Pairing Pups and Prisoners

Peninsula Humane Society/SPCA is pairing special-needs shelter pups with inmates at a San Mateo jail.
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1000 Acts of Kindness

The city of London, Ontario issued a challenge to perform 1000 acts of kindness. Over 2 years citizens have logged a kindness explosion of 106,760 separate acts.
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Dancing to Inspire Cultures of Peace

DANCE4PEACE is an innovative, peace education program that uses movement to inspire young people to be leaders and peacemakers in their communities. The program connects communities of dance across the globe in order to share best practices and intercultural stories of peacebuilding and violence prevention.
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Choosing Not to Hate

Even after his three daughters were killed, a Gaza doctor believes that the decades-long conflict will only be transformed when individual Palestinians and Israelis recognize their shared, precarious humanity.
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Meet a Reformed Racist The Oprah Show

In this 1989 video a guest on Oprah talks about being ashamed of his racist attitudes. When his bi-racial grandson was born it changed everything. Later he and his wife adopted two black boys.
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Creative Peace Murals

The Creative Peace Mural Society promotes international understanding through the creation of large textile murals from communities throughout the world. Each mural is designed and created by local residents and represents their culture, history and geography.
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Roots of Empathy

At the heart of the program are classroom visits by an infant and parent. Through guided observations of this loving relationship, children learn to identify and reflect on their own thoughts and feelings and those of others (empathy). Children who receive Roots of Empathy experience dramatic and lasting effects in terms of increased positive social behaviour (sharing, helping and including) and decreased aggression.
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The Elders

The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity.
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Bond Street Theater

Bond Street is a physical theater company with a social consciousness, a global view, and a sense of humor. The company creates innovative theatre works that communicate across cultural borders and brings these works to diverse audiences worldwide.
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Peace warrior for Liberia
By Leymah Gbowee, Guideposts

The story of how the women of a war-torn African nation brought the men to the peace table, told by one of its leaders.
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The Other September 11
By Mark Solomon

In September of 1893, the 11th marked the start of a very different event. In the city of Chicago, which held a great World's Fair that year, representatives came from all over the world to attend a parliament of religions.
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