Who we are.
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AboutUs
OE registered as a UK charity in 2017 because we wanted to share a different approach to conflict, peace, identity politics, justice and development, where relationship is key to transforming violent systems and beliefs. With many years experience in UK and international conflict transformation work, we found ourselves increasingly bound by the restrictions of traditional approaches to conflict, security, justice, rights, and development thinking taking place within colonised institutions. Our work is about bringing a systemic lens to what we are experiencing and is underpinned by concepts such as decade-thinking rather than project-thinking, interdependent needs, multiple social truths and empathy; concepts that don't always fit a traditional log-frame. |
As an organisation we are committed to individual and collective integration and embodiment of all that we learn and share with others. We do this through a conscious examining and revisiting of the implicit and explicit systems we are part of, and being open to and encouraging the receiving of all life as feedback. |
OurTeam and OurRoles
OpenEdge UK team:
Collaborators in Sri Lanka
OpenEdge is currently not working in Sri Lanka due to Covid and to the political tensions over the last few years.
This website currently represents OE UK which will soon be a separate organisation. Our plan into continue working in Sri Lanka at some point in the future and we want to name check colleagues in Sri Lanka here.
OpenEdge is currently not working in Sri Lanka due to Covid and to the political tensions over the last few years.
This website currently represents OE UK which will soon be a separate organisation. Our plan into continue working in Sri Lanka at some point in the future and we want to name check colleagues in Sri Lanka here.
Our SupportersFiguring out how to move from self sufficiency to interdependence is what so much of our work is about.
Thank goodness we are not alone! |
Our AdvisorsWe are grateful to be able to draw on the experience of specialists across the field of international peace-building, social justice and new economics, as we carve out new ways to engage with time old challenges together, so as not to reproduce divisions of the past.
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What happens if we shift from a guiding metaphor that we are providing professional services, to one that we are engaged in a vocation to nurture constructive social change? What happens to process design if we think of ourselves as artists [as well as] professional specialists with technical expertise? |
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Charitable Incorporated Organisation 1176903 registered in England and Wales
c/o UHY Hacker Young 168 Church Lane, Brighton, BN3 2DL |