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"Oi, Feizi
Eu sou meio perdida nessa plataforma e, por incrível que pareça, só hoje vi sua mensagem para mim. Fiquei super feliz com as boas-vindas, ainda que só as tenha visto tanto tempo depois. Mas, como acredito que o…"
"I'll be in ATLANTA, GA, USA, on August 8th. I'll be available to meet new friends, visit a project or share of my experience!"
Abdullah MANSOOR ﻋﺒﺪﺍﷲ ﻣﻨﺼﻮﺭ left a comment for Feizi Milani, MD, PhD"Dear Dr. Feizi.
Salaam. Hope you are fine. I am a peace and human rights educator from Pakistan. I do believe, NO JUSTICE----NO PEACE.
Your and my views are same. Hope we can do better things for human…"
"Bill, thanks for adding me! Congratulations on your efforts! It will be a pleasure to work as partners with you!
Best wishes, Feizi
"
Andrew Benson Greene left a comment for Feizi Milani, MD, PhD"Hello Feizi,
Thanks for sharing such an inspiration poem. It is so moving. right now, I have put together a collection of my poems number 40 on the subject of war and peace, refugee life and early childhood in Sierra leone. The poems span a decade…"
Fernanda P. Amaral left a comment for Feizi Milani, MD, PhD"OI, Feizi, td bem?
Querido...que coincidência! Vou pra África daqui a alguns meses pra receber treinamento pra trabaçhar a questão da VAW e as ferramentas para trabalhar a questão entre os/as jovens de SP.…"
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- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- Medical Doctor specialized in Adolescent Medicine. PhD in Public Health. International lecturer. Ashoka Fellow. Kellogg International Leadership Program Fellow. Awarded with the "World Citizenship Award" in 1999.
Broad experience in adolescents’ health and education, youth participation, human capital development, strategic and operational planning, social program management and implementation, educational projects, community mobilization and research.
Experiences include governmental, civil society and private organizations, ranging from municipalities and grassroots NGOs, through the national level (Ministério da Saúde, Fundação Odebrecht, Associação Brasileira de Magistrados da Infância e da Juventude, INPAZ – Instituto Nacional de Educação para a Paz e os Direitos Humanos), up to the international arena (Ashoka, Kellogg Foundation, Plan International, Bahá’í Community). Worked as a social entrepreneur, public servant, consultant, board member, professor, researcher, and group facilitator in very diverse contexts, such as high-needs areas in large urban centers, indigenous communities, and public and private schools.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- Brazil, Latin America. But I have visited organizations for experience exchange in more than 20 countries, in 5 continents.
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- Brazil
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Founder of INPAZ - National Institute for Peace and Human Rights Education. Professor of the Federal University of the Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), located in Santo Antonio de Jesus, state of Bahia.
- How many years professional experience do you have ?
- 15+
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://www.feizimilani.blogspot.com
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Development, Education, Facilitation, Health, Human Rights, Psychosocial, Social Entreprenuership
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Capacity Building, Program Design, Program Implemenation, Research, Training
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Violence prevention
School violence
Violence caused by or suffered by adolescents
Culture of peace
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- • Tá combinado: Construindo um pacto de convivência na escola (It’s a deal: Constructing an Accord for Peaceful Relations in School). Author. 2nd edition, 2005.
• Living in poverty: Developmental poetics of cultural realities (Information Age Publishing – U.S.A., 2009). Co-author.
• Compresiones sobre ciudadanía, published by the Ministry of Education of Colombia. Co-author. 2005.
• Violência faz mal à saúde, published by the Ministry of Health of Brazil. Co-author. 2004.
• Cultura de paz: Estratégias, mapas e bússolas. Editor and co-author. 2003.
• Assessing Brazil’s Culture of Peace. In: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, vol. 10, nº 2, 2004, pp. 161-174, American Psychological Association – first author.
• Globalizar a paz. Article published by 13 newspapers in different states of Brazil. Author. 2001.
IF YOU WISH A COPY OF THE PUBLISHED ARTICLES, FEEL FREE TO ASK ME.
