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Non-Violence
Shreen Abdul Saroor Wins 2008 Voices of Courage Award
2005 Echoing Green Fellow Shreen Abdul Saroor has dealt with war and displacement her entire life. In 1990, she and her family were forced to flee their Sri Lankan home after persecution by a militant sect. Inspired by her family’s hardship, Shreen dedicated her life to helping women facing violence and oppression.
January 31, 2008 - 5:59pm
Sasha Chanoff's Thoughts on the Violence in Kenya
The post-election violence in Kenya has been troubling to many members of the Echoing Green community. To share his opinion on the situation, 2006 Echoing Green Fellow Sasha Chanoff, founder of Mapendo International, wrote an editorial piece for the Boston Globe. In it, he discusses the problem of simply blaming the violence on tribal conflict, and urges everyone to contemplate the influence of poverty and politics on the Kenyan people.
January 25, 2008 - 4:50pm
Bridging the Arab-American Divide through Social Media
Leave it to an Echoing Green Fellow to apply cutting-edge social media technology to the intractable cultural divide between the west and the Arab & Muslim world. Soliya, the brainchild of 2004 Echoing Green Fellows Lucas Welch and Liza Chambers, provides video conferencing and training tools to facilitate dialogue between university students. Their powerful project was profiled in the lead story of CNN's Inside the Middle East last week.
Lucas recently reports:
December 3, 2007 - 4:26pm
Eric Dawson
Peace Games
1996 Echoing Green Fellow
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Education & Youth Leadership, Non-Violence
Dr. Michael A. Bengwayan
PINE TREE
2001 Echoing Green Fellow
La Trinidad, Philippines
Arts, Culture, Humanities, Civil and Human Rights, Community Improvement & Economic Development, Education & Youth Leadership, Environment, Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, Non-Violence, Public Service
Van Jones
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
1994 Echoing Green Fellow
http://www.ellabakercenter.org
San Francisco, California, United States
Community Improvement & Economic Development, Education & Youth Leadership, Non-Violence
Liza Chambers and Lucas Welch
Soliya
2004 Echoing Green Fellow
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Community Improvement & Economic Development, Non-Violence
Randy Parraz and Scott Sherman
Transformative Action Institute
2005 Echoing Green Fellow
http://www.transformativeaction.org
Santa Ana, California, United States
Non-Violence
Mark Hanis
Genocide Intervention Network
2006 Echoing Green Fellow
http://www.genocideintervention.net
Washington D.C., United States
Non-Violence
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