Dispelling the White Knight Complex: Melbourne event on volunteering
Is international volunteering a genuine asset to development? Or just a way to fulfil our own desires to save the world? Is there a ‘right way’ to run a volunteer program? In an event on Thursday 19...
View ArticleFortnightly links: understanding ISIS, democratic leadership, Australian...
The Paris terrorist attacks and escalating calls for military intervention in Syria have further complicated the question of how to address the European refugee crisis. On the Crooked Timber blog,...
View ArticleInterested in feminism and development in Papua New Guinea? Be prepared for a...
Inez Baranay’s 1994 account of her experience as a volunteer in Papua New Guinea was re-released in 2014 by Local Time Publishing. Rascal Rain is a difficult book to categorise, and at times a...
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Bill Armstrong: volunteering with attitude
For generations of young Australians with a passion for social justice, volunteering in developing or indigenous communities has been a rite of passage. Bill Armstrong has been deeply involved in this...
View ArticleThe awkwardness of moral saints
When I was studying at the London School of Economics, I got to know Jean Drèze. He was the son of Jacques Drèze, the famous Belgian economist. Jean was also an economist, a post-doc, clearly very...
View ArticleAustralian Doctors International seek volunteer medical staff for health patrols
Australian Doctors International (ADI) is a not-for-profit, NGO partnering with Provincial governments and church providers to provide medical and health services to individuals living in rural and...
View ArticlePossibilities for transformation of the Tai health system in Shan State, Myanmar
Myanmar has endured over sixty years of conflict between the state and various non-state armed ethnic groups throughout the country. During this time the state has failed to provide healthcare...
View ArticleThe fluency of fitting in
There’s a scene in a lot of movies where the hero, having fumbled her way along an impenetrable wall, suddenly touches the block with the hidden spring, and the mass of masonry swiftly pivots, leaving...
View ArticleFortnightly links: voluntourism, a foreign aid tsar, why people in China give...
Tina Rosenberg writes - brilliantly - for The Guardian on the business of voluntourism, with great anecdotal evidence as well as a clear explanation of the issues. There's a 12-point consensus on...
View ArticleVolunteers in the aid program: a history
Peter Britton’s Working for the world: the evolution of Australian Volunteers International tracks the history of the Australian international volunteer program from its humble origins in the Volunteer...
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