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Mosaic of Innovative Solutions: Entrepreneuring Peace

Ashoka's Changemakers Project has published a matrix of innovative on-the-ground conflict management projects called Entrepreneuring Peace. With twenty examples in all, the matrix emerges from the intersection of four barriers to peace -- lack of empathy, a culture of violence, group-based inequities, and corrupt public systems -- with five principles -- humanizing the "other", creating alternative systems, exploring original wounds, creating communities of peace builders, and building nonviolent paths. Posted: 2/4/07; 11:06:14 PM #

Social Learning
	The recent SANGONeT newsletter (to which you should subscribe) recently led me to Learning for Sustainability and their page on Social Learning. It's an accessible introduction to an assortment of papers and international examples about collaborative learning environments. Posted: 2/4/07; 10:55:08 PM #

Three Ways to Involve Foundations in Public Policy
	Fieldstone Alliance has published a book excerpt that sets forth Three Ways to Involve Foundations in Public Policy. There are no great innovations here, but the common sense guidelines (and the tool they present along side them) seem very useful to me. Posted: 2/4/07; 10:38:15 PM #