At the Amani Institute, we are exploring new ways of teaching future leaders of social change, and one of these is what we can learn from nature as the ultimate designer. Our Bio-Empathy course integrates the study of innovation from Biomimicry with the exploration of leadership and self-development of outdoors-based learning programs. Keep reading to learn more about what we mean. If you are based in…

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We're excited to share an article by the fantastic folks at Fast Company about our recent study, "…

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This blog post was originally published on the iHub's blog and cross-posted onInnovation Africa.

About a month ago, McKinsey & Company, the world’s premier consulting firm …

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Cross-posted from The Amani Institute.

I am excited to have published an essay in the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog on the experience that I’ve been having through being one of the founding class at THNK: The Amsterdam School for Creative Leadership.

Do check out the essay here: it’s called …

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Cross-posted from The Amani Institute Blog

Last week, I guest-lectured on social entrepreneurship to a group of master’s students at a well-known university in the Washington, DC area. Towards the end, the conversation veered towards the idea behind what we’re doinghere at The Amani Institute. When I described a…

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Cross-posted from The Amani Institute Blog

Springtime in Washington DC is also career-planning time for the thousands of students in this college-and-government town. This is when universities scour the beltway’s networks to find people who hold jobs their students want to have, and invite them to provide been-there-done-that wisdom and share…

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The first thing Anya Kamenetz said when she took the stage at a talk at the Center for American Progress to promote her new book was: "The book is up online so feel free to surf to it on your phones and check it out".

When was the last time you had a professor or other speaker…

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Cross-posted from The Amani Institute blog. 

 

If you've been reading the news much in America this past year (or talking to me at all), you've likely heard about the current crisis in higher education. And the doomsayers are no light-weights. They include…

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On Ashoka Peace, we just published a blog post about a new study in the Journal of Peace Psychology that examines the way social entrepreneurs approach conflict resultion, in particular in contrast to more traditional approaches.

Read the post here, which will also take you to the study.

Ashoka Peace presents The State of Peacebuilding in 2010.

This two-part blog post discusses the evolution of the peacebuilding field, and points to encouraging new directions in which it is going and where it MUST go to become more effective.

Comments welcomed!

Ashoka Peace is proud to present a recently published article in the latest issue of http://beyondprofit.com that describes the rationale and goals and inspiration behind our work.



In this article, we discuss the stories of two classic social entrepreneurs - Jerry White and Neichute Duolo - who came up with new solutions for problems of violent conflict, and through those… Continue

Check out the answers - or rather, more questions - on the Ashoka Peace blog.

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is embarking on a concentrated effort to scale up the role of social entrepreneurship in the fields of peacebuilding and cultural tolerance. In our exploration of the state of the field and the contribution Ashoka can make, we identified a need for significantly more information and awareness about how innovation and entrepreneurship can help reduce violence around the world.



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