"You have written this book at a time of sharp polarization, characterized by deep divides,” said Tim Kaine the former governor of Virginia at the launch of Rob Corcoran’s book, Trustbuilding: an honest conversation on race, reconciliation, and responsibility on March 15.

Rob Corcoran, author of Trustbuilding, spoke at the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University on March 9. He joined fellow panelists David Campt, a nationally recognized race relations consultant, and Jana Carter of Search for Common Ground to discuss "Conflict in Our Own Backyard: Prospects for Racial Reconciliation."

Paul Wee, Adjunct Professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, in Washington, DC, and Kay Lindahl, founder of the Listening Center in Long Beach, CA, participated in the "Parliament of the World's Religions."

"Hope in the Cities has provided a map for the future," says former Virginia governor Tim Kaine in his foreword to Trustbuilding: an honest conversation on race, reconciliation, and responsibility, by Rob Corcoran, which is published this month by University of Virginia Press.

"Beneath the surface of a failed conference, there has emerged a common vision amongst youth, which inspires me to continue doing this work," writes Marcia Lee, a 2009 Caux Scholar from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who attended the conference on climate change.

Noorullah Delawari, an Afghani American who is founder and CEO of the Afghan Investment Support Agency, as well as Minister Adviser to President Karzai, says his long connection with Initiatives of Change helped him to take responsibility for his country—including the enormous task of restoring stability to the currency. He told his story to an Initiatives of Change meeting in McLean, Virginia, in October.

Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge now carries the title “Editor in Exile”. In September of 2008, she was the second winner of the Global Shining Light Award in Norway, presented by the International Conference of Investigative Journalists for exposing how a government minister “used his power and connections to the President of the country to run roughshod over the media and the justice system.” Less than four months later her husband of two months, the well known editor of the Leader newspaper, Sri Lanka, was brutally gunned down as he drove to work. Sonali was forced to flee the country, along with other members of her family—hence her unusual title. 

Steamboat Magazine reports on the Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA presenting the world premier of Leif Hovelsen's Story & His Search for Wilhelm Heilmann, a film by local filmmakers Cynthia Rutledge & Smokey Vandergrift on Friday, 4 December.

At 7:30 am, November 12, 2009, on a very rainy Thursday morning, the 13th annual Metropolitan Richmond Day breakfast began. The weather did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the diverse crowd.

This summer the Caux Interns Program came together under a common vision, “The Spirit of Caux in our Hearts, Heads and Hands”.