Peace Summit

Sean Penn Earns Big Award For Work In Haiti

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 04.25.2012

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CHICAGO — Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn gave an emotional speech Wednesday urging the world community to help Haiti as he accepted an award from...

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Pieces of the Behavior Change Puzzle

Gary Slutkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary Slutkin

Skeptics may say that violence is too culturally ingrained, that it cannot be reversed in 100 years, or 200 years, if at all, but CeaseFire's methods are proving otherwise.

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Searching for Peace Summit

Tio Hardiman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tio Hardiman

CeaseFire recently organized a Peace Summit. You could sense the tension in the air: the crowd was composed of more than 300 young men and women from some of Chicago's meanest streets.

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Peace Summit with the Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, and Nobel Laureates

Catherine Ingram | Posted 11.17.2011

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Catherine Ingram

The weekend edition of the paper was the prelude to the Vancouver Peace Summit, a three-day gathering of luminaries including the Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, Maria Shriver, numerous Nobel laureates, and a couple dozen other presenters.

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