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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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![Michelle Brenneman](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img6978acroppedwebres.jpg.webp?itok=yxLv9TOX)
MCC Ontario announces new executive director
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Peace
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![a group of six women smile in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img5538resized_0.jpg.webp?itok=TOBdc_Yj)
Women’s Global Village:
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Education, Peace
+1 more
Location
Pennsylvania
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Media Type
Story
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![women standing beside painting from Memduh Kuzay](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/margie1.jpg.webp?itok=SZIixPgS)
Art for Peace
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Peace
Location
Ontario
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![A man standing in front of a border wall](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/danielpachecoflorez.jpg.webp?itok=uQ4ZHdIM)
Challenges, goals and dreams as a volunteer
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Education, Peace
+1 more
Location
New York
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Allison sitting for a photo in front of a field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/angelyn2023.jpg.webp?itok=1eC6WFl3)
"Modern Inequality" awarded top regional essay contest prize
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Justice and Equity, Peace
Location
South Dakota
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![A woman smiling for a photo](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/sembrandopaz.jpg.webp?itok=CGp8Q_9L)
Empowering women in Colombia
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Food, Peace
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Story
menu_book
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![Two people standing for a photo. One holds a bucket and the other holds a fish](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs124241mediaspaceuploads-9044-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=h3KAQhMv)
Threads - Mar 2023 - What is Advocacy?
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Peace
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![A group of three people chatting together in the Global Center](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/kvp5254.jpg.webp?itok=qnl3xjRc)
Something Old, Something New, & Something Borrowed
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Education, Peace
Location
California
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Three Colombia women sit and sew a comforter](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/january_2015_016%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=B4ZcZIxY)
Peace is more than a wish when women talk
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Peace
Location
Colombia + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Michael J. Sharp, second from left, participates in a 2013 meeting at camp for internally displaced people in the town of Shasha, North Kivu, Eastern Congo.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/mj.jpg.webp?itok=1tIKqIi6)
Honoring peacebuilders
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Peace
Location
Africa
Date
Media Type
News
newspaper
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![Two people sit on the floor in front of a projector screen. Words on the screen reads, "Introduction to women peace makers."](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/img_1127.jpg.webp?itok=08yYz1ms)
February 2023: Peace is more than a wish with some creativity
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Peace
Location
Cambodia + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A man posing for a photo](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/wesley.jpg.webp?itok=WRAsMHv-)
The book that keeps writing itself
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Education, Peace
Location
British Columbia
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
Pagination
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