Happy New Year!  Welcome to 2012 and a new year of juicy peace links.
Here are a few that I’ve already posted on Facebook and Twitter, but these are articles that really struck me over the holidays:

On women as spoils of war in Somalia.
Study finds that women vets are less supportive of war than male vets.

And some new gems:

NPR on women and the future of the Arab Spring
A Jewish perspective on what you can do over the long MLK weekend. (It’s coming up soon!)
Some human rights observers might not be so …

Donna Toliver Grimes
Mary Liepold interviews Donna Toliver Grimes about her work in the peace movement.
Who are you, Donna? How do you describe yourself?
I am the Poverty Education and Outreach Manager in the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development. I am also a catechist in my parish and active in JustFaith, an exciting adult education program that works in parishes. I have served on the National Council of Pax Christi USA, which partners with Just Faith, and currently serve on the DC-Baltimore Regional Board. …

-  by Abby Smith
Happy New Year!! 2012 has arrived, and it is once again time to start taking applications for the Peace X Peace Mentorship Program that we launched in the fall of 2011. This program seeks to match professional women with an affinity for peace with young aspiring peacebuilders. We here at Peace X Peace find infinite value in mentorship, so we are looking forward to the next round of the program.
A recent study found that women say it is important to have a mentor and that most young …