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Our Common HomeMaltese NGOs: Stories of hope with a focus of community building aspect.

Miriam Theuma
05/10/2022
3 minute read

In an ideal world, no NGOs will be necessary, as the people in authority should be conscious of what is necessary for better living, and should work for what is right without the need to be pushed into doing so. Until this happens, NGOs will have to struggle through, with the hope that things get better.

Conversations

Rethink Team
15/05/2023
1 minute read

Rethink Culture’s Conversations is a space for respectful dialogue on complex issues shaping Maltese culture. Based on Pope…

Politics, Economics & TechThe economy – a tool for sustainable development?

Daniel Darmanin
05/01/2023
4 minute read

The current model of development has caused environmental problems, social inequality, and economic instability. It is suggested that a new, more sustainable and inclusive model of development should be adopted which takes into account the needs of the poor and the environment.

Church in SocietyRethinking Cultural Heritage

Jean Claude Attard
01/12/2022
2 minute read

When discussing cultural heritage, the emphasis should not be on the burden of preservation as such, but on the opportunity to renew, to rethink one’s vocation and to recompose it in the current socio-cultural context and to dream for a better future.

Our Common HomeThe Land always Remembers

Mario Gerada
03/11/2022
3 minute read

In Christianity we learn that a central expression of faith is remembrance. As Pope Francis told us in his visit to Malta this year, we need to remember how to be kind, also to our land.

Ep.02 – Displacement

Rethink Team
03/11/2022
1 minute read

Listen to our discussion with Dr Daniela Debono, lecturer in anthropology of migration at the University of Malta as we discuss displacement, the need to belong, and the reality of living during a tense age of both globalization and borders.

Politics, Economics & TechThe egalitarian role of welfare state policies (compulsory education, free health care, state pensions) in Europe (social policy/history)

Anne Marie Thake
05/10/2022
4 minute read

Are we being complacent and taking the welfare state for granted? Is there a general sense of entitlement that could potentially endanger the welfare state?

Our Common HomeOut of place: experiences of belonging in Malta

Peter Farrugia
05/10/2022
2 minute read

Any open attitude towards dialogue cannot ignore the implications of “migration as crisis”, which has been a generic phrase in media, political and academic discourses since the early 2010s. We are still, in many ways, under its shadow.

Our Common HomeMulticultural Malta – a prophesized threat or historical feature?

Matthias Ebejer
05/10/2022
4 minute read

The following is a reflection on history, even though it will invariably discuss events and implications that are more recent. The reason for this is that it deals with concepts of memory, or rather the lack of it, in the shaping of a perceived identity.