How to Talk When You Don't Agree
After the 2016 presidential election, Dr. Paula Green, founder of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, a US-based NGO focused on...
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Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker
Feb 13, 201911 min read
A Conflict-Resolution Expert on Whether Political and Racial Dialogue Have Value in the Trump Era
Paula Green has worked in peace-building and conflict resolution for three decades, often in places torn apart by war and ethnic...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Feb 12, 20193 min read
Hands Across the Hills story spreads far beyond Franklin County
LEVERETT – After a year of drawing attention solely from The Greenfield Recorder, this town’s Hands Across the Hills effort and its...
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Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times
Feb 5, 20195 min read
They Have Worked on Conflicts Overseas. Now These Americans See ‘Red Flags’ at Home.
LEVERETT, Mass. — Paula Green has spent much of her life working on conflicts abroad. In places like Bosnia, Rwanda and Myanmar, Dr....
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The Gratefulness Team, https://gratefulness.org
Jan 25, 20198 min read
Grateful Changemakers: Hands Across the Hills
Here in our feature “Grateful Changemakers,” we celebrate programs and projects that serve as beacons of gratefulness. These efforts...
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Tom Wolff
Dec 27, 20187 min read
Bridge Building in Divided America: One Small Step in Tikkun Olam, Repairing the World
The following talk was given by HATH member Tom Wolff at the Jewish Community of Amherst on December 15, 2018. It follows the form of...
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Amanda Menas, peacenews.com
Nov 25, 20182 min read
Peacebuilder awarded for bringing divided US citizens together
With so much disunity across the United States, it can be difficult to find common ground. But one organization is taking steps to bring...
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sharonrosedunn
Nov 19, 20181 min read
Paula Green's Talk Accepting First Domestic Award for Peacebuilding
In October 2018 the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a network of over 100 organizations, gave its first Melanie Greenberg Award for Domestic...
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sharonrosedunn
Nov 17, 20181 min read
I Could Cry a River--new film capturing our stay in Kentucky in Spring 2018
I Could Cry a River, a thirteen minute film by David Rabinovitz, captures the spirit of Leverett's visit to Letcher County KY in April...
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The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, Amherst
Nov 9, 20187 min read
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Interviews Founder Paula Green
The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding interviewed Paula Green about Hands Across the Hills—a unique initiative formed across deep political...
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REV. SARAH PIRTLE Interfaith Minister
Nov 7, 20183 min read
Faith Matters: Together in the Tree of Life
We care about each other, every one of us. Hundreds held candles this week and walked through Northampton to Congregation B’nai Israel to...
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James Sullivan, Boston Globe Correspondent
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Boston Globe: A Unique Exchange Program between Red and Blue America
LEVERETT — The potluck meals offered a bounty of careful dieting. A group of Leverett neighbors had invited some mostly conservative...
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Bas den Hond, for Trouw, the Netherlands
Oct 29, 20189 min read
The same hills, two Americas
America is deeply divided on the way to the Congressional elections of 6 November. Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump do not...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Oct 18, 20183 min read
Group wins national peace-building award
LEVERETT — Hands Across the Hills, the grassroots project that aims to build bridges across a political and cultural divide that seems to...
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sharonrosedunn
Oct 9, 20181 min read
Domestic Peacebuilding Award to Hands Across the Hills
The Alliance for Peacebuilding will honor Hands Across the Hills and its leader Paula Green with its first domestic peacebuilding award,...
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Hands Across the Hills
Sep 27, 20181 min read
Come Party with The Monday Project!
Come Party with The Monday Project in support of Hands Across The Hills Saturday October 6th 7:30 - 10:30 PM Shutesbury Athletic Club 282...
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sharonrosedunn
Sep 25, 20182 min read
European Public TV filmed HATH for Documentary to Air Before Our Mid-terms
In August two filmmakers commissioned by Arte TV, French-German public TV, filmed three days each in Leverett, MA and in Whitesburg, KY...
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Luis Fieldman, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Sep 21, 20184 min read
Kentucky, Leverett meetings teach lessons on bridging cultural, political divides
HADLEY — “I thought you people never suffered,” said a woman from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to a group of visitors from Leverett, according...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Aug 17, 20185 min read
Hands Across the Hills Going Global
LEVERETT — A European television crew is focusing on this town’s efforts to bridge the cultural divide as it produces a documentary about...
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Richie Davis, for the Greenfield Recorder
Jul 13, 20183 min read
OPINION: TWO RURAL COMMUNITIES CROSS THE POLITICAL DIVIDE
When Massachusetts and Kentucky residents from politically polar-opposite regions met, it was “love at first sight.” Richie Davis'...
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