My humble homage to Africa and to all Africans
PRODIGAL SON
Feizi M. Milani
Mother Africa,
I humbly come to meet you
yearning, eager, thirsty...
is there still room for me in your lap?
Mother Africa,
I grew up far from your caring eyes,
in other gardens have I played
I have fallen asleep at the whispering of other stories
and therefore
little do I know of you
and little do you know of me...
Will you still have the patience to teach me?
Mother Africa,
throughout the world I searched for my path,
through far-off lands I journeyed,
other peoples, cultures and languages I came to know,
only to discover
that they were also born in your cradle
and are your children
and are my brothers and sisters...
will you still welcome me back home?
Mother Africa,
maybe you will not remember me
perhaps you will look at me and fail to recognize me,
it may well be that I look very different from your other offspring living with you,
but
my roots come from your sacred womb,
my heart beats in the same rhythm as your drums,
my nights were swung in your loving cradle
and my days, filled with your joyous presence,
my thirst was quenched with your gracious wellsprings,
and my hunger, allayed by your generosity,
my toddling began before you
and my first tears were shed on your soil...
Mother Africa,
I know I have been distant
when you needed me most,
I have pretended to be deaf
when you let out your wails,
I have alienated myself
when confusion prevailed at your home,
my compromising attitude
has prevented me from being side by side with my siblings...
will you still welcome me with your embrace?
Mother Africa,
one of your prodigal sons
is back...
Please,
behold him with your compassionate and understanding eyes,
lend out your warm and firm hand to him,
embrace him with your soft and comforting hug,
swing him in your cozy lap
and... forgive him,
with your loving and motherly heart...
Mother Africa,
your forgiveness I beseech
for myself
and for those among your other children who,
not having inherited your virtues,
oblivious of your being their true homeland,
deluded by their childish ignorance,
and inflamed by their adolescent arrogance,
have come back home,
not to thank you and glorify you,
but to disrespect and trample you,
hurt your children,
steal your riches,
destroy your gardens,
exploit your generosity...
Mother Africa,
forgive me.
Mother Africa,
forgive us all.
(I wrote this poem while visiting Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, back in 1999)
Feizi M. Milani
Mother Africa,
I humbly come to meet you
yearning, eager, thirsty...
is there still room for me in your lap?
Mother Africa,
I grew up far from your caring eyes,
in other gardens have I played
I have fallen asleep at the whispering of other stories
and therefore
little do I know of you
and little do you know of me...
Will you still have the patience to teach me?
Mother Africa,
throughout the world I searched for my path,
through far-off lands I journeyed,
other peoples, cultures and languages I came to know,
only to discover
that they were also born in your cradle
and are your children
and are my brothers and sisters...
will you still welcome me back home?
Mother Africa,
maybe you will not remember me
perhaps you will look at me and fail to recognize me,
it may well be that I look very different from your other offspring living with you,
but
my roots come from your sacred womb,
my heart beats in the same rhythm as your drums,
my nights were swung in your loving cradle
and my days, filled with your joyous presence,
my thirst was quenched with your gracious wellsprings,
and my hunger, allayed by your generosity,
my toddling began before you
and my first tears were shed on your soil...
Mother Africa,
I know I have been distant
when you needed me most,
I have pretended to be deaf
when you let out your wails,
I have alienated myself
when confusion prevailed at your home,
my compromising attitude
has prevented me from being side by side with my siblings...
will you still welcome me with your embrace?
Mother Africa,
one of your prodigal sons
is back...
Please,
behold him with your compassionate and understanding eyes,
lend out your warm and firm hand to him,
embrace him with your soft and comforting hug,
swing him in your cozy lap
and... forgive him,
with your loving and motherly heart...
Mother Africa,
your forgiveness I beseech
for myself
and for those among your other children who,
not having inherited your virtues,
oblivious of your being their true homeland,
deluded by their childish ignorance,
and inflamed by their adolescent arrogance,
have come back home,
not to thank you and glorify you,
but to disrespect and trample you,
hurt your children,
steal your riches,
destroy your gardens,
exploit your generosity...
Mother Africa,
forgive me.
Mother Africa,
forgive us all.
