Welcome to the fourth electronic newsletter of Action Reconciliation Service For Peace!

We have asked some of our current volunteers, who will soon return to Germany, to write about their experiences, adventures, and challenges during the last 10 month. The result is a variety of different stories on their work, their life in the U.S., the people and clients the volunteers met and served during their year as an ARSP volunteer Read more

Welcome to the third electronic newsletter of Action Reconciliation Service For Peace!

This year ARSP has chosen to set one of its special focuses on diversity and inclusion of people with special needs. Since 1958 ARSP volunteers have been involved in 39 projects in 13 countries, working and living with children, adolescents and adults with disabilities. Read more

Welcome to our second electronic Newsletter of Action Reconciliation Service For Peace with a special edition on the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall!

Dear readers: On November 9th, 1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower first sighted land at Cape Cod, surely a moment of hope and anxiety. In the past two centuries though, November 9th is a far more important and ambivalent date in German history. In 1848 it symbolizes disappointed hope, with the failure of the Revolutionary Movements seeking German unity. In 1918, when the Social Democrats declare the "Weimar Republic", it is the day authoritarian Monarchy was replaced by a frail democracy, a democracy tragically doomed to fail. Read more