Comments on: Iraqi youth work to build culture of peace with support of CJP, alumni and Iraqi al-Amani Association

By: Carolyn Yoder

Carolyn Yoder — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 12:01:40 +0000

Wonderful—and I agree with Anne who says we need this here in the US! Carolyn

By: Moderator

Moderator — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:18:13 +0000

In reply to Anne. Thanks for your interest in domestic peacebuilding. The idea of replicating such a project here in the United States is intriguing and I've shared it with Daryl Byler, CJP's executive director. Our Interfaith Peace Camp, hosted by the Center for Interfaith Engagement, is one such place where young people learn about other faiths. Additionally, several graduate students have produced films and art projects featuring voices of immigrants. Each year, CJP graduate students spend many hours in the local community both practicing their skills and building peaceful community infrastructures through dialogue and mediation work, work with youth in the Boys and Girls Club and with teen refugees. This year, our Summer Peacebuilding Institute developed several classes to help domestic organizers facilitate dialogue. Read more here: And you may also be interested in the work of Better Angels, a dialogue organization that held their board meeting at 91��Ƶ this summer. We enjoyed a concert by Peter Yarrow!

By: Earl Martin

Earl Martin — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 12:34:52 +0000

How exciting! How encouraging! More power to these creative and courageous peace-builders!

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 12:11:19 +0000

This is such a joyous, hopeful message. I am grateful that CJP has been a part of yet another ray of light in so much darkness. I am thankful for the young people who a part of making peace. It makes me wonder if you could also design something to help us heal divisions here at home. It is critically needed. There are so many people, and not just immigrants and undocumented individuals, who are afraid, fearful still, of the destructive forces among us now.

By: Mary Lou Weaver Houser

Mary Lou Weaver Houser — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 11:11:19 +0000

Using the arts in this creative vision is an enormous step toward reconciliation. The arts help to interrupt preconceptions and provide alternatives for this younger generation.

Thank you for sharing this with us in America.
We have so much to learn!