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'For A Change' articles These articles first appeared in the magazine 'For A Change' - www.forachange.net
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Any history of Initiatives of Change might have a chapter dedicated to to three American brothers, the Colwells. Their contribution to this work for reconciliation is unknown to today’s generation but they once played a vital, inspiring and often taken-for-granted role.
01 December 2006
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The year 2007 will be the 200th anniversary of William Wilberforce leading the battle to end the transatlantic slave trade.
01 October 2006
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A unique sacred space in the heart of London where people of all faiths, or none, can meet with others from different traditions and explore differences in a spirit of friendship and respect.
01 August 2006
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Catholic, Jew and Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Confucianist all find they can change where needed and travel along the good road together.
01 June 2006
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The attempted rescue of a beached whale in the Thames was a testament to the immediacy with which events are transmitted around the world and the hold that animals have over us humans.
01 April 2006
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It would be hard to conclude that the world is safer than it has been, that there has actually been a decline in the number of wars, genocides and human rights abuses over the past decade - yet two prestigious research organisations, 3,000 miles apart, have independently come to that conclusion.
01 February 2006
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Mohieddine Chehab, a fighter in a Sunni leftist militia, led his men up a staircase littered with corpses while Assaad Chaftari, an artillery commander of the Christian militia, was on a top floor shooting at anyone who moved.
20 December 2005
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Though apologies have an important place in healing national and international relations, it is often difficult to know when they are appropriate.
01 December 2005
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Mayor Shinzo Hamai chose something quite remarkable for the inscription on the memorial to the first atom bomb: ‘Rest in peace. For we shall not make the same mistake again.’
01 October 2005
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The damage was done when politicians started believing the cases they had made.
01 August 2005
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For many the war years were enough adventure to last a lifetime.
01 June 2005
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For five years Bishop Malkhaz Songulashvili and his church had been the focus of attacks led by a defrocked Orthodox priest.
01 April 2005
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Thousands of American families—and Canadian families too—offered to take in British children for the duration of the war.
01 February 2005
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A child’s perspective is often unexpected, occasionally amusing, sometimes challenging.
01 December 2004
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The city of Coventry in the English Midlands has had a long and honourable tradition in peace building, since its 14th century cathedral was destroyed in 1940.
01 February 2004
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The most productive and radical approach is to address what we can deal with and take responsibility for.
01 August 2000
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This year is the 25th anniversary of the beginning of Lebanon's civil war, and the tenth anniversary of its end. Until now Beirut has had no public memorial for the victims of that war. The competition is organized by a Lebanese company entrusted with the reconstruction and development of the historic core of the city.
01 June 2000
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In 1999, as its last formal act of the millennium, Liverpool City Council passed unanimously a resolution apologizing for the city's role in the Atlantic slave trade.
01 April 2000
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There may be some question about how long you are to speak. On such occasions I remember that a certain economics professor had a reputation for long speeches. His wife said, 'After you have heard one of my husband's speeches you may not be any wiser but you're certainly a lot older.'
01 February 2000
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This bold grandmother compares her latest move - a call for a UN World Day of At-One-Ment - to a dandelion seed. 'I keep blowing hopefully in different directions and ask God to bless the thought which he put in my head until it finds fertile soil.'
01 December 1999
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