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/white power and privilege type space operating domination system type approaches. Our work 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
Our Trustees
Graham Woods
Chair of Trustees
Visioneering and Strategic Development |
Paul Bazely
Secretary
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Kevin Gough
Treasurer
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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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