{"id":17196,"date":"2022-03-09T16:59:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dharma.org\/?p=17196"},"modified":"2022-03-10T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:50:12","slug":"dr-paula-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dharma.org\/dr-paula-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Paula Green\u2014Peace Builder, Buddhist, and Former IMS Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Paula Green, renowned leader in international and domestic peace-building work and former IMS board member, died on February 21, 2022. She was 84.<\/p>\n<p>Paula was a peace activist, psychotherapist, educator, and a committed practitioner of engaged Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>She founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karunacenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karuna Center for Peacebuilding<\/a> in Amherst, MA in 1994 with a mission to empower people divided by conflict to develop mutual understanding and to create sustainable peace. \u201cI found myself no longer willing to be a passive witness to the suffering caused by armed conflict and the unbridled misuse of power and privilege,\u201d she said about founding the Center which worked in more than 35 conflict-affected countries, including Rwanda, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sudan, Ghana, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Paula also created<a href=\"https:\/\/graduate.sit.edu\/program\/graduate-certificate-conflict-transformation-across-cultures-contact-peacebuilding-workshop\/\"> Conflict Transformation Across Cultures<\/a>\u00a0at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT, a graduate program in peace-building and conflict transformation, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handsacrossthehills.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hands Across the Hills,<\/a> a project connecting people with widely different political beliefs in the US to \u201cmeet face to face with people from a community that voted differently, in an attempt to better understand each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She received many awards in recognition of her peace-keeping work including the Unsung Heroes of Compassion award for 2009 from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Paula Green, renowned leader in international and domestic peace-building work and former IMS board member, died on February 21, 2022. 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