When one looks into the eyes of Khalid Qadir Mohammed, one can’t help but see the fire of passion and love for his people. When one hears his story, one can’t help but be amazed that this passion and love has never been extinguished by the pain and violence that he and the Kurdish people […]

Aram Jamal Sabir was glad to be interrupted from his work as Executive Director of the Kurdish Institute for Elections to talk with us about his passion for non-violence. He began to participate in non-violent trainings in 2004. He now teaches others about the topic. “I can’t tell you exactly when I started to believe […]

Beruk was born in 1824 at Brushy Creek near present-day Croydon in Victoria. He was brought up in the customs of the Wurundjeri people, but before he could be properly initiated his people were displaced from their traditional lands by settlers along the Yarra and Plenty Rivers. As a youngster, Beruk was said to have […]

GEOFF STRONG IN THIS age of suspicion they seem the oddest of couples: a Muslim imam and Pentecostal Christian pastor, who once wanted to kill each other. At one time both were militia leaders — and also victims — of religious conflict in Nigeria. Now they have found answers in their own faiths to become […]

Around the world, crowds took to the streets in a dozen cities last week to call on the world’s financial institutions to take greater responsibility for their actions. The Robin Hood Day of Action was a global event coinciding with Make Finance Pay, a week-long initiative pushing for a Financial Transactions Tax or FTT. Dressed […]

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 […]