The website of The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative now has a Discussion Forum.  The IPCR Discussion Forum can be accessed from any IPCR website page at www.ipcri.net  and also at http://ipcrdiscussionforum.proboards.com/index.cgi . The Discussion Forum is from ProBoards (at www.proboards.com ).  The…

In a previous post titled “Draft ‘IPCR Critical Challenges Assessment 2011’—Sharing Table of Contents, Seeking Input (July 6, 2011, at the Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative website, and other sites), I provided some information about my current project (“IPCR Critical Challenges Assessment 2011”).  While there is still much work left to do to realize the potential of this project, one section is close enough to completion to share (Section 3 “The…

July 25, 2011 is Save Pell Day, an online day of action to tell Washington that America can't afford to balance the federal budget on the backs of college students . If you agree that no student who is eligible for college should be denied access on the basis of financial need, please support the national campaign to save the Pell Grant program.

Pell Grants have been helping students for more than 30 years. In 2012, nearly 10 million students are expected to receive…

Teachers cheating and Incentives

From the New York Times.

Union Chief Faults School Reform From ‘On High’

By ALAN SCHWARZ

Published: July 11, 2011

The Five Sections in This Post:

Introduction

Two Similar “Big Picture” Assessments

Previous IPCR Initiative Assessment Documents—and What is Different Now

Ways to Maximize Citizen Participation and Solution-Oriented Activity

Draft “Table of Contents” for “A Ten Point Assessment of the Most Difficult Challenges of Our Times”

Introduction

This writer [founder and outreach coordinator of The…

Introduction—How Comprehensive Can Peacebuilding Efforts Be?

There is much that can be done to generate goodwill and promote peace that has not yet been done.  Having this conviction—and seeing the potential for much compassion and much solution-oriented activity in many spiritual traditions and many fields of activity relating to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability—has led this writer to explore ways of actualizing such potential. …

The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative is currently carrying out an ongoing effort called “IPCR Outreach 2011”. 

This outreach effort includes:

1)  discussion postings at various platforms 

2)  cover letters and “A Four Page Summary of The IPCR Initiative” sent by post mail to many people and organizations 

3)  sending occasional “groupings of tweets” at Twitter (as a way of linking short tweets with…

About The IPCR Initiative

A central focus of The IPCR Initiative is its advocacy for a combination Community Visioning Initiatives, “Community Teaching and Learning Centers” with ongoing workshops, and “sister community” relationships as a way of generating an exponential increase in our collective capacity to overcome the challenges of our times.

The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative is currently carrying out an…

Beginning in February, 2011, The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative has been sending outreach messages by postmail to many people, in many related fields of activity. 

Believing there is an urgent need to build bridges between diverse communities of people, this writer (founder and outreach coordinator, Stefan Pasti) has been sending out summary information about The IPCR Initiative (“A Four Page Summary of The IPCR Initiative”), and…

Having finished a cycle of writing projects as part of building The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative, and having also created a website for my “Collected Writings”—this writer feels he has sufficient resources to trade with, and is seeking to re-locate to any place where there are people who can make good use of the resources he has to offer.

Recommended resources include:

1)  “A Four Page Summary of The IPCR…

Community Learning Exchange member Juan Muniz from the International Media Exchange shared Local TV coverage of their work to engage Kalamzaoo youth in video journalism.  IME was nominated for a community award for their work in connnecting community.

Howdy All, so it's been forever and a day and I have been sitting on this poem and continually forgetting to post this.  From our gathering in Utah in October, the poem - A Good Story.  Thanks to all of you for your patience! :)

A GOOD STORY

by Lee Francis IV

I.

It is the story of stories

the poem, the song

the wisdom of family…

The following 9 page article is a late addition to The IPCR Journal/Newsletter (Winter 2010-2011 issue) (58 pages)—which is accessible for free at the website of The IPCR Initiative (at www.ipcri.net ).

The goal of this particular section of the Winter 2010-2011 issue of The IPCR Journal/Newsletter is to suggest that it would be a most visible and beneficial expression of women’s capacity for compassion and reconciliation if a coalition of…

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