• Brandeis University in Massachusetts is offering a Master’s Program in Coexistence and Conflict with several scholarship opportunities. The program is geared towards professionals.
• The Summer Peacebuilding Institute in Harrisonburg, Virginia is still open for the 2012 year. The institute offers courses in development, humanitarian assistance,…

Here are some interesting links I came across this week:

• For those of you in the academic world who haven’t heard of this free citation service, Zotero, check it out. Makes collaboration, citation and organizing your sources much easier.
• In the face of the recent attention afforded to the London riots, this view is…

Imagine! Employees working collaboratively, addressing challenges, overcoming obstacles, being cordial and  an encouragement to each other.  No more watching your back or hurtful gossips.  No one is trying to bully, manipulate or get you.  Hey, you can even be vulnerable...  This is not a dream it is possible in most workplaces.

For the next 10 weeks my company is sponsoring a Peace@work initiative as part of our contribution to the global peace…

This new blog, engagingpeace.com, has several concrete purposes:…

World

• The New Economics Foundation found that the earth is using up resources faster than ever. The study monitors nature’s capital and concluded that this year the earth was using up its own natural
  
  resources to support itself a full month earlier than in the previous
  
  year.
• August 19th was World Humanitarian Day. The…

I have may have spoken too hastily in the past regarding conflict resources in the DR Congo. My rage at the inherent abuse led me to think that boycotting and protesting companies was perhaps the best way to go. I realize now, that I was wrong. This is the wrong approach.

Over the past six years, I have delved into this subject more than any other and have even gone so far as to ban all products for my personal use if I didn't know EXACTLY where they came from and what…

I arrived in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, land of cacao and coffee, almost a week ago now. It’s not my first time in West Africa. I had been to Cote D’Ivoire in 2004, and during that time experienced the violence between pro-government militias and the French peacekeeping troops. At that time, military roadblocks were common along all roadways and made travel throughout the country incredibly…

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

01 May 2010

Solidarity greetings to all toiling men and women of the Philippines and the world!…

The ITRI Tin Supply Chain Initiative (iTSCi) is making an effort to try and eradicate conflict metals from the tin industry. The extraction of raw materials in

many parts of the world funds extreme acts of violence; war crimes,

crimes against humanity, mass murder, rape, torture, enslavement, the

recruitment of child soldiers, mass abuse and displacement of people.

The complexity of…

It’s been almost two years that I have been pushing different computer companies to better track their supply chains in an effort to stop the flow on money into conflict zones. My pleas have mostly fallen on deaf ears.

While I can’t entirely endorse any of the companies’ efforts, since I feel they still fall short of being fully responsible, I feel that Hewlett Packard…