We created a Facebook discussion group called “PaxAF” to serve as a kind of “meeting place” for Afghans and their supporters who want to work for peace and don’t think that peace in Afghanistan is impossible. (See: www.facebook.com/groups/paxAF.) I have always believed that peace will come to Afghanistan when there Read more…
One of our most exciting people-to-people peacemaking initiatives is the Pax Populi English Tutoring program in which fluent English speakers engage in conversational English classes with Afghan students via Skype and other electronic media. (This was discussed in the June 2011 post.) To extend this program to new students, we Read more…
A retrospective of Applied Ethics/Pax Populi work in 2011 has been posted at the following link.
A few months ago I wrote about the Pax Populi effort to bring a young Afghan woman named Hila to study at Marblehead High School, in Massachusetts. Everything seemed poised for success, and there is no doubt whatsoever that we should have succeeded. However, due to the unfortunate decision of Read more…
Pax Populi needs your help. We believe that we can best contribute to peace in Afghanistan through education and economic development in the context of human rights. But this isn’t just a theory or a cute idea — we need to act on our ideas or they mean nothing. We Read more…