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United States:
Students Promoting Racial Equity |
| Students of color in the U.S. are expelled and even arrested at school at much higher rates than their white peers, a fact that has devastating consequences for their future. In 2015, the Coalition launched From Brown v. Board to Ferguson, a project designed to address this entrenched discrimination by creating programs that foster dialogue on race, education equity, and incarceration. Listen to student participants speak about the program and its impact. |
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Uganda:
Body-Mapping, a Portal to the Past |
| This month marks the third anniversary of the start of the civil war in South Sudan, a conflict that has wrought havoc on ordinary civilians – dividing communities and neighbors and separating families. In November, the Coalition, through its Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation, led a workshop for a dozen South Sudanese victims in body-mapping, a unique art technique that allows individuals to share their stories of trauma through a life-sized drawing of their body. Click below to learn about the workshop and its contribution to healing and reconciliation. |
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Guatemala:
"The Present Needs Memory" |
| The three-decades long internal armed conflict in Guatemala caused the death of at least 200,000 people between 1960-1996. Many who lived through the violence find it difficult to openly discuss. To ensure that younger generations are made aware of this history and its impact, Coalition member Casa de la Memoria in Guatemala City presents this past through intergenerational programming. Here, Andrea Fabiola Pelican Méndez, a local high school student who leads tours of the museum, writes about what memory means to her. |
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