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...
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Articles on Identity and Culture
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...
Nations on Display: Culture, Identity and Technological Innovation at Expo 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan
By OICD Research Fellow, Dr. Aliya Tskhay On what occasion do all major nations of the world present and project images of who they are in the world the same place at...
What percentage of all conflict is caused by identity?
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...
Ellen Kaplan on how theatre can help heal the wounds of war
Every month identity insight features an article outling the work of a key member of the OICD. This month Ellen Kaplan, chair of Theatre, professor of acting and directing at...