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

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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

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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

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