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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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![Man in a field with a basket of gourds](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Websitethumbnail.jpg)
A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
Listen now- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Podcast/audio
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Story
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![IVEP participant is crouched and feeding a baby calf with a bottle.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/image000000%281%29.jpg)
Seeing our lives through the eyes of an IVEPer
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![The damaged remains of the inside of a building](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/RS131538_3_2_00x-hpr_0.jpg.webp?itok=5Uq0VNdR)
"Everyone is entitled to dignity and safety"
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Disaster response, Peace
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
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Speech contest winner challenges illusion and privilege of peace
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Peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Children playing by a river](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-10/MicrosoftTeams-image%20%2838%29.png.webp?itok=aiuqM85i)
Peace is more than a wish at the creek
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Peace
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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Cuba: A case study on sanctions
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Peace, Disaster response
Location
Cuba
Date
Media Type
Story
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A peaceful alternative? Examining U.S. sanctions policy
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Peace
Location
Cuba + 2 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A collection of bomblets and other unexploded ordnance is ready for detonation in this 1992 photo. Addressing the problem of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left from the more than 2.2 million tons of bombs](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/LAO1992_uxo_jk003.jpg.webp?itok=OVYSc2AZ)
No reasons that can justify their use
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Peace
Location
Ukraine + 2 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Children play in the kindergarten operated by MCC partner Lajee Center in Aida Refugee Camp next to Bethlehem.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/20230118_110911.jpg.webp?itok=Sx2r3LXy)
Le Centre Lajee met en lumière la culture palestinienne
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Peace, Education
Location
Palestine and Israel
Date
Media Type
Story
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A Fresh Vision
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Peace
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Apartment building under construction with exposed steel beams and concrete](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-09/tolu-olubode-PlBsJ5MybGc-unsplash.jpg.webp?itok=IqZ_g-kZ)
When new housing makes the housing crisis worse
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Peace
Location
Ontario
Date
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Peace for the Weary
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Peace
Location
New York
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![In February 2023, Cambodian IVEP and YAMEN alumni, current participants, and future participants gathered at the MCC Representatives' house in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
From left, current YAMEN partic](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/DSC_0495%20%284%29.JPG.webp?itok=yuCh6XIL)
MCC Seek program helps young adults explore faith and culture
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Education, Peace
Location
Cambodia
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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Threads - Aug 2023 Cycles of MCC
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Peace
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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