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Peace Practices - Peace Day September 21

The Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) is a UN-designated "Peace Messenger Initiative" with participants in all the world's regions. Its purpose is to unite the strengths of organizations and individuals who are working to make Peace a practical reality. The highlight of the Initiative is International Day of Peace (Peace Day), which is celebrated ...learn more

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Tom Stites is an editor, entrepreneur and writer with a passion for strengthening journalism and democracy. He is the founder and moderator of the Banyan Project, a group of senior journalists and their allies devoted to creating a new model for quality journalism that can thrive in the digital future.

As an editor Tom has supervised reporting that has won an array of major journalism awards including the Pulitzer Prize; as an entrepreneur he has been the founding publisher of two print magazines, a newsletter, and an on-line magazine.

In addition to his Banyan Project role, Tom is a consulting editor for the Center for Public Integrity. As the editor and primary writer for the Center's global reporting project "Collateral Damage: Human Rights & U.S. Military Aid Before & After 9/11," he and three colleagues were recipients of a 2007 Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting.

Positions Tom has held previously include national correspondent, national editor, and associate managing editor for project reporting at The Chicago Tribune; night national editor of The New York Times; managing editor of The Kansas City Times, and editor and publisher of UU World, the national magazine of the Unitarian Universalist religious denomination. In 2009, he served as communications director for Peter Morales's successful campaign to be elected president of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Tom's writings and speeches on strengthening democracy and on journalism have won a respectful following, including his cover essay for a 2003 special issue of UU World, "How Corporate Personhood Threatens Democracy."

Tom grew up in Kansas City and attended Williams College. He has taught in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and conducted seminars at several journalism schools. In 2006 he was a Resident Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, where did research on power and the conscience for a book he's working on.