Silvia Fontana| 28th June 2016 The recent UK referendum on EU gives us a good starting point to the discussion on the importance of re-building a culture of peace in our communities through education. Mere propaganda, poor analysis of the phenomena and/or institutions of our days, in primis (for the UK debate) the refugees challenges […]
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Sandro Calvani| 23 June 2016 Donde no hay bala hay baile… where there is no shooting, let’s party. A well-known Colombian saying so reminds of some essential point of Colombian culture. I learned it in the early 2000s, during the first days of diplomatic service for the United Nations in Colombia. The one who taught
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Farida Bena | 31 May 2016 The first-ever World Humanitarian Summit is over, with mixed results. For those, including me, who were hoping the discussion would tackle some of the root causes of humanitarian crises, like the lack of political solutions to fundamentally political problems, the conference was a missed opportunity. Germany’s Angela Merkel was the
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Sandro Calvani| 17 Maggio 2016 We are not living an era of change, we are leaving a change of era. We are at the beginning of a Copernican revolution of minds, an unprecedented new paradigm of togetherness for the future of sustainable humankind. Thought-leaders in every culture of the world are trying to describe the
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Giampiero Giacomel is the Director of the Master FRAME- Master in FundRaising Management in the NGOs Business Administration, Marketing, Communication, Social Media, Campaigns and a former student of the Social Change School. He tells us how he has become Development Executive at the University of the Highlands and Islands and actor of social change. I come
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Paola Cocchi | HRM Amref Health Africa | 26 May 2016 The right person at the right place. This is the objective of both recruiters and selected ones. It seems so easy and predictable but, on the contrary, it increasingly becomes a “mission impossible”, not only for those who want to enter or situate again
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Zeno Filippi| HRM Amnesty International| 10th may 2016 The vast majority of people working in the NGOs and in the non-profit organisations in general, admits to be dissatisfied by the management procedures of the evaluation process and in the past months, an intense debate has been developed between the responsible parties. Referring to “Performance Management”,
What does it mean to become a humanitarian operator, work on the field and coordinate a team project in difficult and challenging environments? How can you relate yourself with local partners, sponsors, institutional donors and all the stakeholders involved? From 11th to 15th April, as guest at the UNHRD headquarters in Brindisi, students enrolled in
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Silvia Fontana | 3th May 2016 The presentation at the World Bank (WB) of the initiative Let Girls Learn (LGL) by Michelle Obama and the announcement made by the WB about its investment of at least 2.5 billion dollars in young girls’ education have caused a stir, especially among those who are not specialized in
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Stefano Oltolini | 22 April 2016 Over the course of my professional career I have been fortunate to occupy different roles. I have been desk-manager for NGOs, grant manager for Foundations, as well as grant-seeker for NGOs looking to build partnerships with Foundations. From these experiences I have developed an understanding of the potential and
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