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 […]
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International Women’s Day: Born an Un-Person
Mar 21, 2017
My mother was born a non-person. It was two years before little Barbara Alice Starr, unbeknownst to her, was allowed into that […]
Power and the Feminine
Feb 19, 2016
A few days ago, I heard Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC Radio’s The Current trying valiantly to moderate a conversation – debate […]
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 […]
Remembering Day 2015: A Reprise
Nov 11, 2015
First written in 2013. Today, once again, memories of my father, thanksgiving for the poetry of Wilfred Owen, thoughts of South Sudanese […]
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 […]
Pork Barrels and Poverty, Election-day Violence and a Typhoon on the Way
Nov 10, 2013
The three boys are all wearing the t-shirts of their barangay’s Brigades and they have volunteered, been trained as, ‘watchers’. Elections of […]
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 […]
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