Over the last twenty years, across the world, I've come across four distinct ways of thinking about building community in difficult times. Naturally enough,...
Read MoreShift #1 Health is a political issue. If we are to see global health improvement, then we need to shift the conversation from ‘medical problems’...
Read MoreUltimately, Doctor Guillotin wanted to radically reform the penal code by having the death penalty abolished. Yet, today he is remembered for helping to...
Read MoreThe following is a guest blog written by Al Etmanski (aletmanski.com). Al is a community organizer, social entrepreneur and author. John McKnight is his...
Read More[caption id="attachment_3527" align="alignright" width="219"] Image from the film 'Get Low' (2009)[/caption] In this morning's national newspaper The Irish Times the front page headline reads: "Economic activity...
Read MoreBonding and Bridging atoms Currently, populist theories of social and economic change in the Global North, suggest that crises’ in the domains of democracy, health,...
Read More‘Growing an Association of Associations’ You received gifts from me; they were accepted. But you don’t understand how to think about the dead. The smell of winter...
Read More'We used to dream big, now we have a district commissioner who does that for us.' Last week I finished with the question: What happens...
Read MoreIn this series of four blogs I’d like to think about active citizenship and democracy. In this regard, I will not be writing about: How...
Read More[caption id="attachment_1199" align="alignright" width="338"] Image taken from http://on.fb.me/1EZwH1c[/caption] On Sunday night last, May 31, 2015 at 10:45 Judith Snow passed away, she was a friend,...
Read MoreABCD as an alternative to the dominant Needs-Based Approach in Africa This week, on Monday, May 25 to varying degrees the world celebrated Africa Day....
Read More[caption id="attachment_1116" align="alignleft" width="204"] E.F. Schumacher. Image taken from http://bit.ly/1FvuqQp[/caption] Imagine living in a world where the default position was ‘that’s too small to fail!’...
Read More