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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

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