Peace Research. Deliberative Dialogues. Learning Networks. Impacting Communities.
Joined October 2011
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21 Mar 2024
'learn to embrace that feeling of learning, because the acquisition of knowledge and the reduction in ignorance is among the most fulfilling things in life...As frequently and fervently as you can, banish ignorance and embrace knowledge. Learning is life.'
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27 Jan 2024
Ghana to initiate visa-free travel for Africans in 2024 africa.businessinsider.com/l…
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6 Jan 2024
"Time to head out into new territory
What should you concentrate on next?"
"Consider the questions they ask for which you have no answers."
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2 Jan 2024
There we go again. Exhausting!
Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president
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Ruby Quantson Davis retweeted
13 Dec 2023
Next Monday, join the Global Day of Action calling for a #CeasefireNOW in Gaza:
🖋️sign: ow.ly/B4ia50Qinoc
📢 share the call: ow.ly/lPom50Qinoa
👕 wear your values - we've launched a solidarity collection, sold at-cost, to boost the campaign: ow.ly/loX550Qinob
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9 Dec 2023
An appreciation of different ways of thinking, processing and creating will #ShiftThePower
Well done team Bogota!
7 Dec 2023
An amazing three days at the #ShiftThePower summit is crowned today. The beauty of unity and diversity exemplified through thoughts, arts and culture.
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Ruby Quantson Davis retweeted
7 Nov 2023
🤝What is the relationship between decolonising international cooperation and #ShiftingThePower ?
Join one of our weaving conversations on the 13th November ahead of the @ShiftThePower Summit this December!
Session 1: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Session 2: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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23 Oct 2023
'Sitting with the Discomfort of Decolonisation'.
I recall starting this presentation with a Xhosa/Zulu freedom song, in the centre of Cambridge, United Kingdom! It was a heavy topic, and I needed inspiration from my predecessors and ancestors. Thanks for publishing.
Read on:
11 Aug 2023
Holiness 8.2 is out. Congratulations to @RubyQuantson on her article 'Sitting with the Discomfort of Decolonisation'
doi.org/10.2478/holiness-202…
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15 Oct 2023
"Perhaps it is time for funding bodies to rethink their application processes."
ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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10 Oct 2023
People-centred research and evaluation: Relational practices that shift power, recognises and protects civilians.
Great reflective questions @Peaceforce
10 Oct 2023
Participatory research & evaluation — two, interrelated relational practices.
🧐what does it mean to conduct unarmed civilian protection nonviolently?
@DrNerveV @rogermacginty @felicityegray #EllenFurnari @UCPResearch
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24 Aug 2023
"Suddenly we received the news... ‘Sorry we are stopping this program— it was as sudden as that,”
The funding cuts mean help is withdrawn from 104 health facilities in Uganda and Madagascar and the loss of 648 community health workers in Sudan"
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22 Aug 2023
"One of the biggest changes is the decolonization of aid and empowerment of local leadership — a key plank of the new policy, particularly as it pertains to Australia’s Indo-Pacific neighbors, many of which are being courted by China" @peacedirect
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13 Aug 2023
Please help our talented brother if you can. Thank you so much.
gofundme.com/f/charles-willi…
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10 Aug 2023
"...traditional approaches to M&E – with a focus on linear logic, attribution, and causality – have never really been fit-for-purpose in peacemaking..."
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27 Jul 2023
‘Two fundamental changes in our understanding of impact have led us to again evolve, and create a new Learning and Accountability Framework.'
1. Who defines what should be measured?
2. Addressing root causes by working on systems change.
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27 Jul 2023
"Meanwhile, our countries, the ones whose autonomy these discussions are allegedly about, continue to literally fall to pieces".
Yup! Through poverty, bad governance, land issues, harsh trade and foreign policies....all of that create aid dependency.
devex.com/news/opinion-confe…
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27 Jul 2023
We mean business! Peaceful and just business!
24 Jul 2023
📸Here is our International Programmes and Research team having a blast on the day!
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23 Jul 2023
This!🧐
23 Jul 2023
working on a paper today: "Decolonising the Hidden British PhD Curriculum"
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14 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023
💭This week, Peace Direct staff are taking time out to reflect on our work, practices and goals. Today, we're at @JBCLondon reviewing our organisational goals and the road ahead! 💫
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7 Jul 2023
"Long term shifts – keeping things on the agenda when the spotlight is elsewhere – are even harder and a key test of leadership."
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