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Deir Mar Musa
The monastery of Deir Mar Musa el Habachi http://www.deirmarmusa.org/ is a place for hospitality, dialogue, exchange, learning and peace. It is located in the Syrian desert and host hundreds of visitors per year: pilgrims, backpackers, travelers, journalists... But also people from the local village around.
This is not a silent monastery, but a place where people can talk, exchange, share views, share meals, meet other people and get inspired by the…
Continue Posted on April 12, 2010 at 1:59pm
Innovation: games as Human rights dissemination tools
I enjoyed very much reading the material posted on innovation. Two secrets particularly talked to me: "innovation comes from constraint" and "don't fight culture".
I was working in Lebanon with undoc**ented Palestinian refugees. We wanted to make them more aware about their rights. There were a number of constraints:
- because they were undoc**ented they had limited access to formal education;
- they avoided moving around unnecessarily for fear of being…
Continue Posted on April 12, 2010 at 1:33pm — 1 Comment
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