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What Can We Do Today to Make the World a Better Place?

On Tuesday at the United Nations Alliance on Civilizations (UNAOC) Summer School being held at EF, I asked about 10 participants – as well as two EF officials and a professor:

“What can we do TODAY to help make the world a better place?”

It amazed me as the answers kept coming one by one how similar each response was, each with their own twist. I will be posting them on Patch day by day starting today, but certainly the resounding answer of empathy and outreach is what brought these folks here in the first place.

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Their badges proclaim their far-flung, and often dangerous, homelands – Baghdad, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and on and on. They spoke of war, and of hope. Then there’s the sole participant representing the U.S. at the summit, a very well spoken L.A.-based journalist interested in telling such global stories to bring people together rather than pull them apart. 

In this video, Mette Nielsen of Denmark.

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