CPNN (Culture of Peace News Network) bulletin of July 1, 2018

SLOW NEWS FROM AFRICA

While the headlines are mostly pessimistic about peace, there have been two stories that give us some hope for solutions to two of the longest running international tensions. In Korea, there are some positive assessments coming out of the summits between the Presidents of the two countries and the summit of the Presidents of North Korea and the United States. Similarly, there are some positive assessmens of the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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CPNN (Culture of Peace News Network) bulletin of May 1, 2018

IS THERE PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE?

We started off this year with news that South and North Korea would hold high-level talks and that they would compete jointly in the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. That came off well. “In PyeongChang, the world became one,” said Lee Hee-beom, head of the PyeongChang Organizing Committee. “Transcending the differences of race, religion, nation and gender, we smiled together, cried together, and shared friendship together.”

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University of Peace in Africa: Call for Registration

UPA Campus, Huye RWANDA, July 15 - August 5, 2018

Dear members of the Network of Institutions and Foundations for Peace in Africa,

Dear PANAFCI Members,

Dear members of the Emmaus Network,

Dear members of the WANEP Network,

Dear Academics and Peace Activists

The Africa Peace University (UPA) Team presents you and your partners with its Call for Registration for the 2018 UPA Session in Rwanda.

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CPNN (Culture of Peace News Network) bulletin of December 1, 2017

STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

On November 25, 1960, the Mirabal sisters – three of four Dominican political dissident sisters – were murdered by order of Dominican dictator (1930-1961) Leonidas Trujillo, and since 1999, the United Nations General Assembly, designated the date as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in their honor. Is it our imagination or was the day not marked this year by actions that were stronger and more widespread than ever before?

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