SOCIAL ISSUES
Alexandria's Bombach documentary on an unremitting dilemma: the choice to leave or stay in your own country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Marc Larripa Fernandez writes on how A,E Ramassà, a small sports club from Barcelona, became a UN Global Goals ambassador
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...
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
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Dr Henry Tam, Director of Question the Powerful, describes an exemplary way to enable communities to cultivate mutual respect and cooperate
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
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.
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.
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.
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
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Reinier Van Hoffen writes from the Netherlands on the constructive interplay between tacit knowledge and science in relation to aid effectiveness.
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.
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
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Tommy PIemonte presents at OLBIOS the exceptional work of BKC
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.
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
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Australia: Horatio O’Shea writes on how reflection can help shape wellbeing in the workplace.
CULTURE & SOCIETY
Oliver Carrington explains why a thriving mental health charity sector could make a real difference in New Zealand.
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