Tribute to Desmond Tutu
Creating Friendships for Peace (CFP) mourns the loss and celebrates the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu CFP was blessed and privileged to witness and benefit from the wisdom, moral power and …
Creating Friendships for Peace (CFP) mourns the loss and celebrates the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu CFP was blessed and privileged to witness and benefit from the wisdom, moral power and …
CFP is pleased to have been accepted into membership of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit, nonpartisan network of over 150+ organizations working in 181 countries to end conflict, reduce …
Volunteer Experts for 2021 Pilot Peacebuilding Seminar for US TeensLast spring, CFP piloted a peacebuilding seminar to US teens. Expert volunteers provided 9 sessions on topics important to peacebuilding: Free speech and …
Rotary Club of Rockville, MD Joins List of CFP Rotary Club SupportersIncoming President Hande Apaydin presents CFP Chairman Linda Ziglar with a $5,000 check to underwrite a pair of CFP teens in Maryland. Cecilia and Edco …
Alexis Eskenazi, U.S. Teen Liaison Alexis lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a junior at Castilleja School. Alexis and her family hosted an Israeli-Palestinian pair of teens …
One of the unexpected successes of the US Teen Pilot Program was the participants’ interest in continuing to learn and hone the skills of managing difficult conversations and minimizing conflict. …
Following up on CFP’s 2020 alumni survey, CFP investigated two strategic initiatives in 2021. The first initiative is to consider broadening the role US teens play in hosting CFP pairs of …
CFP host families with teenagers have the added dimension of friendships among the CFP teen pairs and the American teens. CFP will conduct a pilot program to enhance the role …
Led by Meltsia Economou and Selinay Hurses, the Cypriot alumni are reorganizing themselves with a new and larger leadership group comprised of alumni from each graduating class and representing both …
This summer, a committee of 11 CFP alumni from Cypriot, Israeli and Palestinian communities and 3 American teens created CFP’s very first alumni survey, studied its results and offered specific …