by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 9, 2018 | News
“We are seeing a divided world. We are seeing that misunderstandings between communities are on the rise and these misunderstandings are used to perpetuate violence,” director of the Washington DC Office of the Peacemakers Network Dr. Mohamed Elsanousi said when...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 2, 2018 | News
More than 300 leaders, including evangelical Christian Pastor Bob Roberts of NorthWood Church in Texas, former U.S. ambassador Rabbi David Saperstein and Imam Mohamed Magid of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Virginia, will gather at the Washington Marriott...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 30, 2018 | News
The theological training was also attended by the Moroccan Ambassador to Central African Republic (CAR) and CAR’s National Reconciliation Cabinet Director from the Ministery for Social Affairs. Both expressed their strong commitment to peacebuilding and...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 26, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
The northern Kenyan plains of Marsabit receive an annual rainfall of 846 millimeters. During the wet season, rain is plentiful, but in the dry season, the ground opens in cracks. So do the fault lines between local clans and communities. As the ground dries,...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 18, 2018 | News
“Representation does not translate to influence,” Fadumo Dayib begins. The former presidential candidate knows what she is talking about. Quotas and talk of women’s participation is not the same as power and influence. “Women have always had a very informal part in...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 12, 2018 | News
At the beginning of the millennium, Abdirashid Ibrahim Mohamed worked at the Secretary of the National Security Committee of Somalia. At the same time, the civil war that had led to the collapse of the Somali state in the 1990s entered a new phase. In 2006 a new war...
