World Radio Day: Democratic Youth Education in Angola
City Manager and Head of the Cefato Matoco Council, Tando Fransisco, meets with the School Parliament participants to share information.
By Audra Gustin
In celebration of World Radio Day this month, The Soul Beat newletter highlights the role of SFCG in using radio in Africa’s social development, from peacebuilding to civic education to community radio research.
As the second part of a three-piece series, the focus today will be on the democratic radio outreach to youth in Angola. read more…
World Radio Day
By Audra Gustin
Radio is an important, yet often overlooked, dimension of today’s communication systems.
In the explosion of social media, iPhones and thousands of television channels, it can be easy to overlook this fundamental technology that preceded it all and still plays a huge role in connecting much of the world that lacks stable access to energy and more sophisticated equipment.
So on World Radio Day, SFCG celebrates the transformational power of radio. We celebrate its ability to read more…
Prison Team with coach
By Audra Gustin
One of Jakarta’s biggest cinemas, Blitzmegaplex at Grand Indonesia Mall, was packed tonight for an unlikely premiere: Tim Bui, or literally “Prison Team.” read more…
SFCG mediates land dispute in eastern DRC
Mediation between Layi town and their local chief
By Audra Gustin
“Our chief sold our ancestor’s land to a Lendu…He should be beaten for doing that!”
The Programme of Expanded Assistance to Returnees Plus, PEAR+, focuses on providing basic services to eastern DRC. Funded by UNICEF, SFCG was tasked with uncovering and addressing conflicts that disrupt social cohesion and can impair the provision of these services. read more…
Islamic Chair of Peace Dove
By Audra Gustin
It is said in the Qur’an that different tribes were created so that we would get to know each other.
On February 1st, Professor Abdul Aziz Said opened with this anecdote to introduce a panel on Islam, Policy and the Changing Doctrine of Multiculturalism: How Countries are Understanding their New Sense of Pluralism. He suggested that the narrative of confrontation between Islam and the West could be transformed. read more…
Burmese Activists Look to a Brightening Horizon
"Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize." Aung San Suu Kyi
By Audra Gustin
“I was sanctioned,” he said, “my name, my voice.”
His name is Zarganar, the extraction of fear. He is one of the over 500 prisoners of conscience released by the Burmese government since October 2011. He joined Khin Than Myint, a close associate of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and Daw Bauk Gyar, a Kachin advocate, for the National Endowment for Democracy’s panel on Burma’s Changing Political Landscape: A Conversation with Three Leading Activists.
During the panel discussion, these brave activists reflected on their recent experiences. read more…
