Reading for Action
Reading is one way of learning. It does not replace reflecting on experience or meditation or intuition, but reading books and reports can be a powerful tool for appropriate action, for innovation and creativity.
Reading can provide insights into new organizational structures and working relationships. In the Association of World Citizens‘ central activity of conflict resolution, books can provide analysis of power relations and the patterns of struggle centered on class, ethnic and religious conflicts and relations among States.
Books can also develop values of respect, benevolence and gratitude toward one another, toward dialogue and reconciliation.
Featured Image: a Crowd of protesters in Tahrir square (30 October 2019). By Revoulation2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Translated by Dr Anba Jawi and Catherine Temma Davidson…
Featured Image: Gandhi spinning at Birla House, Mumbai, August 1942. By Kanu Gandhi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Path to Indian Independence (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, 225pp) Simone Panter-Brick….
Featured Image: Prof. Oliver Richmond By Arianit, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Challenges of the NGO Peacebuilding (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005, 267pp.) As Kim Reimann writes in…
Featured Image: This symbolically represents an holistic approach to peacebuilding. By Consensusafp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. John W. McDonald with Noa Zanolli. The Shifting Grounds of Conflict…
Featured Image: Photo by Juliana Kozoski on Unsplash. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, 147pp.) Thomas Nordstrom has written a useful book which more accurately should have been calles: “The Need…
Featured Image: Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán on Pixabay By René Wadlow. October 24 is United Nations (U. N.) Day; marking the day when there were enough ratifications; including those…
Featured Image: Photo by Avi Chomotovski in Pixabay (Berkeley, CA : Conari Press, 2000, 263pp). Louise Diamond; a co-founder of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Washington, DC; works in areas…
Featured Image: Paulo Freire Panel. CEFORTEPE – Center for Training, Technology and Educational Research Prof. “Milton de Almeida Santos”, SME-Campinas. By Luiz Carlos Cappellano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. By…
Featured Image by Basil D Soufi, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons 27 Sep 2019 – The international relations specialist Stanley Hoffmann once quipped: “Goals are easy to describe. What…
Featured Picture: JRamatsui, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2018) As Robert Vinson highlights “When Albert Luthuli; president of the African National Congress (ANC). …