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Encounters with the world and people creating positive change. Eyes: Descriptions of the social-political as I see them / Mind: Ideas for understanding what we see and what we can do / Mouth: Ways to create change, happening right now.

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Tree Cities of the East

*Trying out something new with some (very honest) personal reflections, a short story and poems on the trees in three…

Egypt, Lebanon, poetry, privatisation, trees, turkey

BREXIT

In the North Sea I will abandon ship stuck on an island with a newly restricted citizenship

brexit, Europe, Identity, migration, Netherlands, poetry, UK

Magic women who know their stuff (and made me think)

As it’s international women’s day I wanted to pay tribute to a few of the women who I refer back…

Activism, Arendt, campaigning, development, facilitation, feminism, Gloria Steinem, Hahrie Han, meaningful youth engagement, mobilisation, organising

Meaningful Youth Engagement made simple: just hit the bullseye

We don’t want young people to get ‘reached’, we want them to meaningfully participate in and lead development. With an…

development, meaningful youth engagement, participation, positive change, youth

Knitted together: Crafting a culture of welcome for refugee women

The Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre visitors’ room is a room that fulfils many purposes. It is normally where inmates of…

#SetHerFree, craftivism, Detention, Refugee, Shoreditch Sisters, WI, Women, Yarl's Wood

Cancelling Israel’s Refugee Anti-infiltration Law

At ten am Taj receives a phonecall. It is Adam informing him that their two friends Mutasim and Salah went…

Human Rights, Israel, Refugee, Sudanese, Tel Aviv

Everything Fits into Population Growth

11 billion people is what population growth will grow to be in 100 years time, and then it will stop.…

AIDS, Consumer choice, developing world, Malaria, NTD, Population Growth, Post-2015, Sustainability

Move over Politicians, Religion is back

Historians attempting to explain something as indescribable as why certain artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Andy Warhol, Beethoven and…

Europe, Politics, Pope, refugees, unemployment, Zeitgeist

The Middle East Peace Process

An entire summer long the world has watched Syria and Egypt. With anarchy and conflict breaking out in both countries,…

Conflict, International Community, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Resolution, Syria, West Bank

Intervention in Syria: Everyone is now involved

Obama, Cameron and Hollande have reached a point of no return after each uttering across world media that something must…

Bosnia, Chemical Weapons, Conflict, International Community, Intervention, Israel, Politics, Resolution, Syria, UK, US

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