Michael W. Waters On August 11, 1973, a party in the recreation room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the South Bronx became the unlikely birthplace of a movement; hip hop. Forty years removed from its genesis, hip hop remains vibrant, influencing everything from linguistics and politics...
Graffiti and public speaking have an ancient pedigree. In classical Greece and Rome, public speaking was known as rhetoric – the composition and delivery of speeches. It was an important skill in public and private life. The Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Roman orator Quintilian...
Pacific Island peoples and communities are facing unprecedented challenges to their economies and environment - at least some of themcauses by the impacts of climate change. Journalists can play a key role in identifying and making public the global, national and...
A film about the imposition of a totalitarian form of Islam on a village in Mali won the prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2014. Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, a film maker from Mauritania, tells the story of how...
The following speech was given at the 18th European Television Festival for Religious Programmes, co-organised by independent members of the Dutch Public Broadcaster NPO. Henk Hagoort is NPO chairman.
The Participate initiative provides high quality evidence on the reality of poverty at ground level, bringing the perspectives of the poorest into the post-2015 debate. Participate aims to:
La actual crisis mundial que está afectando a millones de personas, muestra una fuerte erosión del sistema político, social y económico imperante, que como el ave Fénix está procurando renacer de sus propias cenizas. Una de las claves para entender el gigantesco avance del...
Rolando Pérez, profesor del Departamento Académico de Comunicaciones de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, forma parte de uno de los equipos ganadores del concurso organizado por el Vicerrectorado de Investigación (VRI). También es el coordinador del estudio: “Nuevos roles de la religión en...
This article documents the genesis of an innovative voter education campaign developed by an advertising agency in Peru having a strong social agenda....
The documentary film “The Act of Killing” reflects the ongoing impunity enjoyed by the paramilitary groups responsible for the crimes of Suharto’s regime in Indonesia in the late 1960s. Applauded by critics, internationally awarded and nominated for an Oscar in 2014 in the category...
