IPF are priviledged to have Diana Francis & Norman Kember as Patrons.

Diana Francis<, a Quaker, has been an FOR member since her teens. She served two four-year terms as President of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and is currently Chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support. As a freelance facilitator, trainer and consultant, she works with people trying to address political and ethnic conflict - in Northern Ireland, in the post-communist world (especially the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus), in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and with international groups. She is also an activist at home and has worked all her life for demilitarisation, economic justice, human rights and environmental protection. She has a particular interest in gender and its relationship to militarism and peace.

Diana describes and discusses her work in her book, 'People, Peace and Power: Conflict Transformation in Action', which was published by Pluto Press in 2002. Her second book: 'Rethinking War and Peace' was published in 2004, and she has written many papers, chapters and articles. Having worked, herself, for an action research PhD, she has become increasingly involved in supporting academic work that is directly related to practice.

Norman Kember is a veteran British peace activist, a retired professor of biophysics, a Baptist, and a longstanding member of the Baptist Peace Fellowship, and a trustee of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He is well known for his involvement in the "Peace Zone" at the annual Greenbelt Festival. He became internationally known, when he - as a senior volunteer of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Iraq - was taken as hostage with three other CPT members, leading to a widely publicised hostage crisis. He had gone to Iraq to demonstrate his opposition to the invasion of the country by the United States-led coalition and to show solidarity with the Iraqi people. Norman Kember revealed his story behind the controversy of his captivity in Baghdad in his book Hostage in Iraq.,