While sports have the power to create barrier-breaking diversity, sports journalism has remained immune. According to a study by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, 88.3 percent of sports reporters are men. The same study found also found that on average 90 percent of those men are white. In a field where diversity struggles…
In the Washington Post last year Michael Semple (former Deputy to the European Union Special Representative for Afghanistan) presented five myths on 'talking to terrorists'. He might have added a sixth: that it is only governments or diplomats that do the talking. Conciliation Resources’ new Accord Insight publication puts a spotlight on how communities engage…
The heartfelt message behind Shel Silverstein’s 1964 children’s book, The Giving Tree has made its way off the pages and into real life thanks to one Oakland, California, resident. A tree along a city sidewalk in the Lake Merritt neighborhood of Oakland was cut down last week, leaving behind just a small stump and thick piece of…
FARC´s weapons apprehended by the Colombian authorities. Flickr. Some rights reserved. This year ends with vitally important progress in the negotiation process between the Colombian government and the FARC. On the one hand, the official announcement of an agreement on the victims is now a fact. On the other, Sergio Ibáñez, a member of the…
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. Before Le Petit Cambodge, the day after the Paris attacks, November 2015. Wikicommons/ Maya Anais-Yataghene. Some rights reserved. Paris has been hit at its heart. The attacks did not target the Eiffel Tower or the ancient path…
Credit: Mauro Biani (http://maurobiani.it/)/Il Manifesto. All rights reserved.At the end of last year, as politicians and pundits cheered on coalition airstrikes in Syria, I wrote this: “The war on ISIS has already been lost. As regional instability escalates predictably as a direct consequence of the US-UK led non-strategy, ISIS will become stronger, and reactionary terrorist…
This article originally appeared on Grist. Scott Pruitt, new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, had cozy ties with energy companies while serving as Oklahoma’s attorney general, as The New York Times reported in 2014 and again this week. The Center for Media and Democracy just got ahold of thousands of emails from Pruitt’s time as attorney general. A few choice tidbits: Pruitt’s office asked…
PT meeting in 2013. Cesar Ogata/Flickr. All rights reserved. At dinner, someone asked the time from the Swiss guard on duty. Looking at his watch and seeing that it had passed midnight, he said, “It's already tomorrow, gentlemen”. This anecdote was chosen by the Brazilian political and social thinker Alberto Torres when, in the early…
For the first few weeks of a baby’s life, swaddling has numerous benefits. It allows them to sleep calmly because they’re not disturbed by their startle reflex. Plus, it keeps them warm and secure, reminiscent of their first nine or ten months in the womb. Now, in Japan, people are opening up to the concept…
PEPSI. Flickr/Mike Mozart. Some rights reserved.In 1979, I was almost seven years old when the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan and my father decided to move the family from Herat, my home town in the west of the country, to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Once we crossed the border, my father unloaded a few household things…