Father Giuseppe “Bepi” Berton, an Italian Christian priest who has been living in Sierra Leone for over 40 years, is the founder of Family Homes Movement (FHM), a social Movement aiming to take care and educate children in particular need which, during the civil war, took care of about 3000 children soldiers.
In this interview he claims about the prejudices, stiffening the perception of the difference between “us” and “the others”, which are quite common even with NGOs and experts of Development, and gives his raccomandations in order to overcome them.
Read here his raccomandations, or watch the video of the interview (in Italian language)
People from different cultures took part at an initiative, arranged by the Councillorship for gender equality of the Municipality of Prato (Ms. Rita Pieri) with the contribution of University of Florence (Prof. Anja Baukloh, Conflict mediation tecniques), which was held in Prato on January 29th 2011. The Open Space Technology (OST) was on “how to improve the gender equality in the city of Prato, through the implementation of the European charter on gender equality on local level”. In spite most citizens not having significant experience of this new methodology of discussing, they contributed very actively, with passions, strong motivation and by providing new ideas on how to improve the gender equality in the town
Below is the video of the OST in Prato (in Italian language)
Part 1 – The european charter for gender equality and the Action plan of Prato
Part 2 – Open Space Technology: methodology and proposals suggested by the citizens
Part 3 – Role of men in promoting gender equality and overall impressions
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