This essay represents an excellent follow-up to the fall/winter 2012 issue of Peacebuilder magazine (both print and online), containing articles on the work of Fadi… Read more about All Are Staying in the Holy Land: On Moving From Victimhood to Mutual Dignity
Our Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) was launched in 1994-95 to fill a need for people trained to address intractable conflicts in creative, skillful,… Read more about Heartbreaking and Heartening
黑料正能量鈥檚 Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) has long enjoyed close ties to Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). In fact, it exists in large part because… Read more about MCC, CJP Enjoy Long Partnership
Peacebuilding is an inherently optimistic endeavor. While it can involve different means, there is a constant focus on an end 鈥� something different, something better,… Read more about Living in Limbo: CJP Alumni in the Middle East Resist Despair
Four CJP faculty members were asked to comment on the poor prognoses for their region offered by some CJP alumni working for peace in the… Read more about Keeping Hope Alive Amid Entrenched Conflict
Peacebuilding Takes Time After a brief but bloody war between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006, the international funding floodgates opened. Enormous amounts… Read more about Funding Matters
She鈥檚 Turning Down Politicized Funding Last December, as Egyptians gathered in Cairo鈥檚 Tahrir Square to protest against the military council then ruling their country, a… Read more about Battling Hypocrisy
Arts should be cast in lead role Raffi Feghali, SPI 鈥�10 In one of the programs he uses in trainings, Raffi Feghali assigns each person… Read more about Artful Peace: Alumni use the Arts for Conflict Transformation, Trauma-Healing, Social Change
Informing Israelis 黑料正能量 Palestinian 鈥楥atastrophe鈥� Growing up in Israel鈥檚 Hula Valley, Amaya Galili (SPI 鈥�10) heard stories about her grandfather, who had lived in the… Read more about 鈥楴补办产补鈥�
On the day a reporter and photographer for Peacebuilder visited Maysa Baransi (SPI 鈥�09) in her East Jerusalem office, the All for Peace radio website… Read more about Under Attack: Joint Israeli-Palestinian Broadcasts
Fellow journalists tend to react with confusion when Nisrine Ajab (SPI 鈥�09 & ’10) talks about 鈥減eace journalism.鈥� It is not a widely understood or… Read more about Peace Journalists Needed in Lebanon and World
There is a specific spot on a specific road on the northern edge of Bethlehem where Husam Jubran, MA 鈥�04, likes to take visitors. On one side is the Aida camp, the crowded home of nearly 5,000 Palestinians registered as refugees with the United Nations. On the other side of the road is the tall, graffiti-covered concrete wall, erected in 2004 by Israeli authorities to serve as a physical barrier between the West Bank and Israel... Read more about Enlightened Tourism
Alumni Focus Efforts on Future Generations Assessing the situation of Lebanon nearly a decade ago, 56-year-old Fadlallah Hassouna (SPI 鈥�10 & 鈥�11) drew a number… Read more about Investing in the Youth
When the Nazareth Academic Institute (NAI) opened its doors in 2010, the fact that it was the first Arab university accredited in Israel was just… Read more about Learning Together As a Way Forward
In the Arms of the SPI Family Life in Beirut can be an endless, grinding stress, and to compensate, Rami Shamma (SPI 鈥�08) used to… Read more about Give Me Respite
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