The Value of Culture Exchanges
14th June 2023
Our short visit of 6 days to visit our Initiatives of Change Romania colleagues and friends was joyful. When the UK separated from the rest of Europe, it left a divide, a wound, a brokenness with individuals, communities and nations within the UK and Europe. The impact of Brexit has…
How Business Organisations Can Learn From the Wisdom of First Nation Peoples
23rd May 2023
Australian author Andrew O’Keeffe drew on the wisdom of First Nation societies when he addressed an online webinar of Initiatives of Change in Business and the Economy (ICBE) on 10 May. O’Keeffe wrote his new book First Leaders (2023) (www.firstleadersbook.com) following his visits to 11 First Nation societies around the…
Seeking Peace in Mali
19th May 2023
In 2022 I celebrated 29th May, the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, in Gao, in Northern Mali, with the UN Mission MINUSMA. The conflict in Mali has deep roots, combining colonial occupation, class tensions, trafficking and trading routes interrupted by twentieth-century lines on maps, land and livelihood pressures exacerbated by…
Theatre - A Way of Life
17th May 2023
My husband was intrigued by what made individuals take an interest in a particular activity or hobby. For instance, as a boy he was fascinated by buses – all kinds of models – and man and boy he loved cricket. I, on the other hand, have been interested in theatre…
A Parliament Roundtable Addressing Knife Crime
17th April 2023
On Wednesday 29th March, Brunel University students, who have been working with Initiatives of Change Sustainable Communities Programme as part of their Global Challenges degree over the past six months, concluded an aspect of their final year studies at the Houses of Parliament with a roundtable discussing knife crime in…
75 Years of Stories, A New Publication by IofC Switzerland
13th April 2023
76 years ago, a derelict hotel in Montreux, Switzerland overlooking Lake Geneva, was bought by families and individuals associated with The Oxford Group, turning it into an international conference centre. Just over 75 years later, on April 7th 2023, IofC UK was happy to host the launch of recently published…
Purity - A Force for Good
8th March 2023
Women and girls are having a tough time. Whether things have got worse in this generation or not is hard to say but more and more evidence of their mistreatment is coming to light. Every day we hear reports of women being humiliated, discriminated against, harassed, touched inappropriately, physically assaulted…
How can Peace be Achieved in the Korean Peninsula?
6th March 2023
On Thursday 23 February, Initiatives of Change UK, along with Relational Peacebuilding Initiatives, hosted the launch of Michael Schluter’s new book ‘No Other Way to Peace in Korea? A Practical Path to Reunification’ at Greencoat Place. An audience of diplomats, scientists, peacebuilders, clergy, academics, musicians, authors, and activists gathered at…
Amanda Clements: Key Thoughts from HERE Conference
16th February 2023
At the end of last year, Amanda Clements, Curriculum Developer for our Refugees as Rebuilders Programme attended the Hub for European Refugee Education (HERE), a two-day Conference in Nottingham, which brought together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and third-sector organisations to engage in critical conversations on refugee education. The event focused on Refugee…
Kahramanmaras Earthquake: Farid Rashid Recalls Effects in Syria
12th February 2023
Farid Mohammad Rashid, one of our RRB™ trainers, shares an account he has gathered from news reports and close sources of the effects in Northern Syria as a result of the earthquake that occurred in the early hours of 6th February. At 4:17am, a new chapter of suffering started in…