As coeditors and contributors, Dr. Harry Anastasiou, Executive Director of the Rotarian Action Group for Peace, and Dr. Pamina Firchow, a Rotary Peace Fellow and Assistant Professor at George Mason University, have initiated and led the above publication.

This issue of the Peace Science Digest was made available by the War Prevention Initiative to the Rotarian Action Group for Peace. Read additional issues of the Peace Science Digest here.

By Emily Harris, March 24, 2016, Published in NPR Keith Negley for NPR What makes people change their minds? About the really hard stuff. Covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the past three years, I've often wondered if people here ever do. This conflict is frequently described as "intractable," [...]

Learn about how Rotary Peace Fellows and Rotarians are working together to design and implement peace projects in their communities. Hear from both Fellows and Rotarians about how they got projects off the ground and how you can get involved and potentially start a project of your own! Watch the [...]

February 24, 2016, published in Vision of Humanity Nepal, Rwanda, Myanmar, Cote d’Ivoire and Georgia all made major gains in Positive Peace in the five year period from 2005 to 2015. Positive Peace represents the structures, institutions and attitudes that create and maintain peaceful societies. The Institute for Economics and Peace identified eight [...]

By Luigi Navarro and Nicole Winfield, March 24, 2016, published in The Washington Post Pope Francis kisses the foot of a man during the foot-washing ritual at the Castelnuovo di Porto refugees center, some 30km (18, 6 miles) from Rome, Thursday, March 24, 2016. The pontiff washed and kissed the [...]