The October Peace Journalist magazine has arrived!The new Peace Journalist magazine is out, and features Prof. Raj Gandhi discussing peace journalism as well as dispatches from Ghana, South Korea, Cameroon, and elsewhere.You can access the magazine as...

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Punjab Agriculture Crisis is Worsening

Lovepreet Singh was a young farmer with a lot of dreams. Knowing well that he inherited an outstanding loan of Rs 8 lakh he still wanted to give farming a try. But unable to pay back the loan, he finally ended his life. He was only 22-year-old. The suicide...

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Restraint And Seclusion Not To Be Used As School Punishment

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995In California public schools, "Hands off!" should be the motto for school staff.  There are so many minefields involving interaction between staff and students that this is the...

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Kansas City peacebuilders exemplify Peace Day's spiritNote: This article also appears in the Kansas City Star at:https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article235150442.htmlWhen you open the paper or turn on the TV and see...

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Why increasing land degradation should be a cause for worry.

Pic courtesy: Mongabay-IndiaResearchers at the University of Sheffield in 2014 found that soils in urban areas in UK were healthier on an average than the intensively-farmed crop lands. Gardens, local parks and allotments generally were significantly...

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KC Star gets it right on murder epidemic coverageGiven the daily violence in our world, and the political polarization inherent in the gun debate, it might seem that journalists, and particularly peace journalists, have no choice but to impotently stand...

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Rural Economic Distress led to Slowdown

Terming the economic slowdown as unprecedented and perhaps the worst in the past 70 years, the Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar had called for extraordinary steps to fuel the economy. But strangely I did not find the Niti Aayog raise any alarm bells...

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