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Published in: TransformationCups of love and cups of courage: facing up to the everyday realities of violenceStructural solutions are vital, but real security starts inside each one of us.
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Published in: TransformationThree research-based ways to cultivate kindness in your lifeAre you lacking in kindness? Here are three strategies for bringing more into your life.
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Published in: TransformationPresent perfectWith neither past nor future in common, what do relationships that exist entirely in the present have to offer?...
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Published in: TransformationWhy kindness is the key to a new economyWe learn kindness from our mothers - could we use it to replace the free market with a gift economy?
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Published in: TransformationWill you commit class suicide with me?Recognizing that privilege is unearned is essential to dismantling the white saviour complex.
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Published in: TransformationWhere are the missing mystics of the revolution?Mysticism can undermine the social and political order in fundamental ways.
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Published in: TransformationWelcome to the empathy warsStepping into other people’s shoes has been a catalytic force for social change throughout human history.
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Published in: TransformationCan you train your brain to be more compassionate?We found changes in regions associated with empathy, emotion regulation and reward processing.
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Published in: TransformationShould compassion be an election issue?Compassion isn’t the property of Labour or the Conservatives, but when both parties embrace it does it mean anything at all?
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Published in: TransformationCan money be a force for good?There is more money in the world than at any other point in human history, so why doesn’t it reach the places that...
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Published in: TransformationStrivers and skivers? We’re all in this togetherCould society be rebuilt around understanding and compassion instead of shame? The effects would be revolutionary.
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Published in: TransformationHow the Home Office keeps getting it wrong on LGBTQ asylum seekersThe Home Office says that asylum seeker Aderonke Apata can't be a lesbian as she has had children with a man. The...
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Published in: TransformationThe political emotions of Martha NussbaumWhy does love matter for democracy? A conversation with one of the world’s leading philosophers.
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Published in: TransformationCan pluralism be taught?Human conflict is unavoidable, but violence is not. By facing up to the ‘unacceptable’ we can learn to live with difference.
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Published in: TransformationWhy we need the internet more today than ever beforeBeing able to transmit and receive on so many different levels to such a variety of audiences may be rewiring us for...
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Published in: TransformationFinding a way to live with people we don't likeDavid Edgar's Iron Curtain Trilogy shows empathy is the key to the transformation of the the left/right political divide.
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Published in: TransformationSeven practical ideas for compassionate communitiesIt's not hard to bring more equality into each other’s lives. Here are seven concrete ideas and experiments.
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Published in: TransformationSix ways to bring more empathy to the internetHow can web users promote more empathetic interaction online? This is the fifth installment in our series on social...
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Published in: TransformationCollective memory, collective trauma, collective hatredTrauma runs through the narratives of both Israelis and Palestinians in the form of the Holocaust and the Nakba. But...
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Published in: TransformationI know why I’m obsessed with Jews, but why are you?Can we care for people who don't look, speak and think like us? Only greater knowledge of our own responsibility for...
