Learning from the past how to protect our future
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USA: Stacy Gallin, Founder and Director at MIMEH, presents in her interview with OLBIOS her work and insights on the most pressing issue: the need for a new moral ethos.
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CULTURE & SOCIETY
Afghanistan By ChoiceAlexandria's Bombach documentary on an unremitting dilemma: the choice tAlexandria's Bombach documentary on an unremitting dilemma: the choice to leave or stay in your own country.o leave or stay in your own country.
SOCIAL ISSUES
Alexandria's Bombach documentary on an unremitting dilemma: the choice to leave or stay in your own country.
Young people against disaster
DO TANK
Watch the wonderful documentary directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, and the story of three exceptional children preparing for a music competition.
Covid-19: The ruthless agent who brought audiences center-stage.
ARTS
Berlin: What are the ingredients for a great performance? In his article for OLBIOS, award-winning composer and author, Konstantinos Athanasakos outlines some time-honoured ingredients alongside some less obvious but equally important ones.
Re-Learning from disaster
CULTURE & SOCIETY
San Francisco: The take-away lessons from the pandemic are not new But we might need to relearn them until it becomes blatantly obvious that how we live and think needs to change, argues professor Dan Brook in an interview with OLBIOS.
Defining Oneself and Changing the Narrative
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Australia: In his article for OLBIOS, Mohammed Semra, UN Humanitarian Affairs Peace Ambassador, writes on the challenge of defining oneself as opposed to being defined by others, the importance of role models and opportunity.
Connecting Policy Elites with Civil Society: the Formula for Change in the 2020s?
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Andrew Kolb, Director of Communications at German Marshall Fund of the United States, writes on the audiences that causes should reach to shape the future
Sports as an ideal tool of social integration
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Marc Larripa Fernandez writes on how A,E Ramassà, a small sports club from Barcelona, became a UN Global Goals ambassador
Listening matters: poor people are not mere beneficiaries
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Clinical psychologist Adrien Cascarino writes on how empowerment requires a high dose of self-confidence, which is undermined when individuals are regarded as mere beneficiariesAdrien Cascarino C. is sitting in her house, anemic, tired-looking, and emaciated. Her 3 malnourished children, a 3-year-old son and two-year-old twin daughters, are sleeping, with rashes...
Do we still want to maximise consumption?
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Jon Alexander, Founder and Director at New Citizenship Project, writes on sustainable consumption, the idea of consumption as a panacea and the Citizen Confidence Index
Communitarian Empowerment in Practice
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Dr Henry Tam, Director of Question the Powerful, describes an exemplary way to enable communities to cultivate mutual respect and cooperate
The path from social causes to innovation
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Nabeel Siddiqui, CEO at ModulusTech, writes on the realization that housing needs to be re-invented; A thought that led him to a low-cost, modular house that you could easily transport anywhere and set up within a day
From street-smart to street-educated
CULTURE & SOCIETY
For some children, streets are their learning environment; Arnoud Raskin presents Mobile School and the power of its pioneering outreach strategy based on empowerment, as opposed to merely assistance.
How can humanitarian aid become more effective?
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Reinier Van Hoffen writes from the Netherlands on the constructive interplay between tacit knowledge and science in relation to aid effectiveness.
Do only crises bring us closer?
CULTURE & SOCIETY
In an article contributed to OLBIOS, Angela Tolliday asks whether we can connect only during crises and claims that this is intimately connected to knowing one’s neighbours.
How to think more by being less authentic
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Tony Koutsoumbos, says that the best way to see someone else’s point of view might be taking a break from our own authenticity.
From footprints to handprints
CULTURAL ISSUES
We all know of the importance of a company’s footprint in relation to the environment, A handprint is equally important, writes Frantz Dhers
The Orphan Myth: The Global Movement to End Institutionalisation
CULTURE & SOCIETY
In his article for OLBIOS, Martin Punaks writes on the powerful ‘orphan myth’ and the challenges of fighting institutionalization and orphan trafficking, The solution lies in moving children to family and family-like structures, argues Punaks.
Can a bank be based on Christian values?
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Tommy PIemonte presents at OLBIOS the exceptional work of BKC
We are faced with a climate emergency. Can art help?
ARTS
The artist Kito Mbiango contributed to OLBIOS this interview by Jill Van den Brule, In it, Mbiango points to the crucial role of art in communicating risks, but also motivating people to act.
Bottom-Up Development in Armenia
CULTURE & SOCIETY
In her article to OLBIOS, Megan Garland writes about her experience with the Dilijan Community Center, a project by the people and for the people
Change and the world changes with you
CULTURE & SOCIETY
In her article for OLBIOS, Caroline Heider, an international development expert, writes on what really matters and how growth can be too much of a good thing. Aligning Incentives to Count What Matters
Remember: keep the human in human services.
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Australia: Horatio O’Shea writes on how reflection can help shape wellbeing in the workplace.
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