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Archive for March, 2009

On Citizenship Education — Call for Volunteers

30Mar09

As regular readers would know, we are conducting a residential Training of Trainers program (TOT) on Citizenship Education. We have a couple of places left in the program and we’d like to offer that to anyone who’s interested in volunteering with Beyond Borders on our citizenship education programs.
From about 2006, we have been conducting workshops, [...]

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Tags: Beyond Borders, Citizenship Education, Civic Education, Colombo, Peace Education, Sri Lanka, TOT, Training

We are Training Trainers

28Mar09

We are conducting a Training of Trainers programme for bright young people on the concepts of Active Global Citizenship, under our Citienship Education programme. The residential workshop will start on Friday (3rd of April) evening (after work), and run till Sunday (5th) evening somewhere in Colombo.
The TOT is aimed at young people, activists and youth [...]

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Tags: Activism, Citizenship Education, Colombo, OIYP, Oxfam, Sri Lanka, Training of Trainers Program

On Youth, Youth Policies and Conflict

13Mar09

K. Guruparan — a BB-ite, father of the Sri Lankan Youth Parliament and well-known youth activist, spoke at a regional youth conference on youth organized by International Alert, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Youth.
Below is a synopsis of the comments he made as reported on the Bottomline newspaper.
The disillusionment of the youth [...]

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Tags: Colombo, Conference, Conflict, Government, Policy, Sri Lanka, Youth Policy

Implementing Bilingual — Use the damn Telephone!

10Mar09

One of the most real complaints by Tamil-speaking civillians in Sri Lanka is that they cannot speak in their own language when communicating with government officials including policemen and security personnel.
Writing for his “Choices” column at LBO, Rohan Samarijiva offers a simple and a simply brilliant idea for implementing bilingual (hell, even trilingual) communication in [...]

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Tags: Bilungual, Colombo, Ethnic Conflict, Language, Sri Lanka

Lahore

07Mar09

Cartoon by Bottomline, uploaded by Pebotuwa
Dead men on pitches,
Bullet wounds for scores–
‘Is this the new cricket?’
The gentlemen groaned.
They stopped wearing chest guards,
And switched to bullet proof vests–
They stopped looking at the ball,
In order to drop down just in case–
‘They’ll all be bowled for a duck!’
The fans screamed in the stands–
But the players, didn’t give [...]

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Tags: Beyond Borders, Cricket, Lahore, Pakistan, Poetry, Sri Lanka, Terrorism

Mom Knows best

06Mar09

He tapped on her tummy, “mommy will you let me out?”
“Hush my son….” She said “wait a little bit more”
“Please mommy can you tell me what this is all about?”
“No my son, some things in this world you never need to know!”
Why mommy? Are you scared? What will happen to me?
Nine months you carried me [...]

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What we are singing for the Open Mic

05Mar09

Bloggers and Colombo creative-types are doing this Open Mic thing today. Some of us will be there. Here’s a glimpse of our contribution for the evening..

Kiddin.. but We will be there. You should too. More info about the whole thing is found on Indi’s blog.

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Tags: Youth, Sri Lanka, Beyond Borders, Politics, Activism, Poetry, Open Mic, Creativity

A Meeting of Youth Organizations and Activists

05Mar09

Beyond Borders and the Sri Lanka Youth Parliament is organizing a meeting of youth organizations/activists to be held on Sunday, the 8th of March from 2.30 – 4.30 pm.
The purpose of the meeting is as follows:

To meet and share experiences with the Nepali and Maldivian youth delegations who will be here in Colombo to attend a [...]