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05.13.22WPDI Expands its Partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in South Sudan
May 13, 2022 - We are delighted to announce the extension of our long-running partnership...
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05.10.22WPDI Joining Forces with the L’Oréal Fund for Women to Empower Underprivileged Women and Girls in South Africa and Uganda
May 10, 2022 - Last month, as our team in South Africa initiated steps to enroll...
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05.05.22WPDI Founder and CEO Forest Whitaker Receives Excellence Award at the Cameroon Film Festival
May 5, 2022 - Last weekend, WPDI Founder and CEO Forest Whitaker was invited...
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04.26.22Learning Peace Online Now Possible Through WPDI’s New Peace Education Game and Virtual Center for US Schools
April 26, 2022 - The Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) is...
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04.22.22160 Trainees Receive Certificates at our Community Learning Center in Moroto, Uganda
April 22, 2022 - Last January, WPDI kicked off a new series of training programs...
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03.31.22Three New Businesses Emerge from WPDI’s Latest Business Plan Competition in the Acholi Sub-Region
March 31, 2022 - Recently, WPDI held a Business Plan Competition at our Community...
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03.29.22WPDI Delivers Online Trainings to Future Leaders Attending the Asian University for Women in Conflict Resolution Education
March 29, 2022 - Recently, WPDI’s Domestic Harmonizer Program (DHP) trainers...
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03.17.22We Can Still Have a World Where Conflict Can Be Mitigated
A Blog Post by Forest Whitaker on the Conflict in Ukraine "Leaders need to move...
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03.11.22Forest Whitaker receives the International Peace Honors Prize
March 11, 2022 - Last February, our President and Founder, Forest Whitaker, was honored...
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03.08.22WPDI Steps Up its Strategic Drive to Work For and With Women as Changemakers
Ten years ago, Forest Whitaker founded WPDI with the vision that young...
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