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 do things, the
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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 postdoctoral
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, shaped from stone and
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 the Human
Plural Identities Counter Divisions and Promote Peace
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 path-breaking book Identity and Violence. In the
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 and
Quote of the Week
This week's quote is taken from The Crisis of the State and Regionalism in West Africa: Identity, Citizenship and Conflict, Edited by W. Alade Fawole and Charles Ukeje: ‘Clearly, war and debilitating conflicts
Quote of the Week
Our quote of the week feature has been moved to Tuesday, in order to make room for a brand new Regional Round-Up feature - look out for it this Friday! We
Quote of the Week
'Identity is like fire. It can create warmth and comfort or burn badly and destroy.' Taken from Gary Younge, Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Are-We-Should-Century/dp/0670917036