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Upcoming dates:

• August 3rd
• September 14th
• October 5th
• November 2nd
• December 7th
  

June 5, 2010

Chic Dambach of Alliance for Peacebuilding and Lynn McMullen discusses Summer Fundraising Campaign.  

May 4, 2010

Mothers Day Call with two very special guest speakers who shared about the Youth PROMISE Act: Carol N. Chodroff, Counsel, House Judiciary Committee and Christian Haines, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-03).

April 6, 2010

February 2, 2010
With Lauren Abramson of Community Conferencing

Community Conferencing Mission:

To provide a highly participatory, community-based process for people to transform their conflicts into cooperation, take collective and personal responsibility for action, and improve their quality of life. Through partnerships with people, neighborhoods, governments and institutions, the Community Conferencing Center helps Maryland communities resolve conflicts and crimes within their own communities.

April 7, 2009
(Link to this call will be posted shortly)

Juan Pacheco currently volunteers as the East Coast Representative for Barrios Unidos–Virginia Chapter. Barrios Unidos is a youth violence prevention/intervention and community awareness organization. The uniqueness of Barrios Unidos, Inc., lies in its transformational approach. Barrios Unidos offers hope by exposing youth to the power of resiliency through utilizing adults and older youth who have themselves experienced and overcome the challenges young people face. Barrios Unidos believes that drawing upon the resources of adults and older youth that have made it out of the “street life,” assists youth in choosing life-affirming behavior, positive self-esteem, constructive goals, supportive community, and cultural pride. Mr. Pacheco provides many motivational speeches and presentations, as well as running educational and recreational youth groups. He founded the Kids Club/Computer Lab program, in addition to organizing many community activities.

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Azim Khamisa is Chairman, CEO and Founder of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF). Azim became a social activist after his 20-year-old son Tariq was senselessly murdered while delivering pizzas by Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old gang member. Out of unspeakable grief and despair, Azim was inspired to transform his loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness. Believing that there were "victims at both ends of the gun," Azim forgave Tony and founded TKF to stop kids from killing kids and to plant seeds of hope in their future. Share in his powerful story, gain insights into the power of forgiveness, and receive new ideas on how to forgive in your own life. In addition to the call recording, you can learn more about the power of forgiveness and download various tools on Azim's website at www.azimkhamisa.com .

February 6, 2009
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Hiroshima survivor Takashi Tanemori did us the great honor of filling it at the last moment when our scheduled speaker was unable to make the call due to an emergency. A young boy living in Hiroshima when America dropped the world's first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, Takashi explains,  "I was less than one mile from ground zero.  Although I survived, I lost six members of my family at age eight, including my parents.  When I buried my father, my entire world was devastated beyond the ravaged landscapes."His life-long struggle through the 'path' of Hiroshima has brought him home to his real promise to his father, to a place called "Peace through forgiveness."
   

January 6, 2009
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Our guest for our first call for 2009 was Lisa Schirch, professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University and program director of the 3D Security Initiative. 

Along with other peacebuilding initiatives, Lisa discussed a recent memo to the Obama Adminsitration, entitled "Building Bridges and Preventing Conflict," written by The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), the 3D Security Initiative and Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). You can  download the memo here (PDF) 258.86 Kb.