The following testimonial is provided by John Chappell, a 2019 Salaam Fellow, and is based on his experience in the Salaam Fellowship for Conflict Resolution. Ever since I participated in the Salaam Fellowship, I have found myself constantly applying the skills I learned. Learning negotiation and conflict resolution skills was an exceptional opportunity to step […]
The United Nations World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development provides us with an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to learn to live together better. In 2009, when the Open Hands Initiative was founded, we wanted to create innovative platforms for ordinary citizens from across the […]
This post first appeared on the Huffington Post. Following the attacks in Paris late last year, Somali-British poet Warsan Shire’s poem, What they did yesterday afternoon, flooded the Internet in response. The poem read: