by Main | May 12, 2016 | Extended Family Model, One Family Under God, Peacebuilding, Youth Leadership
“Dia what are you doing?” Vandy asks the young man pointing a gun at him. Dia, who had been kidnapped and trained to become a child solider tries his best not to acknowledge Vandy, his father. “You are a good boy who loves soccer; who loves school. Your...
by Main | Apr 27, 2016 | Africa, One Family Under God, Peacebuilding
“An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the children that whoever got there first wins the whole basket of sweet fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each others’ hands and ran...
by Main | Dec 15, 2015 | One Family Under God, Peacebuilding
The traditional approach to problem-solving has very often been focused on mitigating the symptoms of a larger problem. We might hear the term “band-aid solutions” to connote a remedy that covers over only the visible signs of a problem. In geopolitics today, we can...
by Main | Dec 7, 2015 | Africa, One Family Under God
“Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness.” ~Desmond Tutu Ubuntu is an indigenous African philosophy that transcends tribal and linguistic borders. The concept appears in...
by Main | Jun 10, 2015 | Interfaith, One Family Under God, Universal Principles and Values, Youth Leadership
The rational-choice theory that has been so popular up until now suggests that, given the right incentives and punishments, human beings and thus human societies will make rational choices. And yet, clearly, that has not been the case. War is not rational; violence is...
by Main | Jun 4, 2015 | One Family Under God, Service and Volunteerism
Through service, everyone becomes a catalyst for building connections and collectively generating solutions. The timeless ethic of serving others engages everyone, both foreign and local, in the process of building better and more sustainable families, communities and...
