InterChange is a growing, united, and diverse group of community-based peacebuilders around the world who share knowledge, collaborate on educational and research projects, and support one another with the aim of nurturing and developing dynamic, durable and positive peace.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT (Please read below or download the PDF version by clicking here.) A concept I use extensively in my teaching and peacebuilding work is that of peace as a “process-structure”. I learned about this through the work of peacebuilding theorist and practitioner, John-Paul Lederach, who drew on ideas from quantum physics to… [Continue Reading]
Written by Denis Cox Emuria InterChange for Peace Uganda marked this year’s Eid, the Muslim festival celebrating the end of Ramadan, with a soccer match. The match was held at St. Anne playgrounds in Lutengo, Nama Sub-County in Mukono District. The match was part of InterChange Uganda’s “Play Soccer, Make Peace” programme, the mission of which… [Continue Reading]
A section of sudanese students studying in Uganda have called upon all stakeholders to be tolerant if we are to achieve total peace in communities. Speaking on behalf of sudanese students studying in Uganda, James Zoal Pekhoa, who is a student of Internations relations and Diplomacy at Cavendish University Uganda, said that there is need… [Continue Reading]
The Interchange Uganda Local Chapter, like other peace organizations, celebrated the 16th/Nov/2011 International Day of Tolerance in Lutengo, Nama Mukono District. During the celebrations many activities took place. These included: 1. Debate on tolerance 2. Athletics by pupils of St Anne’s P/S Lutengo 3. General cleaning as part of community service around the office and… [Continue Reading]
Welcome to the newest edition of InterChange’s newsletter! Our theme this time is: Everyone Can Be a Peacebuilder. The articles in this edition emphasize that everyone has unique capacities; that problems can be opportunities; that we can help people see their work as peacebuilding and help them join the cause of peace; and that peacebuilding… [Continue Reading]
InterChange Uganda has been hailed for its role in incorporating peace into its programmes of activities. Speaking during a function to bid farewell to a Canadian student, Shannon Davis, the Chairman of Lutengo Local Council, Kasasira Moses Matovu, thanked the InterChange Uganda chapter members for including peace in their list of programmes because there is… [Continue Reading]
(Please read below or download the PDF version by clicking here.) The past year has been an expansive and exciting one for InterChange. Many areas of the world where we have InterChange members faced major political changes, both positive and negative, thus creating challenges and opportunities for the work of community-based peacebuilding. In this context,… [Continue Reading]
InterChange 4 Peace, a non governmental organization was launched on November 16th, 2010 in South Western Uganda at a function in Kabale town that was attended by hundreds of people that included civil servants, farmers, businessman and student. Muslim District Khadi south Western Uganda, Sheikh Ahmed Bujura, blessed and commissioned the, Interchange 4 Peace Chapter,… [Continue Reading]
25 participants from various parts of Kenya, from Uganda, and from Canada, joined together in Nairobi, Kenya in October 2010 for a Facilitators’ Workshop titled ” After the Referendum: Toward Sustainable Peace in Kenya”. Making use of the heightened public awareness and engagement in Kenya in the period between the adoption of the new constitution in… [Continue Reading]
Looking back over the year, it is exciting to see how InterChange has developed. We have established local centres in several parts of the world; relationships between our members have deepened; and we have seen the continuing evolution of a different kind of organization based on our shared common values, principles and sense of community…. [Continue Reading]
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