The United Nations World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development provides us with an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to learn to live together better. In 2009, when the Open Hands Initiative was founded, we wanted to create innovative platforms for ordinary citizens from across the […]
Dialogue. Sharing. Understanding. Reconciliation. Trust. Friendship. Community. Change agents. Celebration. These are just some of the words our faculty and student ambassadors have used to describe their experiences during week one of our Post-Conflict Colombia Public Health project. Sharing their personal health stories, whether as clinical practitioners, public health professionals, or healthcare users, common to all […]
This post first appeared on the Huffington Post. Following the attacks in Paris late last year, Somali-British poet Warsan Shire’s poem, What they did yesterday afternoon, flooded the Internet in response. The poem read: