Blogs

Larisa LARA-GUERRERO
INTIMAL: Relational listening that unknowingly prepared us for the COVID-19 pandemic
* This article has been written by Dr Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, Dr Ana-María Alarcón-Jiménez, and Dr Liliana Rodriguez, from the INTIMAL collective. The article includes the input of all members of the INTIMAL collective.
Background

Larisa LARA-GUERRERO
Innovative approaches in diaspora engagement: i-platform/i-dijaspora connecting the Bosnian and Herzegovinian diaspora in Switzerland
By Aida Ibričević
Picture: In 2018, i-platform organised the (H)AJMO! event series in Bern and Zurich, Switzerland. Source: i-dijaspora/i-platform.
‘i’ is a connector

Re-Balance
A tale of two rivers
My happiest childhood memories are set in a little village called Belua by the Jhinai river, in northern Bangladesh. Back in the 80s it had no electricity, which made it magical through my childlike eyes. We would arrive after a long trip from Dhaka using a bus, a rickshaw, then a boat, in the dark...my Uncle would call out to us across the river as we approached the village shores, and the…