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  • The Silent Diplomat

    The Silent Diplomat

    “I have no power at all. The only thing I can do is talk, bring ideas in, smile at people, be kind, be empathic, and prove that empathy is possible. Yeah, that’s all I can do. But that works. That has a big effect—a much bigger effect.” These are the words of Wuppertal-based silent diplomat Read more

  • Özel: “At Best a Dissenter Within Russian Power Structure”

    Özel: “At Best a Dissenter Within Russian Power Structure”

    Whenever she was faced with a choice between work and visiting her parents, who lived in the north-west of the country, she decided on work. She had been healing children for two years with her highly competent colleagues at the largest children’s hospital in the country’s capital. She was also a social person; she had Read more

  • Through their tales, they resist 3

    Through their tales, they resist 3

    Alina Brusniak, 26-year-old Hello, I am Alina, and I came to Germany in March of 2022. It was definitely a challenging journey. But my story did not start on the evacuation train. My world completely changed when I was sleeping in bed on February 24. The loud explosion woke me up. At the same time, Read more

  • Through their tales, they resist 2- Being a mother under war conditions

    Through their tales, they resist 2- Being a mother under war conditions

    A Ukrainian mother of two children When the war started in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, we were all shocked. Perhaps the Ukrainian authorities knew about the date of its start, but ordinary people were not informed until the end. There were not even conversations about the start of the war in society, and in Read more

  • Through their tales, they resist

    Through their tales, they resist

    A cold and dreary Bretten evening in Germany. The weather gets darker as it starts to rain. The YouTube song, starting with a side flute, pierces the evening silence. Grup Yorum’s song “Bir Görüş Kabininde” tells the dialogue between a girl who is on a death fast and her mother. Somewhat later, I recall that Read more

  • There are also cannibals in this army

    There are also cannibals in this army

    He stabbed his initial victim 50 times, proceeded to sever their ears, dismembered the flesh, and thereafter ate it. He ate the soft tissue of another person he murdered. Ultimately, he took the life of a person whom he believed to be abusing his nephew, but in reality, was completely blameless. The individual depicted in Read more