Crafting Cohesion in Colombia – Real World Work at the OICD & ReD
by Luke Reilly Identity and Culture are not only important concepts to discuss theoretically but are also vital tools for building real world solutions to conflict and...
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Articles on Identity and Culture
Coffee with Identity Digest – Sandra Obradović
by Oliver Puckey Amid the hustle and bustle of London’s Kingsway, I met with Sandra Obradović over coffee to discuss her current work and involvement in the OICD. Sandra is a...
Truth and Judgement in Sherwood Forest: Lessons in Classroom History and Ideology
by Fergus Selsdon Games The story of Robin Hood is among the most familiar in British folklore. Set against the backdrop of twelfth-century English forestry, the cunning Robin...
The Power of Hijacking the Human Imagination
Weaponized Identities: Mankind’s Ultimate Tool of Destruction? by BRUCE WHITE We humans have made weapons from many things over countless millennia. Weapons have been...
What to do with the Knowledge that Identities are Manmade?
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...
Constructing Identities that Oppose Constructions
OICD Intern Cristina Cusenza takes on one of the big themes in identity and cultural development: how can we diminish the power of dangerous and divisive singular identities...
Keeping it Plural: The Dangers of “Singular Identities”
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen makes clear his argument for the importance of maintaining multiple identities in his...
Imagining Lebanon from Japan
OICD interns are often interested in identities because they themselves have complex experiences of how identities work in the places they have grown up and/or find...
Where Identities Draw Lines in History
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White How do you answer the question “where are you from?”. If you are like most people, you’ll answer with the name...