Recently added articles from For A Change:
Ear to the ground.
Dec 01, 2006; ... Letting go In the yogic tradition, the practice of pratyahara teaches you to let go, through first facing up to your pain and entering into it. This requires determination. We tend to defer things like this which have to do with our wellbeing, and it isn't difficult ...
Who cares?(FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK)
Dec 01, 2006; ... With a name like For A Change the choice of theme for the last lead story was an obvious one: living with change. And of course it' s not only at milestone moments like these that we face change. We wake up to it every day--global change, institutional change, personal change. ...
Climate of change: the world has the resources to respond to climate change, maintains Alan Porteous. But we need to get on with it.(LEAD STORY)
Dec 01, 2006; ... HUMANITY is faced with a menacing question. What happens if we hit nature's thresholds, the so-called tipping points of the global systems that sustain us? And will we be left with the resources to adapt? The evidence for global climate change is becoming ever more visible ....
Business of change: when the whole context in which you've existed changes, what do you do? The Managing Director of a family firm describes his experience.(Company overview)
Dec 01, 2006 ... OUR FAMILY firm was founded by my great-great-grandfather in the early 19th century. My forebears had a strong Christian ethos, and this had significant consequences for the company when, in the 1930s, my grandfather accepted the challenge to let the Methodist faith, which he proclaimed ...
To Romania, withCdetermination: his dream was to go to Antarctica. Instead he has spent his life challenging totalitarianism, and its aftermath. Patrick Colquhoun talks to Mary Lean.(Profile)(Brief biography)
Dec 01, 2006; ... YEARS AGO, when he was living in Oxford, Patrick Colquhoun rode his bike at full speed into the back of a truck. He went on down to the river to ride along the bank directing a boat in a sculling race. Two hours later he had an x-ray, and discovered he had broken his neck. Call ...
Building peace from the grassroots.(PHOTOSTORY)
Dec 01, 2006; ... THIS MONTH sees the release of a new film, The Imam and the Pastor, which tells the story of a remarkable peacemaking partnership in northern Nigeria, a region where thousands have been killed in Muslim-Christian conflicts. The film's protagonists, Imam Muhammad Nurayn Ashafa ...
Faith and reason is Islam: Egyptian professor Nasr Abu-Zayd speaks up for Islam's respect for the rational.(IN MY VIEW)
Dec 01, 2006; ... THE POPE'S LECTURE in September in Regensburg, Germany, about faith and reason in Christianity provoked the anger of Muslims all over the world. In some minor instances there were violent reactions. Though I would have preferred an intellectual, peaceful response, we have to ...
A walk on the wild side.(people making a difference)
Dec 01, 2006; ... TERRY O'LEARY'S brother was doing a PhD when he discovered he had a life-threatening disease. O'Leary dropped everything in order to take care of him. When he died, she was left without money, without a job and without a home, since she was not allowed to go on living in her brother's ...
Cards for an eco-friendly Christmas.(people making a difference)
Dec 01, 2006; ... WATABARAN, which means environmental sustainability in Nepali, is a fair-trade company established by Nepalese and Swedish youth. When its founder, Bjorn Soderberg, first arrived in Nepal in 2001, the environmental state of the capital city, Katmandu, disturbed him immensely. ...
Hope for a change: Stan Hazell looks back over the years since the magazine was launched.(PAST AND FUTURE)
Dec 01, 2006; ... WHEN For A Change was launched 19 years ago the magazine team set out to feed you, the readers, with a diet of hope. They said they wanted to create something different from other publications by focusing on what was going right in the world as well as what was going wrong. 'We also wanted ...
For A Change Online: Mike Lowe is at the hub of a team shaping a metamorphosis for the magazine.
Dec 01, 2006; ... IT'S TIME for a change at For A Change. From early 2007 an enthusiastic new team will begin to chart a course for the next phase of the magazine's development. For A Change Online will appear at www.forachange.net and the site will also still be available at www.forachange.co.uk ...
Hooked for life: Paul Williams has been editing Turning Point since it began in 1992. He tells Laura Boobbyer about some of the significant moments in his own life.(turning point)
Dec 01, 2006; ... PAUL WILLIAMS can't remember the first major turning point in his life. He was an 11-month-old baby, curled up in a tight ball with a severe form of tubercular meningitis. The doctors tried flashing lights in his eyes and sticking pins in his body, but there was no reaction. As ...
Something to sing about.(A DIFFERENT BEAT)(Book review)
Dec 01, 2006; ... IN MY last column I pay tribute to three American brothers whom I first met in a Hollywood theatre more than 50 years ago. Any history of Initiatives of Change might have one chapter headed 'the Colwell years'. Their contribution to this work for reconciliation is unknown to today's ...
A, be, see.(REFLECTIONS)
Dec 01, 2006; ... 'THERE IS no way to peace,' Mahatma Gandhi declared. 'Peace is the way.' More enigmatically, English poet TS Eliot wrote, 'In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not!' In Australia, social activist and Christian writer Dave Andrews ...
Peace, bread and health.(GUEST COLUMN)
Dec 01, 2006; ... In my culture, as in most other cultures, we wish somebody well when we wish them peace, daily bread and good health. These three things embody humanity's greatest longings. The main precondition for peace, or comprehensive security as some call it, is good global governance, ...
Art power: whether you're a clown, a singer, an actor or simply a member of the audience, you have an impact on the world, Mary Lean discovers.(RENEWAL ARTS)(Cover story)
Oct 01, 2006; ... DARREN RAYMOND knows what a powerful effect the arts can have on people's lives. While serving a sentence in Brixton Prison, London, in 2003, he went along to a drama class. 'I found myself playing silly games, and wondered what I had put myself into,' he told a group at the ...
No time to dance the tango: Themon Djaksam joins Africans from across the continent to address the issues of corruption and good governance.(AFRICAN DIALOGUE)(Conference notes)
Oct 01, 2006; ... PEOPLE FROM 24 AFRICAN countries converged on Caux in August to attend 'An Honest Dialogue for a Clean and Just Africa'. The conference brought together 463 delegates from 70 countries in every corner of the globe: from Alaska to the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, and from Australia to ...
Integrity and integration: Ibrahima Fall, UN Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region in Africa, talks to Themon Djaksam about the themes of the conference.(AFRICAN DIALOGUE)(Conference news)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2006; ... What is the most important question for this African conference on corruption and good governance? It is a theme whose time has come, because with the end of a bi-polar world and the triumph of liberalism, there is no longer the fundamental need to compete which could be fuelled ...
Market leaders in trust and integrity: Michael Smith takes part in a conference that brings together business professionals, farmers and journalists seeking ethics at work.(GLOBAL ECONOMY)(Conference news)
Oct 01, 2006; ... AN EAST AFRICAN trainee teacher describes how he was cheated out of his income. As part of his degree, he taught in a private school for 26 hours--but was only paid $12, about a quarter of what he was owed. There was no written contract and he thought it was an agreement based on trust ....
In a world out of balance.(newsdesk)
Oct 01, 2006; ... A Global Indigenous Dialogue (GID) on the theme, 'Understanding our Roots: from healing to harmony' marked the United Nations International Day of Indigenous Peoples in Caux. Lewis Cardinal, an Aboriginal Relations Consultant from the Sucker Creek Cree First Nation in Northern ...