Cape Town is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, though this has not exactly translated into a rainbow of ethnic harmony. The legacy of apartheid still hangs heavy over South Africa. Cape Town is home to a large “colored” population: people who under the apartheid system were not considered either black […]
After its debut in 1996, the TV station al-Jazeera received praise for democratizing the media in Arab-speaking countries and quickly became a fixture among Arab viewers for its taboo-breaking reporting. After September 11, however, criticism mounted, particularly in the United States, that the Qatar-based station was anti-American and pro-terrorist – for its unflattering coverage of […]
Conflict resolution practitioners routinely stress the importance of listening. Mediators, arbitrators, and negotiators must listen carefully to the different sides of a conflict in order to either hammer out a compromise (arbitration) or to guide the participants to their own solution to the dispute (mediation). This conflict transformation approach doesn’t simply paper over differences of opinion […]
In 1934, as a huge strike paralyzed San Francisco, a group of artists embarked on the single largest federally funded collective art project in the United States. These muralists, many of them with radical politics, set to work on painting the equivalent of 3700 square feet of canvas. The canvas was Coit Tower, a cylindrical […]