USD Magazine Fall 2016

in the Middle East HOPE by Diana Kut low ’03 (MA)

Hints of

illustrations by Barbara Ferguson

A trio of School of Peace alumni are

working toward a better tomorrow

In a recent speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations, Pope Francis urged the assem- bled countries to support those “who have no desire to be caught up in hatred and folly, have been forced to witness the destruction of their places of worship, their cultural and religious heritage, their houses and property, and have faced the alternative either of fleeing or of paying for their adhesion to good and to peace by their own lives, or by enslavement.” Alumni from the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies are working for this cause around the world, and several have focused their efforts on the Middle East, where conflict has devastated once-flourish- ing countries, prevented economic development and burdened already poor countries with the costs of providing basic needs such as housing, food and water, health care and education for hundreds of thousands of refugees in addition to their own citizens.

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