Peace Direct CEO, Dylan Matthews, wrote a compelling reflection on the importance of unrestricted funding and how this type of funding enabled them to respond to the earthquake emergency in Turkey and northern Syria.
Worker Rights Consortium announced that following their intervention in the matter, $1 million USD would be paid to factory workers in Haiti after the factory’s corporate ownership improperly closed it.
Think Peace Hub and the Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation (MHCR) have produced a film "Out of the Dark Into the Light," which centers around the truth and reconciliation processes that have been launched both among the Sámi and the indigenous peoples of Alaska.
Check out this coverage from The New Humanitarian on peace in Colombia and the places that still experience violence. “We continue to be ignored by the government, who view our suffering as a sort of never-ending story happening in the unimportant margins of society.”
Recently, Nicole Bibbins Sedaca from Freedom House; Richard Fontaine from the Center for a New American Security; Ash Jain from the Atlantic Council, and Tod Lindberg from the Hudson Institute came together for a great conversation on the role values should play in U.S. foreign policy.
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