—San Diego, California, USA— What is Mayan Law? Mayan law, or derecho Maya in Spanish, is a system of indigenous…
THE GREAT DIVIDE: REFLECTIONS ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER
— San Diego, California, U.S. — Last night, listening to Krista Tippett’s interview of the famous Mexican-American author, poet and…
THE ESSENCE OF PEACE – COMMUNITY, POLICE, COLOMBIA
— Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia — When I first worked up the plan to spend a month in Bogotá, Colombia, between…
DREAMING TOGETHER #CAISMYHOME
—San Diego, California, USA — This amazing campaign launched yesterday by the California affiliates of the #ACLU speaks largely to…
A NIGHT OF STORIES FOR PEACE: JOURNEYS
— San Diego, California, USA — Together with a group of our colleagues, we have been working hard to plan…
SILENT ABUSE: VIOLENCE ON THE MEXICAN MIGRANT TRAILS
–San Diego, California, USA– The following is a conflict analysis on the structural violence affecting Mexican and Central American migrants…
ON RACE
–New York, New York, USA– I made the essential trip on the tourist guidebook to Johannesburg’s famous Apartheid Museum. Like…
UBUNTU
–Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa– As my former president pointed out a couple of days ago with a quote from Mandela,…
LISTENING AND UNDERSTANDING WITH COMPASSION
–Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa– We so often thrive off being amongst people with our similar values, viewpoints and theories of…
THE SONG BENEATH THE WORDS
–Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa– As cosmopolitans, as peacebuilders, as empaths, as scholars – we must listen and listen closely. For…
peace, unpacked 