.9 billion received in 2023. The UN has now appealed for $4.2 billion for 2024 to address both internal humanitarian needs and support for Ukrainian refugees abroad (UN News) (The United Nations in Ukraine).
Contrastingly, the levels of funding allocated for defense efforts far exceed those for humanitarian aid. The United States alone has provided over $75 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the conflict began, a stark contrast to the $4.2 billion sought by the UN for humanitarian purposes. This disparity highlights a significant imbalance in resource allocation, with defense spending overshadowing the urgent humanitarian needs of millions of civilians affected by the war. The continued destruction of infrastructure, such as homes, schools, and hospitals, exacerbates the suffering and displacement of Ukrainian citizens, underscoring the pressing need for increased humanitarian support (The United Nations in Ukraine) (Al Jazeera).
Meet the Team
The Ukraine Agriculture Restoration Partnership (UARP) was established in August of 2024 in recognition of the need for urgent action to preserve and restore Ukraine’s agricultural supply chain.
The initial core team consists of Ukrainian and American scientists and researchers.
Susan Murcott, The PeaceKeeper Foundation Inc. Advisor
D-Lab Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Susan Murcott is an environmental engineer and teacher specializing in water and energy systems engineering and planetary health. Since 1998, she has held research and teaching positions at MIT in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and at D-Lab, a humanitarian engineering program advancing collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global change and global poverty. She has also taught at Cambridge University and Tufts University. She has led student teams working on water/health engineering projects in about 25 countries.
2024 is the 9th year in which Susan has co-taught “Climate Change and Planetary Health” (EC.719/EC.789) at MIT. Successive teams of students working with Susan have been identifying bolder steps MIT and others could take through project-based pedagogy. Examples range from the projection of an MIT Climate Clock, the first university climate clock in the world, on one of MIT’s tallest buildings facing both the Cambridge and Boston sides of the Charles River to designing and advocating for a “100% decarbonization of MIT by 2035” plan to rapidly and cost-effectively get the entire campus to net zero as quickly as possible, so that MIT can both demonstrate climate leadership and share this knowledge with the rest of the world.
Susan currently co-leads the MIT Ukraine Water Project. This is an effort to collaboratively design, with Ukrainian experts and citizens, a post-war, decentralized, renewable energy-powered water supply, water/wastewater treatment, and distribution system so that all Ukrainians have agency relative to their water resources as well as access to safe and affordable drinking water and sanitation.
Mykhailo Romashchenko, PhD, Co-Director of UARP
Mykhailo holds a PhD in technical sciences, a Doctor of Technical Sciences, and Professor a full member of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, has long-term experience working in managerial positions at the Institute of Water Problems and Reclamation and Kyiv Agrarian University of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, being a principal investigator and expert in research projects, including international collaborations. Professor Romaschenko is the author and co-author of more than 600 scientific papers. Under his scientific management and with his direct participation, the scientific and methodological principles of ecological and reclamation monitoring of reclaimed lands, drip irrigation, environmentally safe water-saving irrigation regimes, reconstruction and modernization of irrigation and drainage systems in Ukraine were developed; an assessment of the impact of climate change on the state of water resources and moisture supply of soils was carried out; the volumes of irrigation and drainage needed to ensure food security of Ukraine are substantiated. Professor Romashchenko’s scientific contribution is the basis of many national-level documents, in particular the Concept of Land Reclamation of the Polissia zone of Ukraine, the Concept of Restoration of Irrigation in the Southern Region of Ukraine, the Concept of the Development of Micro-irrigation in Ukraine, the Strategy of Irrigation and Drainage in Ukraine for the Period until 2030 and the Plan of Measures for its implementation, the Water Strategy of Ukraine.
Anatoly Shevchenko, UARP Team Specialist
Anatoly holds a PhD in agricultural sciences, is Head of the Water Resources Department of the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, and a specialist in the monitoring and anti-degradation protection of agricultural, in particular reclaimed lands.
Iuliia Danylenko, UARP Team Specialist
Luliia holds a PhD in technical sciences and is a researcher at the Center d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Toulouse, France. Specialist in monitoring and management of water and land resources, land reclamation, and agricultural landscape arrangement using remote sensing and GIS technologies.
Vsevolod Bohaienko, UARP Team Specialist
Vsevolod holds a PhD in technical sciences and is a senior researcher at the Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His research interests include mathematical modeling of ecological and agricultural problems, including decision support in irrigation, remote sensing data analysis, and water resources management.
Bruno D.V. Marino, PhD, Co-Director of UARP, /Executive Director, PeaceKeeper Foundation Inc.
Bruno is a scientific entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience (CEO, CTO, COO) and widely published in peer-reviewed journals with 20 patents (450+ claims, 10 countries) published/issued in the global climate change space. He is a graduate of Phillips Andover, Johns Hopkins (BA), and Harvard (MA in Biological Anthropology, PhD Earth & Space Sciences) and was awarded a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies PhD Fellowship in the Division of Applied Sciences and Earth Sciences, Harvard. Bruno is PEM founder (1999 & 2007), chief scientist, and innovator.