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Category Archives: Identity
The Saudi Arabian Year of Volunteering
Every Christmas, I spend my holidays mixing a little R&R on the beach with a study visit to a new undiscovered (by me) country. This time I picked Saudi Arabia. After years of listening to the swathes of media reports … Continue reading
The compact between government and civil society in Sweden
In the year of 1931 five trade union activists were gunned down by the Swedish military during a manifestation for labour rights in a small town in Northern Sweden, Ă…dalen. It immediately became evident that the twenty years of violent … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, European civil society, Identity, Innovation, Sweden
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What can Europe learn from Golf?
I have to be honest and say that never in all my time in education or in the beginnings of my career in the third sector did I think that one day, I would be possibly writing about these two … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Cross-sector Learning, Europe, Identity
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