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Our speakers recommend:
Websites
- Kiva
- A site used to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty
- The GalGael Trust
- Deep elemental work with folks living in a hard-pressed urban situation
- International Fellowship for Reconciliation
- A mine of material on non-violence
- Kulika
- Kulika was established in 1981 in the UK as a grant-making charitable trust specialising in the provision of educational scholarships for East African students
- HACAN
- HACAN is an umbrella organization standing up for those who are adversely affected by air traffic through heathrow
- Damanhur
- A labatory for the future of humanity
- Earth First
- A “non-hierarchical organisation and the use of direct action to confront, stop and eventually reverse the forces that are responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants”
Books
- A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier
- Author: Ishmael Beah
Description: This is a first hand account of how wars are now fought: by children, on drugs, with AK-47’s by a child who has been to the brink and returned to tell his story
ISBN: 0007247095 - The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation
- Author: Thomas Homer Dixon
Description: There are ways to begin thinking about a better world.
ISBN: 978-0-285-63794-8 - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Author: Paul Freire
Description: A seminal text in education looking at the roles of suppression, political domination and authoritarian teaching
ISBN: 014025403X - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
- Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Description: An explanation of social trends and an exploration of the ‘tipping point’ where ideas, trends and behaviours suddenly ‘catch on’ and spread like wildfire
ISBN: 0316648523 - The Hospital by the River: A Story of Hope
- Author: Catherine Hamlin
Description: This book is Catherin Hamlin’s life story, an Australian woman who going on a short work placement as a doctor in Africa found herself, 40 years later, still there changing the lives of women dealing with the horrible effects of obstructed labour
ISBN: 1854246739 - The Age of Unreason: New Thinking For A New World
- Author: Charles Handy
Description: It’s about thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable. A look at alternative organisational structures and the benefits they could afford us
ISBN: 0099548313 - The Brothers of Karamazov
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Description: Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested
ISBN: 978-0140449242 - Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
- Author: Paul F. Maul
Description: A collection of essays from a group of social thinkers, philosophers and commentators, which has the feel of an underground zine or art student political rag mag.
ISBN: 097091010X - Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos & Other Global Challenges
- Author: Herbert Girardet
Description: A combined analysis presents why our current arrangements are failing and what can offer us hope.
ISBN: 1844076121
Organisations
- Architecture for Humanity
- This is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need
- My Society
- Teaching people how to use the internet charitable project and work
- Community Action Nepal
- Community Action Nepal helps and supports remote communities through Education, Health and Community Development programmes.
- Central Asia Institute
- To promote and support community based-education for girls in remote regions of Pakistan and Afganistan
- Disabled Living Foundation
- The Disabled Living Foundation provides free, impartial advice about all types of disability product and disabled equipment for older and disabled people, their carers and families
- The Nation of Damanhur
- A labatory for the future of humanity
