People Building Peace Bridging Divides, Building a Better World

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Bridging Divides, Building a Better World

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Common Ground, Uncommon Courage: Five American Cities Rewriting the Rules of Community
Community Peacebuilding

Common Ground, Uncommon Courage: Five American Cities Rewriting the Rules of Community

Across the United States, from the rust-belt cities of the Midwest to the sunbaked towns of the Southwest, a quiet revolution in civic life is taking hold. Five communities — deeply divided by politics, race, and history — have chosen dialogue over discord, and the results are measurable, meaningful, and replicable. Their stories offer a roadmap for a fractured nation searching for its better self.
Democracy Starts in Room 12B: The Case for Making Peacebuilding a Core School Subject
Education & Policy

Democracy Starts in Room 12B: The Case for Making Peacebuilding a Core School Subject

American classrooms are producing graduates fluent in standardized testing and chronically underprepared for the most essential democratic skill: disagreeing without destroying. The absence of structured conflict resolution education from U.S. K-12 curricula is not a minor gap — it is a systemic failure with consequences that are already reshaping civic life. If we are serious about the future of self-governance, we must be serious about what we teach children before they ever cast a ballot.