Because peace cannot be imposed, but must be developed from within a community through sustained hard work, for World Peace Day, we at Pax Populi and people of goodwill around the world want to honor the beautiful peacemakers of Afghanistan. These are the brave Afghans selflessly working across their country Read more…
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…