Big Picture
Schools Aren’t Just Buildings
Innovation education is critical in East Africa and beyond.
Tag: Conflict Resolution
Civil Society
The Promise of Mandatory Community Service
How a little-known tradition that helped rebuild Rwanda could help the rest of us.
Human Rights
Law Without Lawyers
Timap for Justice trains ordinary citizens to provide legal assistance in a country—Sierra Leone—where legal professionals are scarce.
Civil Society
Beyond Diplomacy
Civil society organizations are dramatically changing how countries bring an end to violent political conflict.
Technology & Design
Mobile Phones Build Peace
New research illustrates how we can overcome challenges facing post-conflict countries like Afghanistan through the use of mobile phones.
Government
Citizen as Designer
By shifting the responsibility of the citizen from deciding to designing, we can redirect resources away from conflict and toward creating better ideas.
Human Rights
Kony and Kissinger: Jacob and Trayvon
Reflections on social media and the struggle for justice in 2012.
Economic Development
An Agricultural Peace Dividend
In northern Uganda, home to one of Africa’s longest and most brutal civil conflicts, organic farming is producing economic growth and stability.
Excerpt
Social Entrepreneurship
Passion and Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders
Passion and Purpose is a collection of personal stories regarding success and failure in business and leadership.
Social Entrepreneurship
Skoll 2011 Interview: John Marks
Interview with John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, a nonprofit conflict-resolution organization, and head of Common Ground Productions