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The children of Gambia
I’m Festus Iheanacho writing from Gambia, e-mail: festusiheanacho1@gmail.com Gambia is one of the smallest countries of West Africa, with a population of 2.5 million. The children in Gambia move from one place to the other, without fear of being raped. They walk...
Teso Youth Agricultural Production Initiative for Peace in Uganda
Article by David Adengu, email; adengudavid8@gmail.com I founded the Teso Youth Agricultural Production Initiative for Peace with the aim of reversing the agricultural challenges facing the youth in Uganda and the Teso sub-region, in particular to foster peace and...
Sufficient safe and nutritious food for everybody in the world
Author: Huub Lelieveld, Prof. Dr. h.c. H.L.M. Lelieveld is President of the Global Harmonization Initiative. It was in 2004 that newspapers reported that a shipload of food had once again been confiscated by a government because the food contained trace amounts of an...
A Food Plants International database of edible plants to address malnutrition
Author: Rick Campbell of Food Plant Solutions Contact person: Karalyn Hingston of Food Plant Solutions Every 12 seconds a child, under the age of 5, dies from malnutrition! 1 in 4 children, under the age of 5, do not reach their potential due to malnutrition! The Food...
Uncontrolled woodcutting in the Manicaland region of Zimbabwe has left many fields treeless
This blog was written by Jussa M Kudherezera from Zimbabwe. He founded Manica Youth Assembly (MAYA), a youth-based community organization advocating for peace, environmental protection and rectifying social injustices. MAYA empowers youths to take up...
Peace in Mali expected soon
A blog by Boubacar Issa Traoré, director Peace One Day Mali. Since 2012, after the military putsch which overthrew President Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali has fallen into a social and political crisis. Northern Mali has become the scene of heavy fighting between the army...
Our escape to Sinjar mountain
Brahim Khudeda 21 years old, Qadia Camp We were thinking about how to live, how to pass our days ... We never hated anyone and didn’t hurt anybody. Everything changed in one night. Before that sad night, we had heard about ISIS and what they were doing to people in...
Zimbabwe: give the youth a voice
A blog by a guest editor from Zimbabwe, Crab Nhari (pseudonym). Zimbabwe is a country in Southern Africa which gained independence from colonial rule in 1980. It has a population of around 15 million, 52% being females and 48% males. The population is young, around...
We’ve been longing for peace in South Sudan for a very long time
I am Lizzie Atong, I was born in South Sudan and raised in Kenya. I am 22 years old. We've been longing for peace in South Sudan for a very long time Many South Sudanese have been killed during the war. I still haven't lost hope yet. One day South Sudan will have...
Let’s turn back the Doomsday Clock
The symbolic Doomsday Clock is set at 100 seconds to midnight, where midnight represents humanity obliterating itself. According to the statement of the president and CEO of the Science and Security Board Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Rachel Bronson, there are...
Nonviolence is a superpower
Francois Zankeh lives in Turkey and writes about Syria, 20 May 2020 This is a call for peace from Francois Zankeh. He lived in Syria and was victim of a violent kidnapping. His life goal is to achieve peace through nonviolent means. The world is losing a lot due to...
Peace starts small, between individuals, by getting to know each other as real humans
10 April 2020, Marleen Mauritz, Russian Federation Marleen Mauritz (1969) worked in the Caucasus, North Ossetia, from September 1995 till May 1996. Although it is a while ago, we think that the wisdom she gained from it in peacemaking is universal and can still be...
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