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Terri Beswick

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Vulnerable

Vulnerability framing does a wonderful job of sustaining the practice of sympathy over empathy and altruism over justice.

Sep 1, 2020

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Sep 1, 2020

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Project

For some reason, crucial societal work is often funded through small, piecemeal, temporary grants provided by donors.

Jul 14, 2020

A Word on Words: Project

Jul 14, 2020

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Reform

When reforms can be spontaneously ‘given’, it’s simply further evidence of who holds the power to take them away.

Jul 2, 2020

A Word on Words: Reform

Jul 2, 2020

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Security

As long as contemporary security is intertwined with notions of hierarchy and control, the dream of being free-from-care won’t be a…

Jun 30, 2020

A Word on Words: Security

Jun 30, 2020

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Civil Society

These are dangerous times to be an active citizen, but without civil society, at what point does public order turn into public obedience?

Jun 30, 2020

A Word on Words: Civil Society

Jun 30, 2020

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion has gone viral and even the world of policymaking isn’t immune.

Jun 29, 2020

A Word on Words: Diversity & Inclusion

Jun 29, 2020

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Migrant

The character range in stories we read and hear about ‘migrants’ is usually reduced to: devil incarnate or helpless victim.

Jun 29, 2020

A Word on Words: Migrant

Jun 29, 2020

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Peace

It might be time to question the notion that continuous spending on containing war will magically deliver a return on peace.

Jun 28, 2020

A Word on Words: Peace

Jun 28, 2020

Terri Beswick

A Word on Words: Gender

With conflicts and responses locked in a vicious cycle of tactics focused on competing for dominance, how is this not a question of gender.

Jun 28, 2020

A Word on Words: Gender

Jun 28, 2020

Terri Beswick

Terri Beswick

British-Jamaican civil society strategist and facilitator, how & why enthusiast, full-time interdisciplinarian @ iklektik thepoliticalpractice.org (she/her)

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