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How Gondolas and Hip Hop Transformed the Most Dangerous City in the World
Medellín went from being ground zero of Colombia’s drug war to UN poster child for urban equality—and the people made it happen, by designing the city they wanted. by Sven Eberlein posted Nov 06, 2014 This article appears in Cities Are Now, the Winter 2015 issue of YES! Magazine. Posters throughout Comuna 13 neighborhood. The…
Reyhaneh Jabbari, the Iranian woman who was hanged on October 2,2014 writes a letter to her family
Dear Sholeh, today I learned that it is now my turn to face Qisas (the Iranian regime’s law of retribution). I am hurt as to why you did not let me know yourself that I have reached the last page in the book of my life. Don’t you think that I should know? You know…
European project on children´s rights in Moss
On Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 October 2014, Barnas Fredsverden is receiving colleagues from the Network for Children’s Rights Greece and the ICE-CCFR Centre for Children and Family Research (Iceland) for a workshop in Moss aiming at searching for best practices and new scopes for the International Convention on the Rights of the Child when…
Time Orientation: Abundant Time vs. Limited Time
Time orientation defines our sense of time and it is important in deciding if a culture is a limited time culture or an abundant time culture. The Greek reference is chronos (chronological time) or kairos (opportunity). Edward T. Hall uses the terms ‘monchronic’ and ‘polychromic’ time systems when discussing these concepts.26 Time Horizon describes a…
the architecture of violence
On a journey across the settlements and roads of the West Bank and along the Separation Wall, Israeli architect Eyal Weizman demonstrates how architecture is central to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. “Architecture and the built environment is a kind of a slow violence. The occupation is an environment that was conceived to strangulate Palestinian…
International Peace Day 2014
What a good idea, this day! To reflect, take stock, to enjoy peace, to deplore non-peace. And the first reflection is this: peace is the normal condition of humanity, just like health. There is so much plain, simple, decent behavior around, so much mutual aid, a helping hand, companionship, friendship, good neighborhood when bad luck…
celebration of the international peace day on sunday 21st september
The preparation are going their way. It has been some weeks now and all the ambassadors are working hard to plan the celebrations which we will have on sunday 21st september in Moss. They have already secured an article which came out today in byavisa, the local free newspaper which is distributed directly in your…
New Team : BFV ambassadors for 2014-2015
Today we had our first meeting with the BFV ambassadors. They are engaged youth that for some of them have come to the seminar this year for the first time, (Hedda, Aleksander, and Sol Marie) and some have been there for the second year (Ellen) and even 2 of them (Vilde and Jørgen) for the…
a series of fabulous misunderstandings in the land of an unpredictable communication
the other day when Johan Galtung arrived to the seminar I had invited him to speak to, it was the first time I was meeting him. He greeted me so warmly. Hugs and “finally” ….But before I even said hello, he handed me over a little piece of paper containing something, holding it in this…
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