Zoe
USA
How well do we understand peace, the condition that enables us to conduct our daily lives and pursue our goals? How can we achieve peace on social and global scale if we cannot measure and track it?
With the Global Peace Index team, I work towards expanding our collective understanding, research and pursuit of peace. Without peace, we will not be able to address the global challenges we face today. Indeed, peace is the prerequisite for survival of society as we know it in the 21st century because without peace we …

- by Mary Liston Liepold
In May we celebrated mothers all month long. (Our Mom X Mom virtual event on Facebook was such a success that we’re still celebrating.) In June we’re focusing on fathers and other men of good will, our honored partners in the pursuit of peace. At different times this month, I sat down with four peacebuilders I admire: in alphabetical order only, Michael Henderson, HawaH Kasat, Len Traubman, and Alfredo Sfeir-Younis. If you’ve visited our website lately you may have met them already, in Voices from the …

Level: Personal—Peace Principle: Witness
This week’s featured story came in from Chicago, IL, USA:
After a long, not so relaxing weekend, I was really looking forward to a soothing bubble bath to recenter myself.  But after reading This Week’s Peace Action, I will go without this luxury.  And I will do so in honor of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
The World Day to Combat Desertification is observed every year on 17 June. This year, the Day’s theme is “Conserving land and water = Securing our common future “.
In my …