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The Vagina Monologues
... "The spotlight of this years V-Day [at UCSD] addressed the plight of woman in conflict zones because war often renders women especially vulnerable to crimes of violence."
Tostan
..."Molly Melching went to Senegal to do field research for a few months right after college and basically never came back ... She is the founder of Tostan, a Senegal-based NGO that uses education based on human rights to empower families and communities in Western Africa."
The Earth's Bright Future
..."Sir Richard Branson has launched The Virgin Earth Challenge, offering a $25 million reward to the scientist (or group of scientists) that develops the technology to remove carbon dioxide from the earths atmosphere."
A Peace Party
...More than 100 people attended, including representatives from about twenty peace action groups in the greater Boston area, each of whom had a couple of minutes to describe their current activities."
A Life Free of Violence Is Our Right
.."In the past ten years UNIFEM has made great strides with the help of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, and to bring this issue to the table of the international community."
Concert Co Exist
..."A young Lebanese man and university classmates who had come together to fund raise for Lebanese and Israeli victims of war organized the concert."
"A Candle" A song to give peace a chance
..."I am a social artist that belongs to the New Song Movement (Latin folk)... I know what violence is I grew up with it, my family was affected by it. ."
Paul's Peace Pole
..."A Peace Pole acts as a silent prayer and message (May Peace Prevail On Earth) for peace on Earth and there are hundreds of them now planted into Mother Earth in many countries.."
Diego Rivera, the Father of Guadalupe
..."how Diego Rivera, a man impassioned about his own dream of a Culture of Peace, painted for his people"
A Grassroots Initiative for Peace When A Name Doesnt Matter
..."I expected to see only a small handful of people to attend. Instead, a group of more than 60 people showed up to join the round table discussion and to decide what actions they might engage in."
Peace Walks
... "The peace parade is just one of many parades planned for 2007 taking place around the world Canada, Egypt, Austria, Italy, Japan, and San Diego, California led by religious and political leaders, celebrities, and members of the community to promote world peace and global unity."
African Adventure
..."I had the opportunity to go to Arusha Tanzania with the Arusha Project, a nonprofit organization ... for HIV positive people to fight the stigma connected with virus."
UNA-USA San Diego 2006 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award
..."Laurel and her work have represented the Culture of Peace ... since the 1960's, her passion to establish a visual language regarding "Kindred Spirits" has been applied in various forms throughout her lifetime--all depicting joy, wisdom and warm messages of promoting humanity, environment and peace between all."
Peace and Ghostly Matters
..."The slaves, immigrants, the colonized, the poor. . .they all become "ghosts." They are denied the right to tell their own stories, or to write their own history."
Youth Television Creates Peace
.."Youth in areas of ethnic conflict are hooked on serial television programs that promote peace by example, and show kids from all backgrounds the commonalities they share."
Peace Walkers - Peaceful Voices of Dissent
..."On October 28, 2006, Arun Gandhi will lead a PEACE PARADE in Hollywood, California."
Global Volunteering
..."I went to a small village in Paraguay to visit a friend of mine on her Peace Corps assignment."
Summit Conferences in Havana and New York
..."Both summits supported peace, but the Non-Aligned Summit was more explicit."
My Enemy Forgotten
..."Lebanon will rise once more."
International Day of Peace Celebrated in Every Country
..."Partly it is due to better organizing, but perhaps it also represents an increased global demand for peace."
College Students Search for Innovative Methods of Peace
... "Hopefully, the forum participants will remember their own personalized role-playing of Sadat, Rabin, and Hussein I, and hold dear to the knowledge they can create change for today that can last well into tomorrow."
Liberia Follows South Africa's Lead Toward A Peaceful Society
..."The future and the stability of our country will remain in doubt unless we face ourselves as a people, unless we tell the truth of what we did to ourselves and to our nation."
Eighth-grader crosses California to Conduct Research on Eleanor Roosevelt
Participate in Democracy: Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, could Mexico be next?
Blix Issues Disarmament Report
.."The report had many recommendations for countering nuclear, biological and chemical weapons proliferation."
Model United Nations - Peace Building With Youth
..."This process allows students to resolve issues based on their research, creativity, and problem-solving abilities, utilizing doctrines such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Charter, and Millennium Goals."
James Nachtwey: An Anti-war Photographer
..."He has chosen to treat his subjects with respect, and in doing so has become an advocate for them."
The Role of I-house in Culture of Peace
..."All people, no matter what language they spoke or whatever religion they belong to, joined in and danced long after the music was over."
Women vote in Kuwait for the first time
..."Even though none of the 28 women won a seat in this parliamentary election, I believe it was a big success, at least a loss lined with success."
For When the Rain Stops...
..."my colleagues and I have been working on a leadership initiative called Leadership 21st Century."
Worldwide Video Gaming for Clean Water
... "It engages you in critical environmental problems now faced by hundreds of millions worldwide."
Reebok and Human Rights
... "11 past award recipients, the 4 new ones, along with youth dancers all joined together dancing and signing to Bob Marley's Get Up, Stand Up!"
Peacemakers in Prison
... "Perhaps, beginning in 2011, the next decade might be 'The Decade of Reconciliation'".
Intercultural Interplay
... "The Intercultural Communication Workshop also provided methods on how to effectively communicate cross-culturally."
Event to Benefit Water for Life
..."In the Zen lounge, surfers went wild with Spoken Gun's performance."
Bridges of Understanding
..."to witness how Germany has dealt with its Nazi past"
Peace through Art
..."the children of the world, our next generation ... have proven, though Art Miles, that they have the capacity to make progress in the global movement for a culture of peace "
Women in Decision Making
... "a super mix of seasoned professionals, strong women leaders, and young enthusiastic and highly qualified idealists"
My Encounter with St. Francis of Assisi
... "During the bloody struggle between Christian Crusaders and Muslims in the Middle East he met in person with the Sultan of Egypt to promote friendship instead of conquests." |
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