By Paul Anel April 27, 2012
Japan, Resilience. Reading Time: 3 min.
Japan's "resilience" to the catastrophe of the Tohoku Earthquake is widely praised, and looked at as a model. But looking at statistics, and talking to Japanese people, I discovered that this so-called and much-admired "resilience" hides a different, and tragic, reality.
By Paul Anel April 27, 2012
Movie, Food, Reading Time: 3 min
By Natalia Fassano April 20, 2012
Interview, Dance, Reading time: 5min
John H. is passionate about tango, which he has danced for more than 10 years. In this interview, he tells us what the Argentinian dance can reveal about human relationships.
Apolline Bergier April 20, 2012
Reading time: 3min
Passionate about conflict resolution through mediation, Randall Butler created, in 2007, the Institute for a Sustainable Peace (ISP*). He shared with us his experience and those of his colleague in the ISP, Makki Ibrahim Makki, with the leaders of “Fur” and “Bin Mansur,” two Darfur Tribes, which have been at war for over 10 years.
By Paul Anel April 13, 2012
Reading Time: 2 min
I know, Vietnam sounds like a bad word, but it is not quite as bad as it sounds… not anymore. Let's make it clear: yes, communists still run the country. But times are changing, as Bob would say. The Regime is divided and on the brink of a schism: while the old-timers, those who hold fast to the torch of ideology and proudly look back at the 70's, are now carrying the weight of their own eighties, a new and more liberal generation of politicians increasingly occupy the scene…
By Gonzague Leroux April 6, 2012
Culture – Art – Reading Time: 4 min
The Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven, CT, offers until September an exhibition entitled The Sabbath of History: William Congdon – Meditations on Holy Week. This exhibition combines major artworks by William Congdon, a foremost painter of the 50’s in New York, with pieces by Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell and Newman, with passages from “Meditations on Holy Week“ by Joseph Raztinger (Pope Benedict XVI). After his conversion to Catholicism in 1959, Congdon started a series of about 200 Crucifixes, through which we can capture theological insights and the story of a conversion of a soul. He interweaves art and theology in a new way for our modern times.
