Articles tagged with: Nobel Peace Prize
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Kimberly Weichel
Peace X Peace CEO
“We encourage YOU to express your voice and be the change agent our world needs.”
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I feel that 2012 will be a good year for women – at least I hope so! A number of recent trends give me inspiration and hope.
First, the recent Nobel Prize for Peace honored extraordinary women Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman for their courage and dedication to building peace in their respective countries of Liberia and Tunisia. The Nobel Committee awarded these prizes not just for the individual work …
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In WOMEN, POWER, and PEACE … at play, the theater piece Patricia Smith Melton created for our 2011 Women, Power, and Peace Awards, many voices swirl and weave together in an organic dialogue. Our audience will see the faces and hear the words of the three 2011 Nobel Peace Prize awardees, several of our own past and current award winners, and other magnificent women of peace, both famous and relatively unknown. What follows is selected from just one of the voices―the collective woman-voice we might call The Poet.
We are the …
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By Mary Liepold
Editor in Chief
This concludes our PeaceTimes series on alternative gifts. Read parts 1 and 2, and share your ideas with us in the comments.
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Videos: Look and Learn
As we’ve already suggested, there are lots of ways to give movies as gifts, and not all of them involve popcorn. (It’s great stuff, though, and very inexpensive if you avoid the microwave kind!) A world of films is waiting to be enjoyed, and more of them are more widely available than ever before.
In this section too, our quick survey mixes …
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This week I thought a lot about inspiration – to do something, to study something, to think about something, even to keep yourself from doing something. Most of the links below inspired me – I hope they inspire you in some way too. Have a great weekend!
Joan Didion on the details of war, in this case from El Salvador.
And another inspiration via Didion, this time for a rumination on development work, self-reflection, and self-presentation.
Here’s …
