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Talking Peace, Acting Peace and Building Peace.

With more than 15 years of experience in interreligious dialogue, this reflection explores the power of listening, understanding and human connection in building peace. Dialogue is more than conversation—it can transform differences into relationships and create communities rooted in compassion and collaboration. This spirit also inspired **Ecopeace Teen Café**, bringing people together across cultures, faiths and identities while recognising our shared responsibility for one another and the planet. In an increasingly divided world, creating spaces for dialogue is essential for peace, justice and healing.

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A Year of Healing, Unlearning, and Coming Home to Myself

2025 became a year of healing, self-discovery and learning to define life beyond achievements. Through writing, reconnecting with relationships, embracing new experiences and practising deeper listening, the year brought a renewed understanding of self-worth, human connection and the strength of women. More than any recognition or leadership milestone, the greatest achievement was deeply personal: choosing myself, learning to love myself and allowing myself to heal.

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Community of Love: What I’ve Learned from Our Kids’ Community

Working with **Our Kids’ Climate**, a parent-led community spanning 55 countries, has shown how strong movements are sustained not only by strategy and advocacy, but by relationships, love and care. From supporting one another’s campaigns to sharing practices around rest, solidarity and resilience, the community demonstrates that meaningful climate action grows stronger when people feel valued and supported. Lasting movements are built not only by what we achieve together, but by how well we hold one another along the way.

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What Gives a Young Leader Confidence?

From a formative conversation in Costa Rica in 2019 to participating in the **Earth Charter Youth Summit in California in 2026**, this journey reflects how trust, mentorship and community can shape a young leader’s confidence. Presenting Ecopeace Teen Cafe and engaging with young leaders from around the world reinforced a powerful lesson: meaningful youth participation happens when young people are trusted not simply to attend, but to lead. The experience renewed a commitment to peacebuilding, climate action and the belief that collective action can achieve far more than we often imagine.

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Impact Story

Small Actions, Big Impact: Reflections on World Environment Day

This World Environment Day, the focus moved beyond awareness to everyday action through the **Personal Plastic Audit Challenge**. Students were encouraged to observe their daily plastic use, reduce single-use plastics, reflect on better habits, and continue those changes throughout the year. The initiative shows how small, consistent choices can turn sustainability from a once-a-year message into a daily practice.

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Catholic Woman from Kerala Champions

Kollam, Kerala, July 18, 2025 — In the coastal town of Kollam, Kerala, a powerful global movement for environmental sustainability and peace took root in 2021, sparked by the vision of a young woman devoted to protecting the planet. Meet Greshma Pious Raju, a 30-year-old Catholic peacebuilder and the founder of the Ecopeace Teen Café. The initiative is a global online platform that empowers teenagers to lead conversations and take meaningful action on ecological sustainability and peacebuilding.

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