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Exploring Perceptions of Love and Forgiveness Among the International and Local Aid Communities in Afghanistan
A 24-page report documenting perspectives of love and forgiveness among the development, media, and aid community within Afghanistan and in its recent history.This research was inspired by the decades-long commitment of journalist and Fetzer advisor Edward Girardet and journalist William...
Breadfruit: A Haitian Recipe for Self-Reliance
A free-growing tree that has provided food to tropical islanders for centuries is now being used to create flour and baked goods that can bring hope in the form of income and jobs to struggling areas of Haiti.The Fetzer Institute is partnering with the University of St. Thomas in a “field to fork...
A Biological Path to Love?
A hormone tied to everything from stimulating lactation and pro-social behavior to healing wounds is at the heart of a compelling study that looks at early life experiences, body chemistry and people’s later capacity to love.Researchers Aleeca Bell and Jessica Connelly, in collaboration with...
Universal Design an Expression of Love
Love and forgiveness, in many ways, are about inclusivity, including how we engineer and design products, buildings, and communities both physical and virtual. The concept of universal design is based on maximum inclusivity--designing and creating products for the greatest breadth of users and...
Insight-Out: Getting a GRIP on Rage
A prison sentence often results in years of punishment for seconds of out-of-control rage. Jacques Verduin has made it his life’s work to teach coping skills to prisoners, equipping them to better recognize and avoid those explosive moments in the future.Verduin’s Insight-Out program has become a...
An Open House to Understanding
Bashir and his cousins approached the house. Everything depended on the reception, Bashir told himself. You can't know what the outcome will be, especially after what had happened to Yasser. `It depends,' he said, `who is on the other side of the door. --Sandy Tolen in The Lemon TreeThe scene...
YogaHOPE extends healing practice to those who need it most
After yoga served as her personal lifeline through severe depression, Sue Jones has devoted her career to extending that lifeline to women who might not otherwise have access to it.Jones’ yogaHOPE is a nonprofit organization that brings yoga to those who wouldn't otherwise have access, and offers...
Minds Meet in the Spirit of Resiliency
The worst natural disaster in a nation's history is an epic test of the resiliency of its residents. When the nation is Burma, with chronic poverty and political instability, and the disaster is a cyclone that killed at least 138,000 people, the challenge is even stiffer.Bringing positive care and...
Hazards, Compassion Found Along Migrant Trail
Filmmaker Marco Williams explores immigration and the harrowing migrant trail along the United States-Mexico border in his latest film, The Undocumented and the videogame that accompanies it, The Migrant Trail. Williams is an Emmy, Peabody, and DuPont award-winning director with...
Innocence Raises Challenge of Forgiveness
I don’t mind admitting that I spent a number of years plotting the early demise of several people. Quite a few people actually. The sheriff, the DA, the usual suspects. My lawyer told me something. I had heard it before, and I don’t know who the first guy to say it was. But he said, “To have...