On 15 March, I joined the thousands of students gathering in front of the Danish parliament. Inspired by Swedish Greta, they want our politicians, our leaders, to take action, not to continue to talk. They are so right!...
More than 40 years ago, when I first visited Peru to collect information for my thesis, Hugo Blanco was one of the personalities I was most interested in. A peasant organizer and a rebel. Now, when he is 84 years old, he tells his fascinating story to a Danish audience....
I dag - den 24. januar 2019 - udkommer "Man bliver aldrig den sammen", som er en samling fortællinger og samtaler om Mellemfolkeligt Samvirkes historie gennem 75 år....
The Economist Democracy Index for 2018 shows that political participation has increased, and this is mostly thanks to the increased participation of women in many countries around the world. At least som light in darkness!...
A new report called FRIENDSHIP, PARTNERSHIP, OWNERSHIP offers a detailed overview of the many activities that have taken place during four years of cooperation between the Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy and political parties in Nepal....
The 2018 edition of "The Indigenous World", published by the Copenhagen-based IWGIA is a 640 page publication of high quality information of the situation of indigenous people's around the world. Amazing!...
Starting in 2011, the small Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea has been the host of what we call the "People's Meeting". This is a place for politicians and citizens to meet face to face....
I visited Nepal in May of 2018, having been invited by some of the political parties to speak on the occasion of the 200 year birthday of Karl Marx, and to visit old friends in the political parties on the multiparty platform JOMPOPS....
In May 2018 I drove 3.500 km through Zimbabwe with my wife, visiting friends and partners that I used to work with in the early 90s, when Zimbabwewas a very different country....
During our time at our house "Furukollen" in the valley of Gudbrandsdalen during the sumer of 2017, I wrote a series of stories about the place. These are the photos used....