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Limited access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, or WASH, can cause conflict in certain parts of the world and WASH facilities can become casualties in disputes. But WASH also has a role to play in peacekeeping, according to experts Kelly Ann Naylor, associate director of WASH at UNICEF, and Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East, who join Amruta and Rebecca in this episode.

This Podcast aims to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economics, peace, and conflict resolution. 

We offer various discussion forums, peacebuilding, civic education, health awareness. All who desire to be a part of this work are welcome, regardless of religious preference or background.

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Judge George McKinnis and his wife have lived in Bronxville, NY, for over 40 years. They have two grown sons. He served two tours of duty as an Infantry officer and is now retired from the US Army Reserves. He has performed various services for his community, from being legal counsel to the Zoning Board of Appeals to serve as Village Counsel on a pro bono basis for three consecutive Mayoral terms to becoming and serving for twenty-four years as the Chief Justice for the Bronxville Justice Court with criminal, civil, landlord-tenant and traffic violation jurisdiction. He was President of the Bronxville Beautification Council for nine years. This Council is responsible for all of the plantings in the Bronxville commercial district.  

He is a member of the Bronxville Rotary Club, which has been very active in international projects and has been President of this Club three times. He is a Director of his Bronxville Rotary Club, was District Counsel for his Rotary District 7230 for a number of years, and was elected District Governor of Rotary District 7230 to take office in 2021. In addition, he is Secretary for the Rotary Global History Fellowship, an organization within Rotary dedicated to collecting and preserving the history of Rotary International. In 2019, he received the Community Service Award, which was jointly awarded by the Bronxville Rotary Club and the Bronxville Reformed Church, and served as Marshal of Bronxville’s Memorial Day Parade. Judge McKinnis is a member of the University Club in New York City and the Bronxville Field Club.

This Podcast aims to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economics, peace, and conflict resolution. 

We offer various discussion forums, peace-building, civic education, health awareness. All who desire to be a part of this work are welcome, regardless of religious preference or background.

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about the mental health of a generation of children. But the pandemic may represent the tip of a mental health iceberg – an iceberg we have ignored for far too long. The State of the World’s Children 2021 examines child, adolescent, and caregiver mental health. It focuses on risks and protective factors at critical moments in the life course and delves into the social determinants that shape mental health and well-being.

It calls for commitment, communication, and action as part of a comprehensive approach to promote good mental health for every child, protect vulnerable children and care for children facing the greatest challenges.

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This Podcast aims to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economics, peace, and conflict resolution. 

We offer various discussion forums, peace-building, civic education, health awareness. Whoever desires to be a part of this work is welcome, regardless of religious preference or background.

You can visit us @ www.bcgfederation.org.

Climate Services for Resilient Development, By ANGELA SORIANO-QUEVEDO

Angela is a climate change consultant at the World Bank, where she advises task team leaders in the East Asia and Pacific Region on climate change. In addition, she is authoring two country studies on hydrometeorological services for climate-resilient

development in Mozambique and Jamaica. 

She has also been an expert reviewer for the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, which assesses climate change's impacts, adaptation, and vulnerabilities. Previously, she worked on environmental security issues in Latin America.

Angela received her Master's Degree in Climate and Society from Columbia University.

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This Podcast aims to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economics, peace, and conflict resolution. 

We offer various discussion forums, peace-building, civic education, health awareness. All who desire to be a part of this work are welcome, regardless of religious preference or background.

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Tatiana Androsov was born in a mining town in Belgium in the 1950s to parents who had fled the Soviet Union during World War II and who subsequently emigrated to America. She climbed out of Passaic, New Jersey, the daughter of immigrant factory workers, to the hallowed grounds of Mount Holyoke College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A child locked in all summer without anything but a typewriter, she blossomed. Understanding the true meaning of being thankful for a half-filled glass, she wound up the president of the Thanks-Giving Foundation. Tatiana has lived life at both ends of the spectrum.

Throughout this journey, her main preoccupation has been the welfare of her fellow human beings and the planet we all share. Going as far back as the “Letters to the World” that she wrote when she was twelve to the novels she created while a student, later as UN interpreter, UNDP and FAO staff member and C consultant in Rome and at NYHQs, and even during challenging missions abroad Tatiana kept writing. Now ‘retired’, she has published some of her work, including

1) Before they Cut the Ivy on an elite women’s college just before the Ivy League opened its doors to women; 2) Mangoes and Blood on an unusual international hostage situation; 3) Choices on an American woman working for the United Nations in Africa; and 4) A Question of Seduction Vol 1 Eros Vol 2 Agape on an international, intercultural, interfaith relationship set against inequalities in position, past traumas and changing world situation

Having witnessed countless warnings about the future going unheeded and having seen what can be done when people come together, Tatiana looks for the opportunities available to us. For her, many of these opportunities are to be found within the United Nations System. Though an imperfect system with an unusual mix of people, a motley crew, one which is not well understood, Tatiana is convinced that it deserves much greater support than it has had in its first seventy-five years.

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This Podcast aims to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economics, peace and conflict resolution. 

We offer various discussion forums, peace-building, civic education, health awareness. All who desire to be a part of this work are welcome, regardless of religious preference or background.

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MICHAEL COLLINS is the executive director, AMERICAS- for INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS & PEACE.

He develops working partnerships with Americas-based governments, civil society organizations, foundations, universities, businesses, and think tanks and seeks new opportunities to build IEP’s presence and impact throughout the Americas, with particular focus on expanding the use of IEP’s Positive Peace Framework as a training tool and an evidence-based metric for peace-centered development. 

Before joining IEP, Michael oversaw educational, job creation, and economic development programs in emerging nations recovering from natural disasters, frequently working with communities affected by poverty and gang violence. Before pursuing a career in the non-profit sector, Michael studied electro-mechanical engineering and worked in the construction industry.

 The Institute for Economics and Peace aims to create a paradigm shift in how the world thinks about peace. We do this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analyzing country-level risk and fragility, and understanding Positive Peace.

Our research is used extensively by governments, academic institutions, think tanks, non‑governmental organizations, and intergovernmental institutions such as the OECD, The Commonwealth Secretariat, the World Bank, and the United Nations. The Institute headquartered is in Sydney with offices in 6 countries, and our research achieves over 20 billion media impressions across 150 countries each year.

Founded by IT entrepreneur and philanthropist Steve Killelea (see full bio) in 2007, the Institute for Economics and Peace has profoundly impacted traditional thinking on security, defense, terrorism, and development over the last 13 years. 

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This Podcast aims to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economics, peace and conflict resolution. 

We offer various discussion forums, peace-building, civic education, health awareness. All who desire to be a part of this work are welcome, regardless of religious preference or background.

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What do funders want to see in your fundraiser proposal? Hear Cassandra Zawilski, Program Manager for Full Circle Fund, answer this question.

Next step: Take our Introduction to Proposal Writing course to learn the do’s and don’ts of writing and submitting a project proposal to a foundation. Learn more: https://bit.ly/IntroPW

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Presented by Cherlie Birker, the Program manager at California Botanic Garden. Brought to you by BC Global podcast its purpose is to serve as a platform to promote culture, education, economic, as well as peace and conflict resolution.