• Is Global Violence Actually in Decline?
  • "If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another."

    -- Winston Churchill
    former Prime Minister of Great Britain

  • Martin Luther King Day—Celebrating A Day “On” Not “Off”

    Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, January 16, 2012, is the third Monday in January—the designated day each year to celebrate the life of a great American and world leader, Dr. Martin Luther … Read more

    News

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    Is Good News Underrated?

    The daily “News,” as it is reported on network and cable TV programs and in major print media outlets, focuses almost entirely on governmental crises, armed conflicts, violence in our cities, natural disasters, and heartbreaking stories of every kind. This … Read more

    Ending Conflict

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    Tawakkul Karman Brings The Arab Spring to Yemen

    “We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society.” Nobel citation for 2011 Peace Prize   On October 7th, 2011, the Oslo-based Nobel … Read more

    Sustainable Peace

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    Bringing Children Books and a Room to Read Them In

    Equal access to education for the world’s children remains a challenge, despite  initiatives by national and international governmental bodies to eliminate disparities due to gender and socioeconomic status. Room to Read is one organization that is making a difference in … Read more

    Ethical Leadership

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    Vaclav Havel, Leader of the Velvet Revolution, Dies at 75

    None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. – Vaclav Havel In this quote, … Read more

    Projects & Tools

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    Kiva & the Micro-Lending Revolution – Too Small to Fail

    Today there is a lot of press about the banking crisis.  The headlines blast us with news about bad loans, the need for bank bailouts and now the threat of junk sovereign debt.  All of this has made most banks … Read more

    Stories

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    Occupy Wall Street – Now in Your Hometown

    In 2008, John Zogby, CEO of Zogby International and renowned pollster, wrote a book called The Way We’ll Be, in which he talks about the transformation of the American Dream.  In the book, he discusses how his polling data identifies … Read more