by Anna Tervahartiala | Jul 27, 2017 | News
What is PeaceTech? To put it simply, peacetech is peacebuilding and technology combined. For decades, technology has been used in order to wage war, but now, slowly a new trend leaning to the opposite direction has emerged. Non-governmental organizations, activists...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jul 19, 2017 | News
“I firmly believe in the power of faith leaders to shape our world for good,” António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, began his speech at the United Nations Headquarters at the launch of the action plan addressing religious actors and their role in...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jul 14, 2017 | News
More than 80 percent of the world’s population belongs to a religious community. The lives of the vast majority of people are thus affected or guided by religious values or beliefs. Due to this, religions and religious leaders and actors have a pivotal role in...
by Anna Tervahartiala | May 31, 2017 | News
WASHINGTON DC/CHICAGO/HELSINKI – The Secretariat of the Peacemakers Network joined the Finnish Minister of Employment Jari Lindström on a tour in Washington DC and Chicago from the 15th to the 19th of May. The goal of the visit of the ministerial delegation was to...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Mar 31, 2017 | News
New York and Washington. The Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers and the Libyan Institute for Advanced Studies organized the visit of three women peacemakers and six tribal leaders to the United States on the 12th to the 18th of March. The visit was part...
