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Feature Articles
• Reflections: Our Salt-Water and Fresh-
Water Natures – Teresa Sosa Vegas
Traveling through the various landscapes of Venezuela from the Andes to the Amazon, the Grand Sabana to the Caribbean sea, it is amazing to see the diversity of plants, birds, ...More
• Leadership as a Discovery Process
-- Larry Philbrook
What is your definition of a leader? Mine has become one who is clear on his or her intention or mission, and is willing to be on a journey with others ...More
• Book Launch for The Courage to Lead, 2nd Ed - Jeanette Stanfield
Kawalpreet Singh, who has facilitated studies of The Courage to Lead, said this about the first edition of the book ...More
• The New Turn to the World
– Randy C Williams Full-article Extract
In 2012 the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) and its founding organization, the Ecumenical Institute (EI), will celebrate 50 years of service to the globe in anticipation of....More
• Looking Ahead to the Future (ICA-USA 50th) – Tom Wray
In 1962, a group of young activists joined the staff of the Ecumenical Institute in Chicago. Fifty years later, the EI and the Institute of Cultural Affairs are ...More
• Importance of Sovereignty for NGO’s
– Doug Reeler
The word sovereignty is well-used by small-farmer organisations and allied practitioners when they speak of food sovereignty or seed sovereignty as a right of ...More
• Localization – The Opportunity of Our Future – Ken Hamje
As we daily encounter the realities of changing climate and escalating food and energy prices, it’s becoming clear that one of the dominant realities of ...More
• Village Volunteers Reorients Funding for Projects in Africa – Jonathan Dudding
Since the inception of ICA, one of the drivers of our approach (and, since 1988, our structure) has been the recognition of the importance of local organisations ...More
• Education Convention on Creating a Euro -Mediterranean Identity – Eleonora Insalaco, Anna Lindh Foundation & Catalina Quiroz Nino
A group of 50 citizens from the Euro-Mediterranean region gathered in Alexandria on Oct 29-31 to hold the 1st Education Convention for ...More
• Europe’s Belieforama Project
– Catalina Quiroz Nino and Ine van Emmerik
Belieforama is a European project which offers a panoramic approach to issues of religion, belief and anti-discrimination, bringing people with a variety of ...More
• ICA Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Peer Educator Training Report – Seva Gandhi, Beauty Mangere, Mary Mtambo and Dr Robert True
Since 2009, ICA Zimbabwe has been providing training and support for the Rotary 3H Grant 66890, Community Empowerment in Zimbabwe. ...More
• Connecting to the Globe (Chikhale School)
– F Nelson Stover
During the 1970s, international consultants from the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) and care-filled community leaders from Panvel, Maharashtra, ...More
ToP (Technology of Participation) News
• ICA Chile’s ToP course uncovers a story of faith and hope – Isabel De la Masa Español
On the last ToP course given by ICA Chile at Alto del Carmen, we met Leonardo Díaz Véliz and his mother, Carmen Véliz. During the ...More
• ICA Chile - ToP Participant Interview
– Isabel De la Masa Español
Oscar is a young man who went to the Training Program for Participative Leaders (PELP), developed since 2001 in various cities of Chile, and is now ...More
• ToP methods turn around tribal leaders
– Ken Hamje
On October 23, 2011, the ICA-Peru staff received 31 tribal leaders at our Azpitia Training Center for a 3-week residential Leadership Formation program ...More
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ICA Reports
• Nepal – Tatwa Timsina
ICA Nepal held a press briefing on the 4th of Sept 2011 at the Himalaya Hotel, Kupondole, Nepal. The purpose of the event was to announce the launch ...More
• Spain - Catalina Quiroz Nino Español
Many people do not overcome emotional difficulties and dare to feel good about them selves and others because they think it is too difficult. Precisely for these ...More
• Guatemala - Isabel De la Masa Español
In January, we began checking out legal and taxes procedures so as to start our plan to re-open ICA Guatemala. We looked for 7 people for an ...More
• Zimbabwe – Gerald Gomani
ICA Zimbabwe was founded in 2000 and began operations in 2001. It envisions maintaining high standards of quality related to Technology of Participation (Top TM) as ...More
• India – Shankar Jadhav
Our work is in a cluster of four villages with a total population of about 5,000 in Mulshi Taluka, Pune District, Maharashtra state. ...More
• Canada – Nan Hudson
It’s interesting how we can spend our lives in service around the world but find it difficult to resolve thorny challenges in our own backyards. In the wake of centuries of ...More
• Australia – Karen Newkirk
ICA Australia is looking forward to its annual get together in January this year. Last year, we met on Jan 14 to 16 (Friday to Sunday) and elected a board of four members ...More
• Bangladesh – M Azizur Rahman
The Ghoramara Asrayan Prokalpa (Ghoramara shelter project) involves a landless community given land and housing by the Government of Bangladesh in 2002 ...More
• Japan – Wayne Ellsworth and Shizuyo Sato
Over the past three years, ICA Japan has had the calling to be in Peace Building by delivering emergency aid to people trapped by floods (Philippines, Thailand), homeless ...More
• Tajikistan - Nigina
Last year, EHIO (ICA’s official name, which can be translated as “Empowerment for Human Involvement Organization”) supported the women of ...More
ICA News Bytes
• United Kingdom – Martin Gilbraith
During the past quarter we delivered facilitation and training contracts for old and new clients in the UK, Dubai and Macedonia. We also ran six public ToP facilitation ...More
Book Review
• Anastasia by Vladimir Megre
Reviewed by Wayne Ellsworth
In my first article about Anastasia, I mentioned I had just received DVDs from the Ringing Cedar Series Bookstore and would review them carefully before ...More
• Nepal Conference Book Invitation
Tatwa Timsina
ICA Nepal will be publishing a book on ICA experiences in Nepal and in the World. We are looking for articles for this book. The book will be released ...More
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