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Category Archives: Conflict transformation

Art of resistance: how Palestinians are reaching out across the globe creatively

by Ahdaf Soueif | The Guardian | Saturday October 21, 2006 Last Saturday at the Festival of Palestinian Literature in Manchester, Salma Khadra Jayyusi walked slowly to a microphone in … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cities of Joy: Sustainable Practises

Enrique Peñalosa is one of the most inspirational speakers I’ve had the good fortune to encounter. What he has done for Bogotá I wish could be done for other cities … Continue reading

16 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

What the Amish are Teaching America

by Sally Kohn :: CommonDreams.org :: Friday, October 6, 2006 EXCERPT: According to reports by counselors who attended the grief session, the Amish family members grappled with a number of … Continue reading

9 October, 2006 · 1 Comment

Hostile neighbourhood? Start being a good neighbour!

Dear Israeli establishment, Here’s an idea for you. Instead of complaining about what a hostile region it is, turn it around. Commonsense decrees that improving a neighbourhood starts with being … Continue reading

7 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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