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I am delighted to welcome as new Senior Associates Prof. William Inboden, an expert on US foreign policy, who heads the Carter Center at the University of Texas, Austin), Prof. Remco Breuker, an eminent Koreanist at Leiden University, and Randy Tift, an old friend with extensive international and development experience, who was until recently a senior […]
Continue ReadingJuggling the multiple demands of managing Oxford House can be taxing! Much has happened in the last three months, as I have been reporting on my personal Linkedin page. Remembering to transfer that ‘news’ to the OH website has not always been easy! Anyway, here goes to bring you up to speed, with a few […]
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who died on 7 November, was a towering figure in my life, as he was in so many lives inside and outside the Jewish community. I first encountered him in the 1960s, when he was barely 20. My father had heard him speak – I think during or soon after the […]
Continue ReadingAfter a slight late-summer and early-autumn hiatus (partly seasonal and partly caused by the volume of other work) Oxford House ‘news’ now comes back on stream, with apologies for the delay. From the last few days: Rahil Patel and I have now completed and circulated a new (17pp.) paper on India: ‘Religious relations’: Modi, the Hindu Rashtra […]
Continue ReadingA ‘Memorandum of Cooperation’ with the Municipality of Tirana to develop a new golf programme in Albania. At present there are no golf courses in the country. Part of our work is to ensure the project is culturally sensitive and ethically robust. We have a world class team working on this. Conversations with a creative water […]
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