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- November 2010 Newsletter
In this edition news from campus, International Peace Day, echoes from Alumni
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For Father’s Day: Giving the gift of peace
Twins Nungshi and Tashi Malik are celebrating Father’s Day by following in their dad’s peacebuilding footsteps. After seeing the impact that World Learning’s Conflict Transformation Across Cultures, or CONTACT, program had on their father, the sisters enrolled in this summer’s program to contribute to their father’s peacebuilding efforts in northeast India.
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Peacebuilding Program Nears Goal of Reaching Half the World’s Countries
World Learning’s Conflict Transformation Across Cultures summer program is marking its 15th anniversary with the ambitious goal of training professional peacebuilders in half of the world’s countries.
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SIT students learn from tragedy
Seeing conflict and tragedy from afar makes it easy to judge but hard to understand. That was one lesson a group of SIT graduate students learned during a January trip to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.
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SIT Summer Course Teaches the Art of Global Peacemaking
A Sudanese relief worker and a Pakistani woman who works to counter sectarian violence are among the more than 52 peacemakers from around the world taking part in this summer’s Conflict Transformation Across Cultures program.
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World Learning hosts event on Rwandan genocide, elections
Sixteen years after the genocide in Rwanda, the international community must do more to help citizens of the East African country secure basic human rights, according to two experts who spoke at a World Learning event marking April as Genocide Prevention Month.
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SIT Graduate Institute Accepting Applications for Summer Peacebuilding Program
Peacebuilders who want to further develop their professional skills are invited to apply for this summer's Conflict Transformation Across Cultures, or CONTACT, program offered by World Learning's SIT Graduate Institute.
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April 2009
- Dr. Paula Green on being honored by the Dalai Lama (Vermont Public Radio)
Jane Lindholm talks with international peace worker Dr. Paula Green about being honored by the Dalai Lama.
March 2009
- SIT CONTACT Faculty George Lakey shares his thoughts about nonviolent change (Swarthmore College Bulletin)
April 01, 2009 Rebel Energy -- George Lakey is unstoppable in his quest for peace and justice. (Mr. Lakey is on leave of absence from CONTACT and will return in 2010.) - CONTACT In French Launched In Senegal, March 2009
Week-long training of trainers in the CONTACT methodology for French speaking West Africa. - March 2009 Newsletter (PDF)
- December 2008 Newsletter (PDF)
February 2009
January 2009
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