Peace and Justice Update

The Peace and Justice Update is published by interns at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and covers areas of interest to the Institute based on field work or programmatic focus. To subscribe, send an email to updates@sandiego.edu with "Subscribe" in the subject line.

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Source information: Information presented in this update is condensed from wire and newspaper reports from Lexis/Nexis and from electronic sites on the web.  Complete bibliographical information is unavailable from these services, but every attempt has been made to properly cite information and give credit to source materials.  This update is intended for use by IPJ staff and associates for informational purposes only.  As the material in this update is condensed, and does not directly quote the primary source, information from the update should not be quoted. For an alphabetical list of sources used, with links, visit Archives and Sources and click on the most recent issue on file

Any opinions expressed in the Update solely reflect the views of the individual Update author(s) and in no way reflect the official views and/or positions of the IPJ, its staff, or the University of San Diego.

The Spring 2013 interns at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego are:

Jennifer Pampolina (University of San Diego), Meliza Trimidal (University of San Diego),
Ashley Vigil (University of San Diego)