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Searching for places world wide to do long term volunteering?

Filed Under: Volunteering by Georg — Leave a comment
January 14, 2012

Just found this information on the SCI International twitter tweet stream uhm thingy thing… :)

If you ever thought about travelling somewhere else and participating for a few months or a whole year in local projects there, gaining experience and working within the SCI family, here might just be your chance :D

To shortly cite the SCI LTEG group on what LTV is about:

What is LTV?

LTV stands for Long Term Volunteering project, which is an exchange of volunteers between SCI branches (and/or partner organizations), where volunteer commits to the project for longer than 1 month. It is open to any volunteer without a limit of age or any other. There is wide variety of projects and you can have a taste of it by taking a look at the Vacancies List here.

All the projects are non-profit and do not aim to replace paid labour in the organization.

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Why Civil Resistance Works

Filed Under: Antimilitarism, Video by Georg — Leave a comment
January 12, 2012

Here I present a video recording of a speech by Erica Chenoweth focusing on her research  and that of others on why civil resistance works. Erica Chenoweth presents her findings including data on nonviolent resistance, creating a strong link between successful resistance against violence and using nonviolent methodology:

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Book recommendation

Filed Under: Recommendations by Matteo — Leave a comment
December 16, 2011

I was blown away by this book, tip fro xmas reading. Basically to obtain real sustainble goals and changes the direct way is very really the best path. That’s too me it’s another way to put into great practice one of my mottos SIMPLE NOT EASY

Like Ceresole did not put it’s goal in creating a great movement but was reaching for Peace… the same way in no more war we are going to get there in oblique paths

The book is called “Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly” by John Kay. Below you can find an introduction into the basic ideas by the author himself:

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failure report

Filed Under: NMW-Group, Volunteering by Matteo — 6 Comments
December 13, 2011

so I have one question were as NO MORE WAR did we failed already? and more in general in what ever part of SCI or any other organizzation where did you fail?

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_damberger_what_happens_when_an_ngo_admits_failure.html

 

when are we going to make a failure report of our team and of our movement?
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Nonviolence? What do you mean?

Filed Under: Featured, Nonviolence by Georg — Leave a comment
December 5, 2011

From the last seminar from which I still want to write a report for you at one point, here some thoughts I had around different concepts and words surrounding non-violence. They will hopefully provide some food for thought, ideas or inspiration or you can use them as a starting point to draft your own definition against ;)

These are working definitions I use in seminars and for myself to gain deeper understandings – these all are work in progress and worthy of discussion, not fix and may not even represent my current opinion on them :)

NMW Street action in Germany from last seminar

What is nonviolence?

Any interaction which does not limit the possibilities of other beings without their free-willed consent.

Mohandas K. Ghandi developed a more elaborate concept of nonviolence based on three attitudes:

Ahimsa

The dedication to not injuring any being.

Satyagraha

The search and proclamation of truth and only truth while keeping in mind that one’s own truths may very well not be the truths of others or even be grounded in some form of objective truth.

Tapasya

Taking suffering onto one self instead of causing it to others. To Ghandi this was very important when trying to make others understand truths, as together with not wanting to hurt anyone, suffering can only be exerted onto yourself. Never upon others. View full article »

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