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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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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
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
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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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![A family of six pose for a photo](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/5ivephostphoto.jpg.webp?itok=0_i9jvOR)
IVEP host insight
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Peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A screenshot from a video of a young Syrian girl. There is next on the screen that reads, "The war in Syria has been going on for 8 years."](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/cfs.jpg.webp?itok=eyTZcE47)
Child-Friendly Spaces during war
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Education, Peace
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Syria
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Several people stand close together on a blanket. They aren't wearing shoes.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/rs51153_img_3847-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=kq72qU8f)
In response to blockades:
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Peace
Location
Canada
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Objects like dolls, snowshoes and a pumpkin are used in the Blanket Exercise to illustrate the complexity of land issues.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/img6341webedit.jpg.webp?itok=Wj_lVon0)
"Walk with Me"
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Peace, Indigenous Neighbors
Location
Manitoba
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Two different footage side-by-side. The image on the left is man examining crops with three other men. The image on the right is the top a corn stalk.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/MCC%20is%20100.png.webp?itok=Bn17LK1m)
MCC is 100
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Disaster response, Peace
+2 more
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United States
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Media Type
Video story
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![A group of Zambian correctional officers pose for a photo with visitors from Canada.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/dsc_0052.jpg.webp?itok=hakknQZB)
A culture of peace
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Peace
Location
Zambia
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A medieval city wall surrounding a city that has been damaged from bombing](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/88011_aleppo_citadel.jpg.webp?itok=ZfRpfboj)
The Syrian Peace Process
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Peace
Location
Syria
Date
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![Peace camp participants](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/peace-camps.jpg.webp?itok=rTjzhJaP)
Equipping leaders at home and around the world
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Peace
Location
United States
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A man in a green jacket stands with his back to the camera. He is in a field](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/Iraq%20prayer.png.webp?itok=xIVmSrPL)
A prayer for peace in Iraq
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Peace
Location
Iraq
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![Parliament Hill (Centre Block), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_2368.jpg.webp?itok=BP4evXxg)
MCC Canada sends letters to Government Ministers
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Peace
Location
Canada
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News
newspaper
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