Marching or signing a petition is a surefire way to find happiness, researchers say. By Robin Petré May 12, 2010 People engaged in political activism are more likely to live happier and more fulfilling lives than the average person, according to two psychologists writing in a recent issue of the journal Political Psychology. “There is […]

Aid worker Shane Dolan sits a stone building with a young Ethiopian girl. (ABC) Let me tell you the story of Shane Dolan. I met him two decades ago, when I was in Ethiopia for Four Corners, filming The Forgotten Famine. Shane was an aid worker. Not the kind who hands out food at emergency relief […]

By Madison Mullen April 12, 2010 Joanna Macy has dedicated her life to peace, sustainability and coexistence with our environment. Though she lives in Berkeley, Calif., her work has taken her to Asia, Europe and Australia, allowing thousands of people to experience with her the possibility of turning despair into social activism. A scholar of […]

by Pete Redington April 6, 2010 Last year, the soccer team FC Barcelona achieved one of the greatest seasons in the history of sports by winning both the Spanish League title, the European Champions League and four other trophies, becoming the first team ever to win the sextuple. But Barca (as it is popularly known) […]

Within hours of his death in an Israeli hospital, Ahmed’s heart, kidneys, liver and lungs were restoring life to six other people. It’s November 2005. Israeli soldiers raid a refugee camp inside the small Palestinian city of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank occupied territories. The soldiers had been there before. This […]

A group of Haitians found a 6-year-old boy still alive in the rubble three days after the earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was weak but alive. When Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) worker Ben Depp happened upon them, he was able to get a hacksaw and a flashlight that helped them complete the boy’s rescue. This […]

Many of us feel we are caught in the middle of a clash of civilizations. Where extremists wage wars of terror against terror and moderates run for cover. Well recently 138 moderate Muslims came out ‘from under the rubble’ as it were and called upon moderate Christians to form an alliance together against extremism. In […]

The Gaza Freedom March is truly an unprecedented, historic event for the global grass-roots peace movement. This is one of the largest, if not the largest, mass international solidarity action ever undertaken. Some 1,362 people from 42 nations have traveled here to Cairo in order to journey through the Sinai Peninsula into Gaza to join 50,000 […]

On Sunday 18th October, Jo Berry officially launched Building Bridges for Peace at the Duke of York Cinema, Brighton. Following the screening of the film, Soldiers of Peace, Jo addressed an audience of over 100 people setting out the aims and aspirations of the charity. Accompanied by her friend and colleague, Pat Magee, and supported […]

Fifteen years after genocide, Rwanda is showing signs of healing…I went to Rwanda recently—just a few weeks before the 15th anniversary of the genocide—to see how the church, which itself needs healing and forgiveness for its role in the affair, is dealing with the trauma today. While some wounds still run deep, and problems remain, […]

Jer31:31 “The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my […]

At the end of May 2009 in the Free State provincial capital of Bloemfontein, Vlok washed the feet of 13 former police officers and soldiers, asking their forgiveness for “setting a bad example and leading people astray”. “I have sinned against the Lord and against you,” he told them… Many former policemen and soldiers believe […]