Two members of DEEP Circle in Sabah – Kahansanan Circle, held a workshop entitled “Developing a Great Mindset for Effective Communication” at SHANGRILA Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah in August last month. The event aims to foster interactive engagement with the local communities especially the indigenous community and to strengthen and support especially Seri Mengasih[…]
This article has been republished for International Women’s Day 2023. It was first published on 8 March 2023. Originally published under Creative Commons by 360info.org Women’s groups in Thailand’s deep south provinces have never been included in peace talks, despite being affected by the conflict, directly and indirectly. Decades of armed conflict and insurgency still[…]
This opinion piece on the Ukraine crisis, co-authored by Professor Paul Komesaroff, a member of DEEP’s Advisory Circle, was published in Pearls and Irritations (see johnmenadue.com for information about this public policy journal). Not only did diplomacy fail spectacularly but the responses of governments around the world was, perversely, to turn away from the search[…]
As a reflective practitioner, I am continually looking back at my performances in the theatre, in the boardroom, the classroom, the community, the secure unit, and the open-air space. I always want to get something, some benefit from delivering the work that I do. Usually, the benefit is of me learning something. If I go[…]
I have listened, and observedIn a circle of peace, where people from another part of the worldPromised one another non-judgement and respectAlthough they’ve never met(Why can’t we even do it with the neighbours of our own?)My thorn: I am trapped between academic and practical worlds(And you are anchoring me down, thank you)My rose: I am[…]
How can we inspire? How can we build? What can we do so that we feel fulfilled? Fulfilling our hearts free from pain or disaster, Ensuring each day is a ‘happy ever after’. But how can we reach there? And where do we start? Perhaps the starting point is our hearts… Can we learn to[…]
Written by: Laurence Klein The ‘LIBERA, united against littered nature’ project, created by the environmental Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) SEO/BirdLife, in alliance with the non-profit organization Ecoembes, came to life in 2017 to curb the consequences of abandoned litter in natural spaces (littered nature, basuraleza in Spanish) in Spain. Ecoembes promotes a circular economy through the[…]
*An earlier version of this was originally published in French on Priscyll’s personal blog. May 1st 2021 was a terrible and devastating Labor Day in Colombia. The day was marked with violence on the streets of many cities in the country as government forces cracked down harshly and brutally against peaceful protesters. The protests culminated[…]