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Global Peace Exchange is actively involved in the campus community, organizing activities that foster the spread of peace and intercultural dialogue on a variety of international issues. Two years running, GPE organized Peace Week, a series of events meant to inspire analysis, dialogue, and action about the nature of peace. Other past events have included speakers, a vigil for the Rwandan genocide, and documentary viewings. We also work to fundraise in support of our projects.
Furthermore, at the Building Bridges conference in February of 2008, President Paul Kagame came to Florida State University. In his speech he endorsed the work of Global Peace Exchange while inaugurating a relationship between Florida State University and the Republic of Rwanda.
Meetings: Tuesdays at 7:30pm in the Dunlap Student Success Center
Past Summer Project Locations: Ghana, Rwanda, Guatemala, Thailand
Facebook Group: Global Peace Exchange
Meetings: Thursday’s at 3pm in Y 239 (meetings subject to change)
Next Event: Tie Dye for Thailand
Past Summer Project Locations: Ghana, Thailand
Facebook Group: Global Peace Exchange Gainesville
For more info contact Alex Horner at alexhorner@globalpeaceexchange.org or Danielle Serrano- Prusinski atgpesfc@gmail.com
At University of Florida
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of everything month in Anderson 101 at 6:00pm.
Facebook Group: Global Peace Exchange Gator Chapter
For more info contact Kristin Klein at kristinklein@globalpeaceexchange.org
Isabel Callejas, the director of GPE’s Bukomero program in Rwanda, was recently awarded the Boren Scholarship. Isabel, born in Miami and raised in Nicaragua, joined GPE’s team in 2007. She plans to use the scholarship to study Kiswahili in Tanzania. This prestigious scholarship provides unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add [...]
On assignment from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Douglass Casson Coutts is a Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, College of Human Sciences at Auburn University. He is developing and teaching Auburn’s first undergraduate course on “World Hunger: Causes, Consequences and Responses,” assisting in designing a Hunger Studies Minor area [...]
The Global Peace Exchange has decided to suspend its Guatemala project due to the devastation caused by the recent Pacaya volcano eruption and passing of tropical storm Agatha through the country. The country is trying to recuperate from these events and it is not a good time for GPE volunteers to engage in a project [...]
Tuesday April 6: 7:30 pm Peace discussion meeting in Dunlap Success
Center, Rwanda Genocide vigil to follow on Landis Green around 8:30
Wednesday April 7: Tee Off For Toilets 10-2 on Union Green: Fundraiser for the new toilet sanitation project in Rwanda with games, an obstacle course, and bake sale.
Thursday April 8: Amnesty concert featuring Dave Tieff, Union Green
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There are now two separate components to the GPE project in Guatemala, each with its own goals and volunteers. The first of these consists of an exchange program for two FSU graduate students from the College of Education, who will spend a total of six months at the Proesur campus of Universidad Del Valle de [...]