The project was developed by Alexander Marcopoulos, a grade ten student in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Project for Peace was launched into order to raise awareness about children living in war torn countries or recovering from conflict. Our goal was to share ideas about how solve the problems of children living in conflict zones, raise...
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A Settlement of freed slaves from the US in what is today Liberia began in 1822; by 1847, the Americo-Liberians were able to establish a republic. William TUBMAN, president from 1944-71, did much to promote foreign investment and to bridge the economic, social, and political gaps between the descendants of the original settlers and the...
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Project for Peace is a non-profit organization that seeks to raise awareness, educate and engage children and youth in Canada, through a video campaign, about the hardships endured by their counterparts living in countries recovering from...
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In the decade coming out of the bloodiest war in Africa’s history, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was left shattered. The trail of destruction left by the fighting resulted in 70% of the congos schools burned and looted, and most of its teachers were killed.
A whole generation was left uneducated. For any hope of...
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The American war in Iraq came to an unspectacular end Thursday at a simple ceremony held on the edge of Baghdad’s international airport, not far from the highway along which U.S. troops first fought their way into the capital more than eight years ago.
Source: Washington Post
Read MoreThis project was developed by Alexander Marcopoulos, a grade ten student in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Project for Peace was launched into order to raise awareness about children living in war torn countries or recovering from conflict. Our goal was to share ideas about how solve the problems of children living in conflict zones, raise awareness about war torn countries needing help, and share their stories.
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Read MoreThe African Union has announced that it will form a 5,000-strong brigade to hunt down Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), believed to be hiding in the jungles of central Africa The brigade will be led by Uganda and include troops from the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, the countries that have been ravaged by LRA raids.
Source: The Guardian
Read MoreFollowing the resounding success of its YouTube launch, the KONY 2012 video and movement saw a barrage of criticism from the darker corners of the internet. As someone who has worked in propaganda for a long time, I’m concerned that people all over the world are sending money to an organization that is fundamentally different to what they imagine it is. And even as interest wanes across the web, there are still lots of unanswered questions. Like the ones I came up with to ask Invisible Children representatives after Kenny Laubbacher, head of “artist relations” for IC, invited VICE to interview members of IC at the organization’s offices in San Diego immediately following our original Kony Post . Laubbacher claimed that our post was “pretty massively misinformed and quotes a lot of bogus sources.”
Source: Vice Magazine
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