Peace and Conflict

  • Grantee Spotlight: Women Cross DMZ

    I'm incredibly inspired by the increasing calls for peace around the world by lawmakers, activists, and everyday people whose lives have been impacted by this long, unresolved Korean War. In July, there was a historic vote in US Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act,...

    October 1, 2019 - By Ploughshares Fund
  • Grantee Spotlight: Aware Girls

    The voices that perpetuate conflict are too often those that should be working to end it—elders, parents, older siblings. Two girls in Pakistan’s Peshawar province decided young people working with their peers could break that pattern. Though they were only 15 and 16, Saba and Gulalai Ismail co-...

    December 11, 2017 - By Ploughshares Fund