The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is happy to announce that Fr. Dave Schwinghamer, MM has joined our team. Dave, who served as a missioner in East Africa, will work as program associate for Africa and Sustainable Peace.
His overseas experience was in Tanzania beginning in 1969. While in Tanzania he learned Ki-Swahili and has worked in several different parts of the country in both rural and urban assignments. From 1990-96 he was director of the Center for Faith and Justice in Dar es Salaam. He has served as an international election observer for elections in South Africa and Tanzania. He has graduate training in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. His areas of research are on the causes of hunger and the causes of war in Africa; the regional economy of Sukumaland, Tanzania; and the Burundi peace process. From 1997-1999 he did pastoral work with the Jesuit Refugee Service in the refugee camps in western Tanzania.
Welcome, Dave, to the MOGC!