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Barrio De Paz

Youth worker Nelsa Libertad Curbelo Cora describes the inspiration behind Barrio de Paz (Peace Town), a non-violent youth movement in Guayaquil, Ecuador, that brings together street gangs to provide services to the struggling community. Gang members band together out of a need for unity, structure, and love when their social fabric has been torn apart. Mirroring the society that marginalizes them, gangs use this unity for domination and aggression. Nelsa shows how this instinct toward oneness can be transformed into a power of service, life, and love.

Nelsa Libertad Curbelo

Nelsa Libertad Curbelo Cora is a proponent of non-violence who has fought for indigenous people's rights and worked as a mediator in armed conflicts throughout South America. In 1999, she founded the organization Ser Paz (Being Peace) specifically to work with youth gangs in Ecuador's... bio page »

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larisa
Friday, June 20, 2008
1:22pm

how funny that both maggymac and Julia Ardon quoted the same line of Nelsa's. The world truly is one. I just hope that this wave of idas and progess is really, actually starting to swell.

Martin Castro
Thursday, June 5, 2008
10:21am

Nelsa me ayudó a mirar el mundo de otra manera. Su lectura acerca de los jovenes y el mundo que los adultos le hemos legado tiene la claridad y sencillez de las cosas que siempre han estado allí pero que nunca vemos... Gracias Nelsa por tanto Amor! Gracias por mostrarme que puedo hacer algo y que tengo todo lo que necesito para hacerlo.

maggymac
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
11:32am

This is my favorite one so far! What an incredible woman. I love her quote: "Nothing is more revolutionary than love." We really need more people like Nelsa working with the youth in America and all around the world.

Julia Ardón
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
7:53am

Tanta Claridad. Tanto Amor. Tanta Verdad. Tanto Ejemplo.
Esa sonrisa no la olvidaré facilmente. Tampoco la frase " No hay nada más revolucionario que el Amor"
Gracias, doña Nelsa, a Ud. y a los muchachos y muchachas de su país.

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