(I wrote this poem while visiting Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, back in 1999)
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Comment Wall (15 comments)
- At 7:37am on October 11, 2011,
Graciela Selaimen said…
Oi, Feizi
Eu sou meio perdida nessa plataforma e, por incrível que pareça, só hoje vi sua mensagem para mim. Fiquei super feliz com as boas-vindas, ainda que só as tenha visto tanto tempo depois. Mas, como acredito que o tempo está sempre a nosso favor, sei que nosso contato se dá na hora certa :)
Acabei de chegar de Nairobi e ler seu poema fez mais sentido agora do que em qualquer outro momento. Estou segura que temos muito a trocar/compartilhar. Vamos manter o contato!!
Abraço fraterno,
Graciela
- At 6:33pm on July 7, 2011, Abdullah MANSOOR ﻋﺒﺪﺍﷲ ﻣﻨﺼﻮﺭ said…
Dear Dr. Feizi.
Salaam. Hope you are fine. I am a peace and human rights educator from Pakistan. I do believe, NO JUSTICE----NO PEACE.
Your and my views are same. Hope we can do better things for human kinds.
Thanks
Mansoor
- At 8:01am on May 9, 2010, Andrew Benson Greene said…
- Hello Feizi,
Thanks for sharing such an inspiration poem. It is so moving. right now, I have put together a collection of my poems number 40 on the subject of war and peace, refugee life and early childhood in Sierra leone. The poems span a decade of my writing them. I am currently looking for possible publisher as well as some joint publication. will send you samples soon
warm wishes, Andrew
- At 6:15pm on April 25, 2010, Fernanda P. Amaral said…
- OI, Feizi, td bem?
Querido...que coincidência! Vou pra África daqui a alguns meses pra receber treinamento pra trabaçhar a questão da VAW e as ferramentas para trabalhar a questão entre os/as jovens de SP. Inicialmente eu ia usar apenas o recurso artistico, mas como sabemos que futebol é a vitrine de nossos jovens e que há muita violência contra as mulheres por causa do futebol (todas as ações geradas por um esporte ainda tido como machista e violento), acho que podemos ampliar e trabalhar esta questão. Vou pedir conselhos a vc!
Bjos e abraços, amigo!
Fer
ps: (vc tbém é amigo da Zonezi? ela é um amor e muito competente! Brilhante!)
- At 4:30pm on February 21, 2010,
zoneziwoh said… - Hello Feizi! I just read your profile status and I must say, that is an excellent idea.
Indeed, mainstream GBV principally VAW in through footballs.
courage!
well! i wish most of our medical centers could emulate it and start mainstreaming GBV into their medical programms, bc to b honest some medics scare their female patient a lot
- At 6:51pm on February 15, 2010,
Sohail Mahmood said… - hello feizi
how are u doing?
nice meeting u here
- At 6:34pm on January 12, 2010, zoneziwoh said…
- Good day Dr.
Happy New year 2010.
hoping all goes well, as we overcome all our challenges this year; permit me drop by to throw you my greetings.
I am proud to know that you have such a deep affection towards our mother continent - Africa. already, you can testify, i need not preach much.
Hoping, if God permits, i will be most glad seeing / welcoming you to my fatherland - Cameroon.
stay blessed
zoneziwoh
- At 2:17pm on January 5, 2010,
BERTHE BOGNINI said… - thanks for all!
I will be very happy to stay in touch with you.
- At 11:25pm on January 4, 2010,
Koffi Kouassi Aristide said… - Hi Mr,
I said that I was preparing my thesis on "Violence against children in learning professional" and I'm at the end of my first year. I would like to benefit from your advice and guidance in writing my thesis. Your book: • Violência faz trouble saúde, published by the Ministry of Health of Brazil. Co-author. 2004 interested a priori. Can I possibly get a copy?
Thank you and I hope to keep in touch with you!
- At 8:39pm on January 4, 2010,
Cara J. Sodos said… - Thank you Mr. Milani for your request for friendship on this site. I am at Georgetown with the creator of this network, Craig Zelizer and helping his sustain his work here with funding support when opportunities arise and my assistance is needed. I wish you the best in your very noble and important work with parent support in Brazil.
Feliz Ano Novo, Cara
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