The Frame
Your biweekly newsletter framing of conflict, peace, and justice through an unRivalrous Perspective.
We curate the most urgent and incisive stories, news, and insights, and pack them into an easy-to-digest format. In The Frame, you'll hear directly from thought leaders, journalists, our team, and most importantly from our growing global network of peacebuilders.
We curate the most urgent and incisive stories, news, and insights, and pack them into an easy-to-digest format. In The Frame, you'll hear directly from thought leaders, journalists, our team, and most importantly from our growing global network of peacebuilders.
When you subscribe, you will also receive our free resource, Peace is Possible: Overcoming Roadblocks to Positive Peace.
You can also look forward to exclusive invitations to upcoming events and gatherings and Occasional announcements and updates about ongoing developments with our programs and projects.
Navigating news, partisanship, and politics can be confusing, frustrating, and polarizing–but it doesn’t always have to be. In this guide, learn how to slow down, break through the noise, and unrival your approach to consuming media with four simple practices.
Our free downloadable resource, “Peace is Possible,” summarizes years of research into the state of peacebuilding. It makes the case that community leaders have an outsized effect on peacebuilding efforts. They greatly need your support. We offer examples of how you can apply their insights to transforming conflicts in your own life.
In this interview, unRival’s Research Director Lyle Enright talks with Andy Peterson about the often unjust landscape facing filmmakers who want to tell stories about peace and justice. Andy passionately creates and advocates for new ways of sustaining documentary filmmakers, so they can continue drawing hearts and minds towards a deeper vision of belonging.
Through playing the storytelling game “The Quiet Year” with peacebuilders at the Artisans of Peace retreat, Lyle Enright discovered the importance of creativity, strategy, and play in peacebuilding.
Suzanne Ross delves into the profound connection between people and their natural surroundings. Through a transformative experience with the Artisans of Peace, she collaborates on a unique piece of art and poetry, learning to appreciate the symbiotic relationship between a community and its volcano, and challenging her initial perceptions.
Lyle Enright reflects on his experience at the 2023 COV&R Conference in Paris, commemorating René Girard's 100th anniversary of birth. When theory meets action, we can see meaningful change in the world.
In early 2023, unRival Network partnered with Justice Film Festival to host the first-ever JustPeace FilmLab in New York City, a nonrivalrous learning space to bring together storytellers who long to create a better world for all people.
Jason Ferenczi recounts an experience where showing up imperfectly, yet authentically, nurtured a safe, nonrivalrous space for growth.
As asylum seekers and migrants from Central America continue crossing through Mexico to enter the United States, unRival sits down to interview Producer Julie Mirlicourtois and Pastor John Garland on their new documentary film, ACROSS, the story of what happens when we set aside our politics and witness the humanity and faith of asylum seekers firsthand.
In May of 2023, we hosted the first in-person gathering of the Artisans of Peace cohort in North Carolina. Jason Ferenczi, unRival’s Program Director, reflects on the shared experiences and discoveries we made as we worked and collaborated with these leaders in peacebuilding face-to-face.
