Featured Projects and Events
Saturday June 4th Meeting with Stephen Sillett
InterChange invites you to the June 4th Meeting Saturday, June 4th 2016, 10:30am - 12:30pm Peace Lounge, 7th Floor South, … [Read More...]
March 5 InterChange Meeting: Celebrating International Women’s Day / Week
InterChange invites you to the March 5th 2016 Meeting: Women and Peacebuilding with Guest Speakers Lyn Adamson and Hannah … [Read More...]
Feb 6 Event: Our Comings & Our Goings – a Sharing by Rosabel Fast
Join us on Saturday February 6, 2016 from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm At the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor St … [Read More...]
Newsletter and Updates
2013-14 Annual Report
INTERCHANGE ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 Highlights of Our Work over the Fiscal Year (Please read below or download the PDF version by … [Read More...]
2012-13 Annual Report
INTERCHANGE ANNUAL REPORT 2012/13 Highlights of Our Work over the Fiscal Year (Please read below or download the PDF version by … [Read More...]
2013 Shared Annual Report
We have a web of connections between us. We’re all working together. For peace. In our communities, in our families, in our … [Read More...]
Our Stories
Commemoration of Professor Anne Goodman – Remembered One Year Later
Submitted by Issa Kirarira, Chairman, InterChange Uganda Today, the 1st of August, marks one year from when Professor Anne Goodman passed on. In Uganda, her death was celebrated in Lutego, Mukono, where trees were planted in her memory on August 3rd, 2013. On November 16th, 2013, two more trees were planted while celebrating an International […]
InterChange Uganda Celebrates International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
Submitted by Issa Kirarira, Chairman, InterChange Uganda 6 April 2014 – This year we celebrate the first-ever International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. We at the United Nations know that sport is a universal language, uniting groups and nations across divides. Sport empowers youth, promotes good health and deepens UN values such as […]
Using Digital Stories to explore community and mental health with the South Etobicoke Youth Assembly
Mental health and community are reinforcing concepts; thus, investing in one leads to an investment in the other. InterChange Toronto partnered with the LAMP Community Health Centre to run a pilot workshop series on digital storytelling with youth aged 14-18 from the South Etobicoke Youth Assembly in order to explore ideas around mental health and […]
Uganda – Tolerance day marked with a call on people to live together harmoniously
November 16, 2013 Reverend Fredrick Muligisa of Kisowera Church of Uganda (COU), has called upon Ugandans to tolerate each other and live together harmoniously if meaningful peace is to be achieved. Rev Muligisa made the call during celebrations to mark this year’s International Day of Tolerance. The celebrations for the international Day of Tolerance were […]
Disconnected Love
Submitted by Pamela Snell The way that I understand peace in my life changes from day to day and from moment to moment. Today I am thinking about how personal violence is perpetrated by moments of disconnection. Specifically, disconnection in our relationships with others. I am currently the age where I go to a lot […]
Vukovar and Transmission of Trauma and Negative Narratives
TRANSMISSION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND NEGATIVE NARRATIVES 12 JUNE 2013 CHARLES DAVID TAUBER, M.D. In this posting, I will highlight an issue that is a substantial one in all of the areas in which InterChange is working and discuss a little of what we in Vukovar are attempting to do about it. First, we need […]
Building Positive Relationships – It’s In Our Nature
Submitted by Carolyn Webb I’ve come to the conclusion that what makes us thrive as humans is the connections we have and foster. Our relationships with others, as well as our relationships with ourselves, are what give meaning to our lives. I’ve been coming to this realization for awhile now, but this idea has become […]
Romero House – creating a culture of welcome in Toronto
Submitted by Anthea Darychuk “In our culture we have a family place where we all go for big events. Romero House is like our family place in Canada” – Naman Thamir, from Iraq “People can’t really feel at peace until they know they are safe and accepted into Canada. Until they know their status. Romero House […]
International Women’s Day, March 8, 2013
Submitted by Malik Rashid To observe International Women’s Day, InterChange invites you to share your story of resilience in the face of violence and oppression against women and how your efforts or the efforts of those around you are breaking the cycle of trauma. Of Losing and regaining love and humanity Story of my efforts to […]
Let There Be Peace
The following poem was shared by Rhona Bhuyan, an InterChange member and a teacher currently working at the Khartoum American School in Sudan. The poem was written by two Grade 10 students and was inspired by one of the stories by John Paul Lederach in his book The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building […]
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