By Steven Youngblood, Director, Center for Global Peace Journalism

I had the honor of being the keynote speaker recently at the American Friends Service Committee's "If I Had A Trillion Dollars" film festival in Kansas City. The festival featured peace-themed videos produced by area students. My speech, titled "Viral Peace", is below. Sorry for the all caps--it's just the way I…

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On the 4th of May MasterPeace launched their first mini-documentary ‘Music above Fighting.’ This video tells the heart-breaking stories of three people in different conflict areas who are fed up with thesituation they live in. They make music with people from the otherside of the border and tell about the conflict. The movie is filmed on theborders of India/Pakistan, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, at placeswhere the borders are…

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 The blinding glare of publicity about Joseph Kony has cast light as well on the organization Invisible Children, an NGO that produced a viral 30-minute video about Kony . However, I believe that the microscopic scrutiny of Invisible Children and the video is distracting us from the real mission here, which should be bringing Kony to justice.

 If you haven’t been anywhere near a computer the last week, the Invisible Children produced video, “Kony 2012”, that tells the story of leader…

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Soliya, a non-profit organization using a custom-made web-conferencing application to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe, is now recruiting skilled volunteers to facilitate its Connect Program for the Fall 2011 semester!…

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It gives me great pleasure to bring you up to date, with accountability and transparency, on all that ASK Academy has accomplished this year! We are working smart and making our Vision and Mission a sustainable reality; keeping schools and their surrounding communities safe and productive; supporting Equitable Learning and Social Justice.



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A series of chronicles (60x2 minutes) documenting ordinary lives of a set of characters in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel). How to go on living in a time and place of conflict? The chronicles will be the joint effort of Israeli and Palestinian film makers with the support of French producers and Arte-France and its web team. They will be aired on television and accessible on Internet in a personal, interactive and nonlinear… Continue