The “Vagina Monologues” author on why knowing your body can shake up the world.
Mental health
How one man’s journey changed everything I knew about the Middle East conflict.
Instead of prison, New Zealand chooses restorative justice and community problem-solving.
Ex-cons show each other the way out at San Francisco's Delancey Street.
How a grieving mother put compassion before vengeance, and found closure along the way.
Supporting the bond between inmates and their newborns gives these families a better start.
Lessons of dedication, solidarity, love, and recovery, five years after Katrina.
5 steps to courageous conversations about race and culture.
Breaking the cycle of war making: our country will not find peace until we take responsibility for our wars.
A call for beloved communities from Grace Lee Boggs: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility."
When Katrina hit New Orleans, medics on bicycles toured the city bringing relief where other agencies failed to show.
The work of peace building in South Africa and elsewhere is largely a rehumanizing process, calming fears by destroying dehumanizing stereotypes.
It's not coincidental that throughout history the most violently despotic and warlike societies have been those in which violence, or the threat of violence, is used to maintain domination of parent over child and man over woman.
Fleeing the violence of Burma's military rulers, Shan women create a sanctuary and a power base by working together.
More than a hundred years after it helped overthrow the Queen of Hawaii, the Congregational Church musters the courage to face its past and apologized for the church's role in “the unprovoked invasion of the Hawaiian nation.”
The Compassionate Listening Project is a reconciliation effort based on the ideas of Gene Knudsen Hoffman, a Quaker peacemaker. Participants are trained to listen respectfully to all sides of the conflict, with a goal to build the international constituency for Mideast peace while offering a practical tool for conflict resolution.
A recent class-action suit by black farmers against the USDA fails to stem the loss of land by African American farmers.
Making Amends by John Bond - Australian Journey of Healing
Although public opinion has turned against the use of landmines, a large number remain active, a lethal reminder of wars long over. One group of Americans and Vietnamese are removing landmines and restoring an indigenous ecosystem ...
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