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Allison Pytlak – Advocating for a Weapons Free World

Allison Pytlak – Advocating for a Weapons Free World

Allison Pytlak, the Arms Control Coalition's Campaign Manager, discusses how she got involved in advocacy and what it's like to do work that makes a difference.  Tell me how you got started. I have been very lucky. After I finished my undergraduate degree in International...

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Jaye Starr – Using the Tenets of Islam for Peace

Jaye Starr – Using the Tenets of Islam for Peace

Jaye Starr discusses how she combines her Muslim faith with social justice, humanitarian work, theater and the circus.  Tell me how you got started. I don't recall a point when I "got started," but there I was greatly influenced by three books I read as a child:...

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José Ivan Aquino – Educating for the Environment

José Ivan Aquino – Educating for the Environment

A Brazilian educator shares how he works with the capital’s marginalized people to raise awareness about the environment.  What interests you most about what you’re doing now? Currently, my greatest interest is to empower the youth of the Itapoã community (an...

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David Michel – Witnessing to Protect Dolphins

David Michel – Witnessing to Protect Dolphins

Eyewear professional David Michel discusses his experience at Taiji Cove, volunteering to prevent dolphin slaughter. “There it is: the little town with a really big secret,” announces The Cove’s trailer. (See below.) Viewers soon come to find out that Taiji’s dark...

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Josselyne Herman-Saccio – Causing a Big Shift

Josselyne Herman-Saccio – Causing a Big Shift

As a leader of transformative programs, Josselyne doesn’t just stop at transforming individuals; she’s out to change the world. Tell me how you got started. I started leading transformative programs when I was 19 and discovered it would be an access to causing peace on...

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Meg Villanueva – Bikini Advocacy

Meg Villanueva – Bikini Advocacy

The director of the Peace and Human Rights Program at Fundació Catalunya Voluntària shares how she's been living her passion since she was 10 years old. Tell me how you got started. My parents have always done peace work in the Philippines. When I was ten, l followed my...

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Emily Hine – Peace Officer in Training, Holy Sit!

Emily Hine – Peace Officer in Training, Holy Sit!

Emily was all about outer peace, until she got cancer. Now she's also focused on inner peace.  Tell me how you got started. I’ve felt the calling toward peace work since age 7, but it really came to a head in 2005 when various peacemakers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus...

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Zak Ebrahim – Choosing the Path of Peace

Zak Ebrahim – Choosing the Path of Peace

His father is a convicted terrorist, but Zak has chosen to be a peacebuilder. Tell me how you got started. Because of my life story I had been introduced to fanatical ideologies that drive people to commit acts of violence. My own father chose to pursue a life of violence...

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Cinnie Noble – A Passion for Conflict

Cinnie Noble – A Passion for Conflict

Tell me how you got started. Peace work started for me many years ago when I created the first travel agency in Canada specifically for people with disabilities. (My background at the time was a social worker - mostly with people with disabilities.) Through naivety as much as...

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Philip Hellmich – On God and Conflict

Philip Hellmich – On God and Conflict

Tell me how you got started. Really, I got started by being the fifth of ten children. Being in the middle meant that I was always seeking harmony in the family. In terms of peacebuilding, from 1985 to 1989, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone and that was big...

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