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Colour-coded: Decolonising Hearts, Minds & Spirits
Sep 7, 2017
It was another one of those silly games, those apparently pointless games that lie at the heart of conflict transformation and experiential […]

Love & Fear, Grief & Grace
Sep 7, 2017
Of all the coverage post-Charlottesville, one CBC radio interview stays with me in particular. Megan Williams of The Current interviewed a former […]

Newsletter #2: Burkinis and Liberation
Sep 16, 2016
Violence Disguised as Liberation I was also on a beach that day. But it was not Nice, that beach of stones on […]

Postcard from Uganda #2: Playing for our Lives
Dec 9, 2015
The Big Wind Blows, if you watch it without sound, looks like a silly children’s game – the one-fewer-chair-than-kids kind. There’s a […]

Postcard from Uganda #3: Silly Games?
Dec 9, 2015
Then the Big Wind Blows for those who have ever participated in a demonstration. Those who have ever been arrested. For those […]

Saying YES to Peace
Jun 10, 2015
When I returned from North East India in December, I wrote a blog that I entitled ‘extreme-everything-postcard-from-india.html Extreme Everything’. Exquisite beauty marred […]

Partera in 2015: Turning Enemies into Neighbours and Friends
Feb 19, 2015
As part of its year-end reporting, the Washington Post listed seven situations in the world that had gone, in its view, under-reported. […]

Extreme Everything: Postcard from India
Dec 9, 2014
After two weeks here in Northeast India, I am feeling the exhaustion of the roller coaster ride – or perhaps it’s a […]

Worlds Colliding
Oct 22, 2013
Author’s note: October 2012. While a lot of time is spent in training sessions, it is important to me to do the […]