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This post is also available in: Spanish By Steve Sheppard, on March 15th, 2013 I attended the Nobel Peace Prize Forum during this past weekend. It was the 25th annual gathering of Nobel laureates and an eclectic mix of others who have activist interests in the pursuit of a more just and peaceable world. The Forum has now grown to an attendance of approximately 6,000 at the Minneapolis site, with perhaps thousands more connected by Internet livestreaming technologies that linked up with more than 20 countries around the world.
The theme of this year’s gathering was ‘The Power of Ideas: People and Peace,” and there is no question that the big ideas represented by –> Read More
This post is also available in: Spanish By Steve Sheppard, on November 14th, 2012 In one sense, it’s entirely appropriate that Winds of Peace would take on the field of education as one of its priorities, since there is so much education to be had from our interactions with the rural populations in Nicaragua. Each and every visit for me has revealed perspectives that I might never have known but for my visits with a wide range of Nicaraguan “teachers.” In some cases, I think these educators know that they are teaching the gringo something new; in other cases, the teaching moment may pass with no recognition of impact or import. In either case, –> Read More
This post is also available in: Spanish By Steve Sheppard, on October 28th, 2012 
I had the exceptionally good fortune to be traveling within Nicaragua a couple of weeks ago, visiting partners and new sites and learning all over again from them what it means to be resilient and of good spirits. Those lessons are hallmarks of my visits over the years, and I find myself infused each time with new energies and resolve as a result. It seems as though every conversation, every dilemma, each visit has the capacity to both drag me down and pick me up on the basis of the particular circumstances encountered. One of those circumstances last week stood –> Read More
This post is also available in: Spanish By Steve Sheppard, on August 3rd, 2012 I heard a news report the other day about a Good Samaritan who had stopped at an accident scene to help one of the victims to safety. The story was an interesting and moving one, the kind of “everyman” story which tends to fill us with hope that, confronted with the same circumstances, maybe we could act heroically, too. Better yet, the story had a happy outcome, as the accident victim survived in part due to the rescuer’s efforts. When he was interviewed after the rescue, the man was asked what had motivated him to intervene and thus endanger himself –> Read More
By Steve Sheppard, on January 28th, 2012 In light of the current status of banks and banking in the U.S. (wretched), I suppose the last institution with which I’d like to be affiliated is a bank. Central banks and those deemed “too big to fail” contributed mightily to the near-collapse of the U.S. economy several years ago, and their persistent breaches of integrity place them firmly at the lowest end of the scale of trustworthiness. It’s a bad place for banks to be, when they represent an institution that really should thrive on their customers’ trust. (Just this week I was prompted to contact one well-known national –> Read More
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