News: Health
COVID-19 and our essential humanity: revealing what really matters
June 4, 2020Perhaps the biggest obstacle to practicing integral human development is our tendency to forget the meaning of its central term: human. In the twenty-first century, […]
Intimate partner violence: COVID-19 and our collective, ongoing responsibility to families
June 2, 2020“My husband won’t let me leave the house. He’s had flu-like symptoms and blames keeping me here [at home] on not wanting to infect others […]
COVID-19 and beyond: peacekeeping in war zones
May 29, 2020Editors’ note: May 29 is the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. Within two weeks of the World Health Organization’s assessment of rapidly spreading coronavirus […]
Post-coronavirus: The courage to build a “village of education”
May 27, 2020Half a year ago, in December 2019, I boarded a plane to return to Ukraine and to Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) after a research semester […]
A moment of opportunity
May 26, 2020As we have all become aware, the onslaught of COVID-19 has brought about untold misery. With every life having dignity, every death is a tragedy. […]
Racism, human dignity, and the “sick man of Asia”
May 21, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a massive rise in incidents of racism against people from China and more broadly against people appearing to […]
Women under the weight of lockdown
May 21, 2020It does not come as a surprise that, as the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economic and social wellbeing of the population are […]
The Corona Hotel in Jerusalem: Is this how the light gets in?
May 18, 2020I always search for comedic relief. This is one of the reasons why I have supported the work of Noam Shuster, a Jewish Israeli with […]
A time for rainy day decisions—before the next downpour comes
May 12, 2020COVID-19 has proven expertly equipped to do what disasters do best: highlight vulnerabilities in systems, processes, and infrastructure, whether they be physical, social or economic—particularly […]