Reaching and Preaching for Peace
Dec 10, 2018
Scheduled to coincide with the centenary of the 1918 Armistice that brought an end to the bloodletting of the hopefully-called-at -the-time, ‘Great […]
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Women Rising Up: Meet Yumleima, Warrior of Hope
Sep 25, 2018
Her name is Yumleima. She has the exquisite cheekbones and eyes typical of the North East. There is a baby at her […]
June Newsletter: Women Rising OR The Butterfly Project!
Jun 6, 2018
A recent Op-Ed in the Toronto Star posed this question: ‘Why are women not included in Peacebuilding efforts?’ Exactly our question. The headline […]
The Butterfly Project
Jun 1, 2017
North East India has been disrupted by civil war for decades; more than 600,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands […]
The 104: Women Rising!
Mar 21, 2017
Imagine this. Decades of death, hundreds of thousands killed. Men raiding, burning, killing, committing mind-numbing atrocities against their neighbours, retaliation following upon […]
International Women’s Day: Born an Un-Person
Mar 21, 2017
My mother was born a non-person. It was two years before little Barbara Alice Starr, unbeknownst to her, was allowed into that […]
Newsletter 3.3 Peacebuilding Women: A Festival of Women
Nov 11, 2016
Extraordinary, stunning, sobering, hopeful, disheartening, disturbing, encouraging, heart-rending – and set on the edge of the magnificent Lodhi Gardens, in Delhi: The […]
Power and the Feminine
Feb 19, 2016
A few days ago, I heard Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC Radio’s The Current trying valiantly to moderate a conversation – debate […]
Postcard #1 from Uganda: Proud to Be a Girl!
Dec 8, 2015
A classroom full of girls, Primary Four to Primary Seven, all dressed alike in sky-blue jumpers, the uniform of Atratraka Primary School, […]
Ziauddin Yousafzi: I am Malala’s Dad
Aug 6, 2015
Malala Yousafzai was no accident. She chose her parents well, parents who believe passionately in the education of girls. Long before his […]
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