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Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, accepts cans of coins donated by UC Berkeley students for the rebuilding of his homeland from Kyleigh Kühn, a Berkeley peace and conflict studies major. Kühn is co-founder of the Pennies for Peace campaign, which has raised more than $150,000 to replace minefields with agricultural lands. Jawad was on campus Tuesday to deliver a talk on "Winning the Peace" in war-torn Afghanistan.

Carol Mimura, of the campus's Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances, helps explain the role of IP in transferring technology to benefit society.