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How Social Entrepreneurs Approach Conflict: A Study

On Ashoka Peace, we just published a blog post about a new study in the Journal of Peace Psychology that examines the way social entrepreneurs approach conflict resultion, in particular in contrast to more traditional approaches.

Read the post here, which will also take you to the study.

Added by Roshan on May 25, 2010 at 6:46pm — 1 Comment

Gandhi Redux: Naming the Elephant in the Room. Toward a Non-violent Economy

"It works with a very direct cause and effect: countries like India and China, promote 10% of their people to the middle-class, establishing them as urban consumers, but in order to sustain that they then have to take away the livelihood resources--land, water, forests--from 20% to 30% of their rural people. It creates a system of ongoing economic violence and that is what passes for development."

Such was the analysis delivered by Louis Campana at a conference on "Moving… Continue

Added by Paul Schwartzentruber on May 25, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Cafe Mediate Podcast

Mediator Certification: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? (Part 2)

In part 1 of this two-part series on mediator certification, we explored the difference between mediator…

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Added by Jeff Thompson on May 25, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

EUROPE'S BURNING!

Erle Frayne D. Argonza…

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Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on May 25, 2010 at 2:51am — No Comments

Innovative M.A. Courses offered by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, India

Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD) is functioning under the Ministry

of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.

We are offering the following new academic programmes aiming at youth development.…

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Added by Joseph Thiyagarajan on May 24, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

M.A. Life Skills Education - New Course offered by School of Life Skills Education and Social Harmony, RGNIYD

Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD) is functioning under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.

We are offering the following new academic programmes aiming at youth development.…

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Added by Joseph Thiyagarajan on May 24, 2010 at 7:48am — No Comments

The suffering of civilians

Dear Friends,

I'm sure you're aware of the suffering of civilians, especially Tamil civilians, last year as the Sri Lankan government militarily ended more than two decades of civil war in the country. Today, according to the information below, this suffering has not ended. Thus, please consider adding your name to the online petition below to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to launch an independent war crimes investigation under the auspices of the United…

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Added by Hor Hen on May 24, 2010 at 4:56am — No Comments

Discovered a source of funds through the Australian government agency AusAID

Dear Friends,

Paddy has discovered a source of funds through the Australian government agency AusAID for those of you working for a human rights organization or who are engaged in human rights work. The webs site for more information is www.ausaid.gov.au>. Please note that the initial deadline is June 15, 2010.

Please also note that you and your group may want to consider discussing whether you want to accept funds from the… Continue

Added by Hor Hen on May 24, 2010 at 4:50am — No Comments

Liberation

It is always better to watch rather than control. If you control something you will have to control it forever. It will become a constant tension in you. You will have to remain on guard, because if you relax the control will be gone. Control is not right and control is a conflict.

Those psychic energies are your energies; if you control them you will have to fight with them. If you control them they will start rebelling against you; they will give a good fight to you. And by control… Continue

Added by Hor Hen on May 24, 2010 at 4:38am — No Comments

Hunam rights workship in Philipines

Dear Friends,

Last August ICF conducted a human rights workshop in the Philippines for SOP alumni and others in the Philippines interested in human rights. As a follow up to this workshop, I'm sharing with you the written submission below of the Asian Legal Resource Center (ALRC) in Hong Kong, the sister organization of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), to update you about the human rights situation in the Philippines and to offer this as an example of a written submission to… Continue

Added by Hor Hen on May 24, 2010 at 4:33am — No Comments

42: ooof, I really love him

This week's story is one of the best love stories that I have ever heard. Someone will for sure make a movie about it :) It is love, war, politics, family issues and so much more.
Click here to listen to Sarar tell the story of the love of her life. http://tinyurl.com/sooc42

Added by Katy Gilbert on May 24, 2010 at 3:12am — No Comments

46 Congressional Candidates Oppose War Spending

Forty-six congressional candidates and 17 activist organizations

released a statement on Monday opposing any more funding for the wars

in Afghanistan and Iraq, and inviting more candidates, incumbents, and

organizations to sign on. The 46 candidates include 16 Libertarians,

15 Democrats, 14 Greens, 1 Independent, and thus far 0 Republicans (and

more may be added to the website

by the time you read this). Forty-two are… Continue

Added by David Swanson on May 23, 2010 at 10:39pm — 1 Comment

Release of The Forgotten Prisoners

Have you heard of Sarah Shourd?

Sarah is a wonderful, open-minded and compassionate young woman, who

was working to help create empathy between women from different

cultures, and a strong advocate for women's rights.

You can read her inspring blogs here about her work in the Middle East, particularly Yemen and Syria, where she was living.

Sarah wrote: "it's not hard to connect with people here when it comes

to their disdain for governments, be it… Continue

Added by zoneziwoh on May 23, 2010 at 6:32am — No Comments

RED REVOLT IN BANGKOK: OLIGARCHISM ASSAULTED

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

Good evening! Magandang gabi! Buenas noches!…

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Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on May 22, 2010 at 10:41pm — 3 Comments

Principled and Pragmatic Nonviolence

I just finished co-facilitating the Active Nonviolence (ANV) course here at Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute (MPI). ANV is a course I have helped teach here since 2005 and every year I understand the role of ANV in peacebuilding better thanks to the Mindanaoan and international participants.

This year while presenting Mahatma Gandhi’s and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s principles of nonviolence it struck me that there have been many successful nonviolent movements that have not… Continue

Added by Jonathan Rudy on May 22, 2010 at 7:54pm — 2 Comments

A Day with Dr. Galtung PART I

Dr. Galtung Workshop. May 21, 2010 PART I

Dr. Johan Galtung is the founder of peace studies and has been working in the field for more than 50 years, yes 50 years! He is 79 now and still teaching and traveling. For more information on him you can go to www.transcend.org.

We had a very small group of about six…

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Added by Paul D. LaVack on May 22, 2010 at 7:08pm — No Comments

Doctoral Researcher

Doctoral Researcher…

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Added by Guy Maginzi on May 22, 2010 at 6:16pm — No Comments

Negotiation basics...

Negotiations…

Two broad categories of negotiations are Intergrative and Distributive. In Intergrative negations two or more parties work to achieve a common goal that will be mutually beneficial, think win win. In Distributive

Negotiations two or more parties try to get as much as possible of a limited

resource. Buying a car for example.yes"">…

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Added by Paul D. LaVack on May 22, 2010 at 10:18am — No Comments

We want peace for these Indigenous People

Added by Syed Shams ud-Din on May 21, 2010 at 10:56am — No Comments

“Faith and Development” 2010-2011 SEVEN-CIFA Essay Competition

minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"">“Faith and Development” 2010-2011 SEVEN-CIFA Essay Competition…

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Added by seven fund on May 21, 2010 at 1:15am — No Comments

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