Category: conflict resolution
Do Some Children Matter More Than Others?
Roméo Dallaire – Canadian Senator and ex-Commander of the United Nations Forces in Rwanda during the genocide in…
Learning to Live Together
Reciprocity – the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit – is widely recognised as an important feature…
Peace on Earth – War Children
Emmanuel Jal was born in Southern Sudan c. 1980. By the time he was seven, his father had…
The Story of the Long Spoons
There is a Jewish folk tale that tells the story of a man who wanted to understand Heaven…
American Psycho?
In his book, The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl examines the incidence and diagnosis of schizophrenia in the United…
Two Races of Men
We worry about our differences when we should really concentrate on the ways we are similar. We…
If You Saw A Child About to Fall in a Well…
Mencius a fourth-century BCE Chinese thinker and disciple of Confucius, taught that human beings have within them everything…
Love is a Dynamo – Part I
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can…
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is defined as: An act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded…