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A Cameroonian woman is the recipient of the 2011 Vital Voices Global Leadership Award for Leadership in Public Life.

South African prisoners make music to increase their chance at a successful life after incarceration.

A student-produced collection of youth singing, talking, and discussing the state of Somalia.

Bringing Down the Sun an original song written and preformed by the rock band Paranoid Earthling, highlights the impact of conflict on youth in Sri Lanka. Paranoid Earthling is made up by Mirshad, Dhanushka, Asela and Shanka, four young musicians from Kandy, with 7 years of experience and a loyal fan base among urban Sri Lankan youth. The song will hopefully inspire young people to take an active stand on peaceful conflict resolution, so that their generation will finally know what it means to live in a country where guns are silent.

Practitioner and professor Daryn R. Cambridge delivers remarks on the field of peace studies.

Afghan youth stand in solidarity with victims of Mexico's drug war.

2011 is PBI's 30th year. Unfortunately, the world is still a dangerous to be a human rights defender, and the need for international accompaniment to protect such courageous and important people is as strong as ever.

A feature documentary film and animated comic book about normal people who became Human Rights Heroes & Heroines.

This award-winning documentary captures the story of three men, born into violence, who now risk everything to find a path to peace through nonviolent resistance.

Students at the Peace It Together dialogue and film-making camp document the experiences of Palestinians and Israelis. In the Presence of Absence is one film produced during the 2011 session.