Tag Archives : A Cultural Conception of Peace


Jody Landers (United States of America)

  Originally published on The Adventure Project Photo by The Adventure Project Co-Founder and Board Member of The Adventure Project On their ten-year wedding anniversary, Jody and her husband adopted their two youngest children from Sierra Leone. Their experiences opened their eyes, broke their hearts and confirmed the desire to see a world where the […]

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F7-Friends of Seven (Singapore)

    F7-Friends of Seven is a group of three women friends—Ai Leng, Poey Yee Lau and Ms. Ong, who do volunteer work in caring for stray dogs in Singapore.  F7 refers to: Huahua, Jordan, Candy, Leila, Honey, Hector and Qmo, these were the first seven dogs they started caring for in 2010.  Ai Leng […]


Bernice Dapaah (Ghana)

  Written by Bernice Dapaah As an alumni of Harvard University Executive Education Program and aYoung Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Bernice Dapaah is a young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur. She holds a Diploma in Human Resource Management and Marketing from the Institute of Commercial Management UK and Bachelors in Business Administration from the Christian […]

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Fatima Bhutto (Pakistan)

  Fatima Bhutto borders on empathy Written by Mark Reynolds Originally published on Bookanista Fatima Bhutto’s mesmerising and impassioned debut novel The Shadow of the Crescent Moon focuses on the impossible but urgent choices facing five young people living in the tribal areas on the Pakistan border with Afghanistan, where communities are under constant threat […]


Gong Ji-young (Republic of Korea)

Gong Ji-young: Dictators’ daughters Written by Mark Reynolds Originally published on Bookanista Gong Ji-young is at the forefront of the new wave of women writers who rose to the top of the literary tree in Korea in the 1980s and ’90s. We meet a few months after the UK publication of Our Happy Time, her […]


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Analyn Salvador Amores (Philippines)

  Analyn Salvador Amores (1974, Baguio City, Benguet) Analyn Salvador Amores also known as Ikin is a social anthropologist and an associate professor at the College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Baguio.  She earned her Bachelor of Arts (1995) and Master of Arts (2002) from the University of the Philippines Diliman; and her […]


Norma Pedroso Limoso (Philippines)

  Norma Pedroso Limoso (b.1942, Iloilo, Philippines)   Everybody calls her Mama Norma, because that is what she is—a mother.  She is a mother to nine biological children and a foster mother to countless others.  She was born in a family with nine siblings, from a barangay leader father and a school teacher mother. Mama […]

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Mable Hillery (United States of America)

  Mable Hillery Written by Peter Stone Originally published on Cultural Equity A member of The Georgia Sea Island Singers Mable Hillery was less known than leader, Big John Davis or Bessie Jones, who also had her own performing career. Looking her up, one finds her name spelled in various ways. The New York Times […]


Bessie Jones (United States of America)

  Bessie Jones Written by  Peter Stone and Ellen Harold Originally published by Cultural Equity   Bessie Jones in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1960. Photo by Cultural Equity   Mary Elizabeth “Bessie” Jones (Feb 8, 1902– July 17, 1984) was born in Smithville, Georgia. When she was still an infant her mother moved to her uncle’s farm in the […]

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Fariba Ishrar (Canada)

Student Honors 1,017 Indigenous Women And Girls Murdered In Canada To Bring Awareness To National Crisis Written by Women You Should Know Originally published on Women You Should Know Photo by Women You Should Know After moving from Toronto to Winnipeg last September, 16-year-old Fariba found herself at a new school with a whole new […]