Published in Building Peace, March 2015. The latest issue of Building Peace, #PeaceTech, explores the potential—and limits—of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and other tools to positively influence peace and development. Our authors offer first-person perspectives, policy analysis, and innovative insights, exploring everything from online platforms that connect citizens and support civic engagement, [...]

By Kate Sommers-Dawes, November 19, 2014, published in Mashable. It's been 25 years since the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child and UNICEF is marking the milestone with an interactive call to action. The UN agency, which works on behalf of children globally, has [...]

By Finnegan Schick, Yale Daily News, Wednesday April 8th, 2015. Speaking to a sold-out Woolsey Hall on Tuesday, Buddhist leader His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje decried the degradation of the environment and encouraged environmental activism rooted in a spiritual connection to nature. Addressing Yale students, faculty and the [...]

Gary Haugen, TED Collective compassion has meant an overall decrease in global poverty since the 1980s, says civil rights lawyer Gary Haugen. Yet for all the world's aid money, there's a pervasive hidden problem keeping poverty alive. Haugen reveals the dark underlying cause we must recognize and act on now. [...]

The Rotarian Action Group for Peace has concluded our election to fill four vacancies on our Board of Directors. The term of office is three years, commencing July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018. Elections information:  All "Members in Good Standing” (i.e. current on membership dues) were sent a ballot [...]

Published on April 22, 2015 in Vision of Humanity Earth Day is held on April 22 every year to bring attention to environmental protection. Earth Day encourages thinking on respond to changes to population densities, demands on resources and climate change. The Environment and Peace Where people live, their access [...]