By SCOTT SIMON for NPR, October 11, 2014 Mahatma Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. A lot of people who have dropped bombs, launched missiles and made war have won the Nobel, but not the man whose very silhouette — bald-headed, wrapped in cloth, and walking in sandals across a perilous [...]

By JODI KANTOR, for The New York Times, October 10, 2014 Though Malala Yousafzai is 17, she does not use Facebook or even a mobile phone lest she lose focus on her studies. She spent her summer vacation flying to Nigeria to campaign for the release of girls kidnapped by the extremist Islamist group [...]

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Despite saving almost 80,000 children from child labour, and now adding the world’s most famous award to his name, Kailash Satyarthi has always restlessly sought to do more. By Ben Doherty, for theguardian.com, Sunday 12 October 2014 At the entrance to Kailash Satyarthi’s nondescript office is a small noticeboard, of the old [...]

Webinar: Saturday, November 8, 2014 The role of personal narratives in peacebuilding and peace obstruction Dr. Julia Chaitin, AICE Visiting Israeli Professor University of Texas Austin Read more about Julia here. Watch our website for more event details soon!   Event Details: Saturday, November 8, 2014 9 - 11 AM (Pacific Time) [...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2, 2014, By Katherine Mangan The boycott of classes that has unleashed tens of thousands of young people—many of them college students—into the streets of Hong Kong was meant to be a prelude to a mass pro-democracy demonstration that their professors and others had [...]