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On the first leg of a multi-city journey across the United States and Canada, Goldin Institute senior advisor Frank Mugisha came to Chicago for a public event hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on April 27, 2017.  “The Global LGBTQ Rights Movement” featured Mugisha in an hour-long conversation with Project& director Jane M.… Continue reading Update on the Global LGBTQ Rights Movement

We are pleased to share this opportunity to follow along with Diane and Travis as they visit partners in Haiti in the photo journal below. The photos are from a visit in April 2017 to see our partners at KOFAVIV and IJDH as well as learning more about the work of Fr. Joseph Philippe and… Continue reading Visiting Partners in Haiti: a photographic update

Throughout a ten-week period in the first months of this year, the Goldin Institute has been engaged with students in Professor Lisa Dush’s “Writing Digital Content” course at DePaul University, in a service-learning partnership. A senior advisor to the organization for the GATHER platform, Professor Dush invited the institute to engage with a team of… Continue reading DePaul University Partners for Strategic Storytelling

[quote]Being in a Colombian jail working with women and girls who are serving time after being child soldiers is an interesting place from which to reflect on the last day of Women’s History Month.  The unique challenges and insights of women and girls who were child soldiers are often lost in the conversations about demobilizaiton… Continue reading Reflections on Women’s History Month from a Colombian Jail

Ten years ago, advisory board member Akif Irfan first became engaged with the Goldin Institute while studying economics and international studies at Northwestern University. He first heard about the organization having an internship opportunity through Northwestern and was immediately intrigued by the historic connection between the Goldin Institute and the Parliament of the World’s Religions.… Continue reading Board Spotlight: Akif Irfan

On behalf of my team here at YOLRED, I am proud to announce that we have opened our first official office in Gulu, Northern Uganda. This is the latest exciting step in our journey and the achievement of a dream after the successful launch of the Youth Leaders for Restoration and Development (YOLRED) last fall.… Continue reading YOLRED: Now Open for Business

East African communities have been struggling to respond to the rise in the recruitment of children into armed conflict by a range of violent extremist groups. In Kenya, the September 2013 attack on the Westgate mall by Al-Shabaab left over 67 dead and 175 injured echoed the terror of the bombing of the U.S. Embassy… Continue reading Youth Leaders from East Africa Tackle Violent Extremist Recruitment

This week we mark the anniversary of one of the Institute’s defining events: the 2003 Building Social Cohesion in the Midst of Diversity and Migration conference held in Manresa, Spain.   At that Event, community leaders from over 20 cities gathered to explore best practices from their practical experiences building social cohesion. The Conference came… Continue reading This Week in GI History: Manresa, Spain

Over 1,500 El Cauca Native Indians march on Bogotá’s Bolivar Square I would like to thank those of you in the Goldin Institute network who have expressed well-wishes and concerns over Colombia’s recent ‘No’ vote on the referendum for the Peace Agreement. It has been a whirlwind of emotions for myself, my family and my… Continue reading Colombia Update: Photos from March for Peace

  [quote]Peace-building is a contextual paradigm. Whatever we learn and experience enriches our knowledge …. although it gets said frequently and sometimes casually, attending the Kerala Peace conference reinforced to me that in our every day lives, our actions can promote the words: MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH.”[/quote]   In celebration of the 2016 International… Continue reading Philippines Update: International Peace Day