For Peace, Solidarity, Dignity, Healing and Art
Cover of Dignity To all those who have lost loved ones, please accept our most sincere condolences. Our deepest sympathies to the entire Haitian population and in particular to those who, prior…
Nagasaki, Japan, before and after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Adjusted version of File:Nagasaki 1945 – Before and after.jpg (rotation and scaling). Français : Nagasaki (Japon) avant et après le…
famous (Photo credit: the apostrophe) Nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre from Kenya. It is a classical instrument used by the Luo people located in the Nyanza western region in…
Ngugi’s literary works, like "The devil crucified" and "Matigari," pointed mostly to shortcomings within the Kenyan state. Now, Germany’s University of Bayreuth is awarding him an honorary doctorate. The University of Bayreuth…
Arterial Network’s 4th African Creative Economy Conference, organized in partnership with the associations Racines/ Arterial Network Morocco, will take place from the 13-15 November 2014 in the city of Rabat at the…
Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This internationally acclaimed film is the intense and triumphant story of how music kept alive the revolution against the cruelty of apartheid for…
“Music has an inexplicable way of elevating humankind to its noblest action.” Youssou N´Dour, Senegalese singer “…creative ability is a quintessential part of being human: to assert one´s Creativity is also to…
“I’ve always been slightly short with people who say, ‘You haven’t written anything again,’ as if all the nonfiction I’ve written is not writing,” Arundhati Roy said. It was July, and we…
at a seminar at Netanya Academic College (Israel) on Peace Journalism and media coverage of war. Johan Galtung is a pioneer of peace and conflict research – see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Galtung – a man…
A message to young Congolese…. There may have been days when you felt that there was not much you can do to change the situation back home (and for those on the…
English: Logo for DCPEACE, initiative of UPEACE/US (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dear Colleague, The Human Rights Centre of the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) is offering four new specialized online courses…
The damages and suffering accrued by the Haitian people over more than two centuries of intermittent occupation, foreign interference, and dictatorship are immeasurable. The present occupation has multiplied and strengthened the old…
Now countries from all over the world, from China, Nepal, and the Philippines, to countries in the Americas that might be considered “friends,” like Chile, Bolivia, and Brazil participate in the United…
10 years since the 2004 Coup … 210 years since Haiti’s Revolution Haiti Action Committee sent the following letter earlier in February 2014 Monument to Haitian hero Toussaint L’Ouverture in Parque de…
article & photos by Marilyn Langlois Left: Discussion group and street scene on the Paseo de Martí, Havana. Right: Discussion group at the Aristide Foundation for Democracy in Port-au-Prince It’s time to…
depuis belle lurette que les femmes se battent pour l’amélioration de leur condition humaine. Et, pas de doute, l’inspiration du roman d’Assia-Printemps Gibirila intitulé Elles, publié aux éditions les plumes d’Ocris, est…
A Statement from Haiti Action Committee On Friday, January 17, it was reported by news agencies that a Haitian judge investigating the assassination of Jean Dominique, a crusading Haitian journalist who was…