PEACE & JUSTICE

A fair world lays the foundations for peace.

Iraqi Families on the Borders

by Johnny Barber

posted Feb 13, 2009

Families share their stories of escape and survival.

4 Ways to Fix the Farm Bill

by Anna Stern, Madeline Ostrander

posted Feb 13, 2009

A "Food Bill" instead of a Farm Bill.

Art and Upheaval :: Photos from the Book

posted Feb 13, 2009

This photo-essay features images from William Cleveland's book Art and Upheaval. The book tells remarkable stories about artists who resolve conflict, heal unspeakable trauma, give voice to the forgotten and disappeared, and restitch the cultural fabric of their communities.

Visual Learning: Week of Nonviolence

posted Jan 27, 2009

Use this photo to ask your students what they notice and are wondering. Then share the facts behind the image to connect to greater understanding and discovery.

Connect and Engage: Making History

posted Jan 16, 2009

To teach happiness, be happy. Teachers, in particular, need support to be passionate and content in a challenging profession. The Center for Courage and Renewal's "Courage to Teach" supports this belief with essays, articles, and a retreat program.

Obama: No Human Being is Illegal

by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez

posted Nov 14, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama's resounding victory is a generational victory. As one friend told me, it is 400 years in the making. In that sense, that explains the tears and the dancing in the streets across the nation and across the suddenly very small world we live in...

Quote :: issue 46 :: Split This Rock

posted Nov 12, 2008

“I dream of a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’”

Quote :: issue 41 :: Cornel West

by Cornel West

posted Nov 12, 2008

America—this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of the NO into the YES, needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and remake it.” Cornel West.

The Power of Forgiveness

posted Nov 04, 2008

The Power of Forgiveness explores the challenges and reveals how forgiveness can transform your life.

Prison Meditation

posted Nov 04, 2008

East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison—the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system—is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program.

YES! Film Picks :: The Power of Forgiveness

by Carol Estes

posted Oct 31, 2008

This thoughtful film recounts the stories of people who have suffered almost unbearable losses and invites us into their struggles to forgive. The film also explores the life journeys of Holocaust-survivor Elie Wiesel and Vietnam War-survivor Thich Nhat Hanh. Both found so much power in forgiveness that they have made it the centerpiece of their life’s work...

People We Love :: Thomas Dart

posted Oct 31, 2008

A Chicago sheriff is resisting the push from banks to evict residents of foreclosed properties, including rent-paying tenants.

Signs of Life :: Bolivia Constitution Reform Likely

by Jim Shultz

posted Oct 31, 2008

Bolivia is poised to pass a new constitution aimed at providing indigenous autonomy, land reform, and popular control of natural resources.

Life Reclaimed

by Madeline Ostrander

posted Oct 31, 2008

After growing up amid violence and harassment, Jarid Manos found a way out for himself and for troubled youth—restoring prairie ecosystems.

Connect and Engage: Addressing Fear

posted Oct 27, 2008

Here are lesson plans and how-to resources forcoming to terms with false assumptions about immigrants, the current economic crisis, and walls that separate important relationships. Simply put, it’s about addressing fear with clarity and calmness.