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United World Peace Portal was created by a United World College Costa Rica high school student in 2025 as a platform to gather information, and offer ideas about individual, group, community and global conflict resolution . The mission is to forge pathways for reducing polarization and fostering COMMUNITY

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Monthly Featured Poet

I am the holy being of my mother's prayer and my father's song
_ Norman Patrick Brown
Dineh poet and speaker

1. Set conflict resolution ground rules
Recognize whose lands these are on which we stand.
Ask the deer , turtle and the crane.
Make sure the spirits of these lands are
respected and treated with goodwill.
The land is a being who remembers
everything.
You will have to answer to your children, and theirs, and theirs.
The red shimmer of remembering will compel you up the night to walk the
perimeter of truth for understanding. ...
As I brushed my hair over the hotel sink to get ready I heard:
By listening we will understand who we are in this holy realm of words.
Do not parade pleased with yourself.
You must speak in the language of justice. "...

Excerpt from

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

by Joy Harjo - www.joyharjo.com

Used with permission from W.W. Norton Publisher

-Harjo's poem acts as a handbook; offering keys for conflict resolution like connection to land, and remembering our ancestral legacies and stories. She expresses that true resolution to conflict only comes when we have listened deeply to what has happened in the past and communed with the land-

This Month's Featured Interview...

Meet Amandine Roche

interviewed by Thomas Hubl on his Point of Relation Podcast

"The way you work on healing yourself, raising your vibration, that's your contribution to peace" Amandine Roche

Listen here-

https://pointofrelationpodcast.com/podcast/amandine-roche-inner-peace-for-collective-healing/

OR

excerpts on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiD4qCktYCY

Amandine Roche, is a human rights and women's empowerment expert with more than 20 years of experience with the United Nations and European Union, in conflict contexts such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Congo, and Libya.

She founded the 'Inner Peace Corp' a program within the UN that supports the UN Aid workers.

Amandine's extensive work in conflict zones worldwide was driven by a deep, personal quest for healing from childhood trauma. But the work itself took its toll on her mental and physical health, leading her on a journey of healing that uncovered an essential core truth that she now works to spread: we must have inner peace if we want to work for outer peace -

She can be found on the web at

www.amandineroche.com

Amandine is the author of

-Carnet D' Aventure- chronicling her life with the nomads in Kurdistan, Kirghizstan , Afghanistan, and Tibet

and

-Le Vol Des Colombes- her diary working as the head of the UN civic education program in the Kabul region to encourage women to vote.

She also is featured in the book

-The Portal by Tom Cronin (2019)

Monthly Meditation Resource

Davidji is an internationally recognized meditation expert, stress management coach, public speaker, and author of - The 'Secrets of Meditation '

Check out these short meditations on his website!

-7 minutes to peace

-Connecting to the present moment

https://davidji.com/guided-meditations/

Student Peace Projects-
In The News....

2025 Projects for Peace recipients announced!

Davis Projects for Peace 2025 recipient, Allan Feldman, for his project ' Empowering Egyptian Women Through Community Automobile Education and Ride sharing'
follow this link for the story

https://www.brandeis.edu/compact/funding-opportunities/davis/index.html

Follow this link to read about more recipients and their projects!
https://www.middlebury.edu/projects-for-peace/reading-room

Projects for Peace offers $10,000 grants to students from 101 colleges and universities who are part of the Davis program. Each year these grants are awarded for a summer peace projects. The organization is based at the Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement. To date more than 2,000 projects have been implemented in over 150 countries.