Pakistan is in the grip of the most devastating flood in recent history with reports of more heavy rain to come. It’s a situation United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the worst natural disaster he has ever seen: “In the past I have witnessed many natural disasters around the world, but nothing like this”. […]

By Barbara Deutschmann The Reconciliation Barometer (www.reconciliation.org.au), a measure of progress with reconciliation in Australia, tells us that Indigenous and other Australians have some important things in common. Both groups agree that the relationship between Indigenous and others is important. Both see themselves as good at sport, good-humoured and friendly, although we are not as […]

Here’s a brief summary of our time together at Voices for Justice in Canberra: 320 participants of all ages from around the country We held more than 140 appointments with MPs and Senators 67 Politicians signed the Giant 40 metre scroll, including then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott who also addressed us […]

A town reinvents the Net. By Bill McKibben June 7, 2010 Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved to the south end of Burlington, Vt. in 2000. He recalls, “We’d landed in what we thought was our dream neighborhood. It was walkable, near the lake, full of trees. But we were having trouble getting to […]

The 2010 Football World Cup takes place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010, the first time the event has taken place on the continent of Africa. Click here for a range of useful web links and teaching resources to help you explore and celebrate this festival of football in the classroom. CAFOD […]

prayingforchange.com is a new prayer initiative to equip people to pray intelligently for issues of justice and compassion. Together we want to seek our God of justice and ask for mercy, for light instead of darkness, for hope instead of despair in the relationships and places that are in need. The central idea is to […]

bshirts.org has officially launched and we are super excited about bringing this simmering idea to the boil in 2010! Some t-shirts try to convince others of your ideas, but bshirts remind you of who you want to be. Each shirt promotes an idea or value, and the wearer aims to live that value in their […]

Turning a crisis for the banks into an opportunity for the world! Jubilee Australia is delighted to be coordinating a broad alliance of development organisations, green groups, think tanks, unions, faith communities, to bring the Robin Hood Tax down under. A global phenomenon, the Robin Hood Tax, is a suggested “tiny tax” on financial transactions that could raise hundreds of billions […]

The Charter for Compassion is the result of Karen Armstrong’s 2008 TED Prize wish and made possible by the generous support of the Fetzer Institute. It will be unveiled to the world on November 12, 2009.   Why a Charter for Compassion? The Golden Rule requires that we use empathy — moral imagination — to put ourselves […]

TEAR is committed to working for change – change in the world, change in the church, change in people’s lives. But we know that we can’t really change anybody else but ourselves. In the Beatitudes, Jesus blesses all those who work for change by practising the Be-Attitudes that embody the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. […]

Pace e Bene launched its new website this week. Check out all the resources it offers for the nonviolent journey! http://paceebene.org/

Peace Prints: the South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding provides a forum for academics and practitioners in South Asia to share their experiences internationally while at the same time receiving insights from projects around the world. The inaugural issue focuses on strategic peacebuilding. The articles cover a variety of issues from academic papers personal experiences. These […]