Roots of Peace http://www.rootsofpeace.org/ en Copyright 2012 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:31:55 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The "Middle-East Spring" Planting Peace in the Middle East

The Holy Lands are not “Holy” when there are an estimated 1.5 million landmines in the ground.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Daniel Yuval and Heidi Kühn

Roots of Peace offers support to Israel/West Bank humanitarian demining program. PM supports Mines to Vines™—replacing minefields with bountiful vineyards.

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Learn about the Roots of Peace initiative to Demine-Replant-Rebuild™ Sacred Sites in Israel and the West Bank.

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Doubling/tripling the yield in a “Harvest of Hope” for Afghan farmers.

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“Cancer is a landmine and landmines are a cancer to the earth…”

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Turning MINES TO VINES™ by replacing the scourge of landmines with bountiful vineyards worldwide, the new Partners will pair the showcasing of excellent films in Napa Valley with the excellence of soil/soul restored in war-torn lands.

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Roots of Peace opens USAID-CHAMP Trade Office in Delhi, India providing export markets for Afghan farmers.

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Dhyan Or, Country Director of Roots of Peace in Israel, shows why it's important to demine land in the West Bank and Israel in this online presentation he just created.

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Tucker Kühn, Country Director in Vietnam, and Ryan Loughlin, videographer and volunteer, give us an inside view on their work on this Skype video interview. From making friends with Vietnamese staff, to seeing the progress of farmers, you'll see photos of our agricultural program in action.

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Roots of Peace Independance Day tribute to success of Afghan farmers—1,000 potato storage facilities built in Bamyan, Afghanistan.

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In a town called Husan, just west of Bethlehem and southwest of Jerusalem, there’s an unfenced and unmarked minefield.

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Mines to Vines™ on Sacred Sites

Heidi Kuhn

Roots of Peace invited as speaker at the 50th Anniversary of Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher). The Interfaith outreach represented “common grounds.”

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Cultivating Cocoa: Training the Trainers in Vietnam

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Over 50 Million Pennies Raised by Children Worldwide to Remove Landmines and Build/Rebuild Schools and Soccer Fields in Afghanistan.

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Roots of Peace
Mines to Vines™ model applauded by General Campbell and Afghans on ABC7 News.

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RoP Report

Transforming the Seeds of Destruction into Seeds of Hope

Spring 2011
Issue 5
© Copyright 2011 Roots of Peace

 

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