Explosive Wisdom: What Landmines Teach Us About Liberation and Leadership

I had never thought much about landmines until I stepped on one in 1984, when I was twenty years old. I was camping in northern Israel with two friends and suddenly the earth exploded around me. I looked down at my shredded bloody legs in confused horror, wanting to know where my right foot had gone. Our hike had led us through an unmarked minefield left from the 1967…

My Experience in the Slums of Kibera, Nairobi

Several years ago I made a critical decision in my life to leave my comfortable home in the suburbs of New York City and travel to Kenya with an organization called Cross Cultural Thresholds for a five-day work trip in the slums of Nairobi. Cross Cultural Thresholds is an organization dedicated to working with local grassroots leaders focused on the education, care, health and hopes of the…

Toward A Common Theory of Value | Part Two: Common Trust

Beyond The Credit-Debt Pendulum: A Search for Common Value This series of articles examines the meaning of value in economics. Through the lens of the commons, we hope to stimulate a rethinking of the goals, methods and conceptual structures of economic theory and its modes of action. In Part One, we considered Aristotle’s contrast between C-M-C’ (the exchange of useful things through…

Mary Davidson

Mary Davidson has a rich history of investment management and holds advanced degrees in Business and History. Employed by The Bank of New York for 25 years, Mary managed stock and bond portfolios, each minimally $1M.  She also has a broad range of experience in education—from classroom teaching to fund-raising and alumni affairs. She travels to Africa frequently to improve the…

Designing The Future Of The Earth Together.

If we ever are to live in a world that we would really like to live in, we have to first agree on what such a world should look like. This has to happen with the full participation of *all* who are to share our common future. If we fail to engage all of those who have a stake in the future of the world, we shall continue to work towards different objectives, resolving our differenes in real life,…

Spring | Summer 2012

The Great Coming Together | in this issue Editorial   Read now TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS SERIES – PART ONE Contemporary Leaders of Courage and Compassion: Competencies and Inner Capacities Monica Sharma   Read now TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS SERIES – PART TWO Explosive Wisdom: What Landmines Teach Us About Liberation and Leadership…

Burns Weston

Retired from full-time teaching on The University of Iowa law faculty in May 1999, Professor Weston began his legal career in 1961 with the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1966, after two years as a Sterling Fellow and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Yale Law School, he joined The University of Iowa College of Law and since then has served as…

Cheyenna Weber

Cheyenna Weber grew up in rural West Virginia--where economic, ecological, physical, and emotional violence shaped her political and spiritual commitment to utilize love in response to oppression. She was an organizer against mountaintop removal mining and labor abuses with the WV Economic Justice Coalition and United Students Against Sweatshops.  Upon arriving in NYC she became the…

Jerry White

Jerry White has dedicated his life to building resilience in individuals and communities affected by violent conflict.  White lost his leg to a landmine explosion while hiking in Israel in 1984.  It is his core belief that, with the right tools, everyone can rise above trauma and give back to their communities.  His co-founding in 1995 of Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) led him to…

Khadija Moalla

With 20 years of experience in development (1991-2011), including 7 years in Senior Leadership positions in the UN, Dr. Khadija Moalla's repertoire includes extensive expertise in international law and Human Rights, gender equality and women empowerment, strengthening civil society organizations and networking. She did exceptional work in advocating the human rights of the marginalised and…