The Voyage of Dialogue and Discovery rolled into Washington, DC, June 7, on the heels of a number of public events in support of Trustbuilding, a recent book release from IofC National Director, Rob Corcoran. The themes of the book and the tour dovetailed well as Rajmohan and Usha Gandhi spoke throughout the week about building trust through honest conversation, personal conviction and trustworthiness.

Students from Duke University Divinity School visited Richmond this month on a “pilgrimage of pain and hope.”

The Richmond Slave Trail Commission has unveiled a vision for a $100 million to $150 million heritage site in Shockoe Bottom (the historical site of Richmond’s slave market).

‘It can’t be fair that we Europeans are 5% of the world’s population and pollute the world with 24% of the carbon emission.’

For more than sixty years the world has found hope in Caux. Lives have been changed, intractable conflicts resolved, and new visions born. This year individuals and teams from the US participated in summer conferences under the theme, Trust and Integrity for a Sustainable World.

One of my most poignant memories of Senator Edward Kennedy was not his unforgettable 1972 Halloween night campaign speech in Jersey City attacking President Nixon. Nor was it the tip he gave me for a good story when I was The Cincinnati Enquirer's Washington correspondent.

Leading practitioners of conflict resolution, dialogue and community building will come to Richmond, VA to explore the trust deficit that divides the U.S. at the local and national levels and globally as well. The forum is sponsored by Initiatives of Change at the University of Richmond, June 4-7 and will draw participants from many walks of life to share best practices of building bridges and living with integrity.