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A MESSENGER OF PEACE

2008 December 3
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Despite cuts from the state budget, the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute opened yesterday in Fields Corner with the help of local donors throughout Boston.

CAMP PARTICIPANTS LEARN PEACE BUILDING, SOFTBALL

2008 December 3
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As the Generations for Peace Camp entered its halfway point, young leaders from across the world on Sunday learned about the media’s role in peacebuilding and team concepts through softball.

FROM CHILD REFUGEE TO RWANDA’S RECONCILIATION PRESIDENT

2008 December 1
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Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda and former refugee for thirty years, shares his story in a video interview and insists on reconciliation for Hutus and Tutsis.

UNITY AND RECONCILIATION WEEK CROWNED WITH AWARD

2008 December 1
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In order to strengthen the peace process in Rwanda, the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) has organized a Unity and Reconciliation Week. It also received an international award for its work.

BETWEEN ISRAEL AND INDIA, A LINK BASED ON CULTURE AND, NOW, TERRORISM

2008 December 1
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Whether in Israel, India or the United States, individuals and communities attest to the deepening bonds between Jews and Indians, where there is “a huge coming together of sympathy and understanding.”

FORMER CHILD SOLDIERS WORK TO SAVE THOSE LEFT BEHIND

2008 November 26
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Kon Kelei and other former child soldiers, along with youth leaders who have firsthand experience in conflict zones, this month launched a new Global Network of Young People Formerly Affected by War (NYPAW) at U.N. headquarters in New York.