Graduate Uses FSM Foundation as Core of Peacebuilding Practice

Graduate Success Stories series, we chose this month to talk with Philip Hellmich, author of God and Conflict: A Search for Peace in a Time of Crisis (Published 2012, Spirit of Peace Press, Petaluma, CA, www.godandconflict.com).  Philip, known better to his Summer...

Returning to Viet Nam: Healing the Past Through Touch

by Michael BroasI am standing at my massage table, laying my hands on a man about my age, who is also a veteran of the same war that I was in, but with a very major difference; He was in the North Vietnamese Army, my former enemy, who I tried to kill and who tried to...

Returning to Viet Nam: Healing the Past Through Touch, Part 2

by Michael BroasAfter visiting Friendship Village near Hanoi, we next traveled south to the city of Hue, which was the site of one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Viet Nam war, lasting a total of 26 days in 1968. Hue is also near the DMZ, or Demilitarized...

FSM Wins $500 In Kickball Tourney

The staff of FSM recently teamed up with current students and graduates to win $500 in a local kickball tournament.  The money was donated directly to the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding, the school’s charity of choice. The Alachua County Emerging Leaders...