Pandemic Identities – How COVID-19 is affecting “us” and “them”
In this recording OICD patrons Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern discuss how COVID is shaping the world’s most powerful imaginative structures –...
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Identity and Culture
Unveiling Identity’s True Complexity
Why should we remain curious about and aware of the multiplicity of people’s lived realities? Because dominant discourses will never reveal the true complexity of why people...
Weaponized Identities: Mankind’s Ultimate Tool of Destruction?
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White We humans have made weapons from many things over countless millennia. Weapons have been carved from wood, blown from pipes,...
Identities are Built
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White The popularity of books such as Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari periodically thrust a key finding of...
Divisive Identities Cause Conflict
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White I find myself saying it a lot: the roots of so much division and conflict are in identity. For some conflict transformation NGO...
Barometers of Inclusion: Is it Possible to Measure “Cultural” Integration?
A number of local and national governments across the world are trying to find ways to understand how and to what extent their populations are “integrated”. Some nations are...
Understanding Intra-Cultural Development: The Capacity for Change
Read OICD Director Bruce White's summary of the Intra-Cultural Development approach.