Game Change: Jamaican Youth on the Green (Caribbean Kids Golf)

by Opal Palmer Adisa

A cultural mosaic of conceptions of time

« Quand à Rome, fais comme les Romains » When in Rome, do as the Romans. It has been a month since I have arrived in France and started working at UNESCO. Oh, how time flies. My first couple weeks have been very exciting. The UNESCO building reminds me of a…

Getting lost and found in translation: Mixing languages

At UNESCO, the official two business languages are French and English. It is common to hear people switch from one to the other in meetings, conversations and even in emails. French is a beautiful language, however Parisian French is…

Re-Imagining Colonial Properties in St. Croix

Project Lead: La Vaughn Belle

La Vaughn Belle is a visual artist from Trinidad & Tobago who now lives and works in St. Croix. With her artistic background as the foundation, she has renovated and revitalized a building in…

Charleston, Sousse, Kuwait City, Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, Churches Burning: Resilience as Survival #LoveWins

In the last two weeks all of the cities in the title have experienced some type of horrific, hate-fueled, and/or traumatic violence. In the last…

Dreamscaping Part 3: Soñamos El Mundo

One of my critiques on the way current development work is done is that it focuses very heavily on implementing projects and programs on people without working with the people. It treats them as subjects instead of as people with agency. The lack of effective…

Remembering Sarajevo: Being Present in Bosnia

As the freezing fog cleared, I looked down at Sarajevo and got an impression of the ease with which murder once rained down from the hills cradling the city. When the Bosnian war began in 1992, over 400,000 Sarajevo citizens were living in the…