Harvard Negotiation Project Co-Founder Josh Weiss shares how back-packing around the world opened his eyes to conflict and the important role that negotiation skills play in people’s every day lives. Tell me how you got started. I grew up in a pretty middle class town near Boston, MA. The first time I really thought about …
Guest Contributor David Hazen writes about his passionate affair with peace. I’m feeling a bit tipsy, intoxicated, drunk with the energy of peace and love — a societal sin to be so falling-down infatuated with what normal people consider to be unrealistic, impractical and wishful thinking! This wild feeling reminds me very strongly of the …
International peacebuilding trainer and expert, Robert Rivers, talks about why he’s bringing his skills back from war and conflict zones to his native Montana… to build a microbrewery. Tell me how you got started. I often tell people that I fell in love with a Mexican grandmother. When I was 19, I left the U.S. for …
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Tell me how you got started. I got started with peace work in 2007. I was looking for an experience abroad, outside of my home country of Brazil, working in the humanitarian field. As I’m a psychologist, I initially wanted something connected with mental health and my area of expertise. But it wasn’t easy without …
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Allison Pytlak, the Control Arms 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 Relations, I was a bit lost and unsure of exactly what …
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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: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Alicia: My …
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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 extremely poor area near Brazil’s capital city) to create an Ecological Park and to …
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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 secret is the capturing of dolphins (and whales) for captivity and for slaughter. The …
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 the planet in my lifetime. What interests you most about …
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 dad on a disarmament project in …
