By Peter Ginsberg There are plenty of anti-bullying programs out there. But what if there was a program to change the very nature of classroom culture? That’s what Positive Classrooms is. It’s a 30 day educational program developed by singer/songwriter Glenn Marais and social worker Lynette Rumble, and it is available [...]

By Maciej Bartkowski, published in Open Democracy, May 12, 2015. Since the annexation of Crimea and the start of conflict in eastern Ukraine, the Russian form of hybrid war that spearheaded these events has raised significant concerns among eastern European states about an effective response to non-traditional warfare. Russia’s hybrid war – [...]

By Xiao Meili, published in The Opinion Pages of  New York Times, May 13, 2015. BEIJING — I didn’t think much of it when the police took away five of my friends and fellow feminist activists in early March for planning a protest against sexual harassment on public transportation in Beijing. [...]

There has been a wonderful response from Rotarians and Rotary Peace Fellows from around the globe providing us with additional information about agencies helping with relief efforts in Nepal. See our updated list below. The Rotarian Action Group for Peace has reached out to Rotary Peace Fellows who are living [...]

By Ivan Watson, Tim Hume and Kocha Olarn, CNN A top Malaysian official says the surge of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh seeking asylum in his country and neighboring Indonesia in recent days is unwelcome -- and his government will turn back any illegal arrivals. "We cannot welcome them here," Malaysian Deputy Home [...]

May 15, 2015, published in Vision of Humanity. Why data and measurement are so important in the pursuit of more peaceful societies. Peace is notoriously difficult to define and even more difficult to measure. The Institute for Economics and Peace believes that in measuring peace we can identify the social, [...]