March 14, 2008 The Boston Globe
The presidents of Sudan and Chad yesterday signed a peace deal aimed at preventing armed groups operating along their shared borders from destabilizing the region. The deal commits both nations to implement past accords that have so far failed to help end violence in the area. If successful, the deal would represent one small but important step toward ending violence in Sudan’s Darfur region.
March 13, 2008 Conversation Week
Get ready for Conversation Week, March 24-30. The top ten questions that will form the basis of the conversations to take place in cafés, libraries, schools and living rooms all around the world have already been posted. Check them out and find out how you can get involved in this unique and wonderful initiative.
March 07, 2008 The Washington Post
Karen Armstrong, authour of numerous books about the world’s religions, recently won the illustrious TED prize. Upon accepting her award, she spoke of the core of compassion within all faiths, saying that we must learn how “to make the compassionate ethos speak to our torn, divided world.” Read Eboo Patel’s discussion about Karen Armstrong and the famous TED prize.
March 04, 2008 The Washington Times
Mr. Hendi, an American citizen born in the West Bank city of Nablus, is one of the best-known Muslim proponents of interfaith dialogue in the United States.
He has created the annual Hanukkah-Hajj-Christmas celebration and teaches, along with a priest and a rabbi, a popular class called Interreligious Encounter and Dialogue at the university of Georgetown. Read about Mr. Hendi’s work here.
March 02, 2008 The Huffington Post
Scott Kurashige, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, argues that Obama’s campaign has tapped into the unmet desires of millions of Americans for a more authentic and visionary politics. Kurashige says that Obama’s vision appeals to a new class of voters that cuts across traditional ideological and party lines of Left and Right, Democrat and Republican, which he identitfies as the ‘New Progressives’. According to Kusharige the ‘New Progressives’ constitute the largest values-defined bloc in America, followed in order by social conservatives, big business conservatives, and New Deal liberals. Read about the values that unite this important new voting bloc.
