On Friday, May 24th, the staff of BlazeSports America will be welcoming 18 Haitian’s to America as they arrive to participate in the annual BlazeCamp in Warm Springs, Georgia as part of the Department of State – Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs – Sport Diplomacy program. The group of Haitians includes 12 youth with varying disabilities as well six leaders that have gone through previous leadership trainings with BlazeSports funded by USAID and UN Office of Sport for Development…

“Haiti is freedom” was my friend Sabina’s answer, when I asked her why she loves it there. We were walking under palm trees, returning from a festival organized by a youth center in the coastal city of Jacmel. 



Sabina, originally from New Jersey, now lives in Haiti working on an initiative to identify successes in locally-driven…

This entry was originally posted on the Rotary Global Peace Forum Blog. The Rotary Global Peace Forum in Hawaii is January 25-27 and is an opportunity for attendees to develop strategies to progress towards a more peaceful world. Honolulu's forum invites the next generation of leaders to rise to the occasion by actively shaping the…

2012 Change the World in Africa

 This month, East meets West, but not quite in the traditional way. Peace Revolution will visit both Eastern and Western Africa during their stay in Kenya and Nigeria as part of their 2012 Change…

This blog post was originally shared on www.interfaithyouthactivist.com, specifically for youth in high-school. But, it can be applied to younger youth as well. I'm hoping you can use these suggestions for your youth communities if you're interested in interfaith engagement.

1.       Start an Interfaith Student Group in your high-school or…

Dear Peacemakers.

I would like to inform you about a new 800page MultiMedia eBook “Youth Rising for Peace”, which is being published online for the International Day of Peace, September 21.

Dedicated to the United Nations Decade for a Culture of Peace, it features 40 young and veteran peacemakers and model solutions for the full spectrum of peacemaking.

From inner city violence to homeless youth, inner peace to making ecocide a crime…

On June 6, the “Salam Shabab” TV series for Iraqi youth received the UNESCO Special Prize at the Prix Jeunesse International, the leading competition for quality children’s and youth programming. In the Prix Jeunesse announcement of the award (see below), the show was described as both “courageous” and “ravishing”.

Supported by USIP and produced by Iraqis, Salam Shabab is a reality TV show for Iraqi youth (ages 14-18) that is based on a peacebuilding curriculum.…

Last year while at my native(Silchar, Assam, India) I happened to meet a young boy aged around 22yrs at our village. I realised his face even though he's grown up, as he used to collect our cricket balls whenever it went outside the boundary field. I was touched by his well behaved behaviour and so i invited him to my house the next day early morning just to talk to him. 



Next morning Gama came to our house and we started…

At present, production and selling of drug (e.g. YABA, PETHIDINE, HEROIN, GANJA (Hemp), PHENSEDYL etc) is a very profitable business in this world. Many people in all over the world involve with this business by investing money as a producer, manufacturer and seller of those harmful drugs. By this illegal business, any…

A new project aims to counter ‘violent extremism’ by connecting former self-identified extremists with ‘at risk’ youths.

Self-identified former “extremists” and survivors have formed a social network aimed at helping young people avoid political violence and gang culture. The Against Violent Extremism network believes that radicalization is less of a religious and ideological issue…

I am currently trying to scope out my methodology chapter. There has been a lot that has been said about empowering children and youth and investing in them. But, do we invest in them methodologically?From the outset, most research processes begin and end with the researcher. With a growing trend towards action and participatory research, there is greater inclusion of the researched within the process. But, with a large amount of research being conducted with those under the age of 18 years,…

Dear Friends,

Calling allYouth

Ø  Do you want your voice to be heard?

Ø  Are you that person who cares aboutthe Caribbean?

Ø  Do you want to contribute todecision making in your country and region and shape the future?

Ø  Do you dream about an even bettertomorrow?

Ø  Do you see the strengths around you and the possibilities for change?

Ø  Would you want to connect with otheryouth and engage in conversations about key issues in our…

Dear Colleagues,



Global Human Rights Leadership Training Institute is currently accepting applications for the 2012 edition of the following online distance learning courses:

 

1.     Certificate Course on Gender and Development Training, [18th January – 17th January, 2012].



Course description:

The course seeks to examine how gender identities are formed and re-shaped as a result of the development process – and…

“To be wholly overlooked and to know it are intolerable” ~John Adams

A clear thread is woven through the fabric of the many different, and often differently expressed, social upheavals that we have been experiencing throughout the year, and that thread is the challenge of global neoliberalism to dignity. Perhaps indeed some late 21st century Barbara Tuchman will tell the story of how 2011 was 1848 or 1937. What’s important now is that we understand how our…

World Peace Through Inner Peace-By Dorcas Juliette Ramos

(http://dorcasramos.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/inner-peace/?preview=true&preview_id=68&preview_nonce=4776e9f6e8)

I was one of the twenty participants from all over the world to attend the Peace Revolution Fellowship last June in…

Between July 27- 30, 2011, Peace Revolution participated in Ignite Change Now! Global Youth Assembly 2011 at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.

The theme of the conference this year is, “OUR WORLD. OUR WATER.” The program focuses on efforts around the world by various organizations to create sustainability for the environment.

Participants at the GYA 2011 are able to deepen…

This was originally posted at Peace Direct

In London’s east End, our Truce 2020 youth project aims to give young people the skills to handle and defuse conflict in their own communities. Here the project…