by Main | Aug 16, 2013 | 2013, Europe, Global Peace Foundation, One Family Under God, Peacebuilding
Unsteady peace has held in Ireland for fifteen years, but there are still painful reminders of the violence and discrimination that ripped across the Emerald Isle propagated by political, religious and national differences. Thousands of lives were taken in the...
by Main | Aug 15, 2013 | 2013, Europe, Global Peace Foundation
On July 18th, 2013, Global Peace Foundation-Ireland was officially launched at the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre in Dublin, followed by ten days of events and meetings, giving GPF’s newest chapter a running start The launch concluded with an...
by Main | Apr 25, 2013 | 2013, Europe, Human Rights and Freedoms
People who were old enough will recall powerful images of November 9, 1989, the collapse of the Berlin Wall. East and West Germans scaling the wall to embrace on ramparts that used to be laced with barbed wire. The concrete wall being torn down by any and all means:...
by Main | Apr 9, 2013 | 2013, Europe, Other
Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and currently only female Prime Minister and longest serving PM in the 20th century, passed away on April 8, 2013. Just as many love her as dislike her for her hard lined stance against communism and her fight for free market...
