http://www.monitor.upeace.org The Peace and Conflict Monitor provides a forum for academic discussion and peace journalism on relevant regional and global issues. http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=897 Suman Shukla on the important and oftentimes under-appreciated role of teachers in peace building and prevention of violent conflict worldwide. http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=898 Aingkaran Kugathasan details the limitations of Sri Lanka's Prevention of Domestic Violence Act in the context of the country's patriarchal socio-cultural and legal history. http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=899 UPEACE MA candidate Ragan Dueker analyzes the unsettled conflict in Kosovo by addressing the role of Serbia's upcoming elections in the region’s political and economic future. http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=900 The faltering economies and tighter budgets of Europe and America, the traditional providers of development financing, have left organizations and communities wondering where the continued funding of their development projects will come from. In this special report, veteran fundraiser and development guru Jürgen Carls reviews the remaining instruments and possibilities for north-south financing, and argues that the solution may be in a completely new approach to fundraising -- an approach based on longer term relationships between funders and recipients, characterized by trust, openness, honesty, commitment, and international cooperation. http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=901 Pepperdine University graduate student Dusty Bates Farned has an uncomfortable experience with a homeless man in Los Angeles and reflects on his own fight or flight response.