Women Empowerment and Gender Equality is still a distant dream for women in many parts of the world. During a webinar on Interreligious Dialogue and Gender Equality, organized by Kenu Agarwal, speakers from different communities and religions expressed their concerns over the discriminatory attitude of society towards many women and girls. 

Understanding is a matter of perspective. While immersed in a socio-economic system that dominates all parts of our lives, imagining that anything else could replace it seems hard to do. Yet history has shown that nothing lasts forever and even the most powerful of empires rise, peak and eventually shift into decline.

Dear Nathalie,

Thank you for participating in CMM’s Performance-Based Evaluation process! As you know, you received a score of 94, making you a Level 6 mediator in the Inclusive model. As a Level 6 mediator, you showed mastery of all of the mediation skills taught in the Inclusive model. Evaluators agree that you should consider becoming a mentor or evaluator. 

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The world has shifted. States that used to symbolize the holders of world order have now become the spoils of war. 

Inter-state conflicts are nearly extinct since the last World War and are instead being replaced by unconventional wars, expanding into cyberspace [1]. The influence of nation-states is retreating everywhere and being replaced by a new class of actors wielding political power, such as multi-national corporations, super-warlords and billionaires.

“How does the world we create become compatible with the world that created us? ” Tamera

2020 exposed the cruelty of a system that enables state sanctioned violence against black and brown lives and unleashed a health crisis that foretells the breakdown of our natural environment. This double pandemic forced us to question our participation in our current socio-economic system and decide whether reform is still possible. CIT opted to shift our focus towards discovering alternatives.