Tuesday, 6 April marks the sixteenth anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide. On that fateful day in 1994, the almost 1 million victims had no real understanding what was about to befall them. Whilst the world ignored or failed to intervene — myself very much included — thousands of people were slaughtered with [...]

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Earlier this month, I ran out of ground coffee at home. Eager to not miss my morning cuppa, I remembered that my local Wawa makes a decent brew. Popping into the car, I secured a delicious 20oz. mug of the dark stuff within a few short minutes. (A bit of sugar and plenty of skim [...]

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The amazingly dedicated and hard-working people at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust have done a fantastic job putting together a very moving film about HMD2010. Please do take the time to watch it. It’s about 10 minutes long, but well worth the viewing. Whilst you’re here, go on and take a moment to light a [...]

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UPDATE: As of 08 April 2010, this book now has its own website, www.youalonemaylive.com, which along with my colleagues at lbdesign, I am helping to build. I am very excited to be able to share the news that a new book by the founder and former director of Survivors Fund is now available on Amazon.co.uk [...]

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As Holocaust Memorial Day draws closer, it becomes increasingly important for us to remember the horrors that humanity has belted out upon itself in recent history. Millions of people have been killed in genocides in the not-so-distant past … and the risk of future such mass-killings continues to be a significant risk in a number [...]

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Through my work with the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, I came to learn about a really interesting exhibition that will be showing (taking place is probably a better description) in Shotover Country Park, in Horspath, Oxfordshire, UK. The exhibiton, entitled The Woods, Breathing is a public art installation created as part of Holocaust Memorial Day [...]

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Earlier this year, I mentioned that a new book about the prosecution of domestic violence had been published by the Oxford University Press. I am now very excited to report that Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis, by Michelle Madden Dempsey, has been awarded 2nd prize in the 2009 Peter Birks Book Prize, offered by [...]

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Over the past several years, I have been fortunate to work with the good people at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. According to its own website, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) ‘exists so that we learn the lessons of the past to build a better future now’. The HMDT does a fantastic job raising [...]

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