Shabir Baloch

Blogs

Top Blogs

To cherish diverse ideas, here’s our bank of selected or reshared blogs that can broaden your perspectives on marginalized communities. Dig into them and share more with us – we look forward to different narratives and stories!

Empowering Change: MSF Health & Humanity Summit

Source: Vidusshi Pathak, People Beyond Borders

Exploring the Transformative MSF South Asia Health & Humanity Summit

Author: Vidusshi Pathak, People Beyond Borders

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We Dare To Dream

Source: The New Arab

An inspiring tale of the Olympic Refugee Team’s resilience and hope.

Author: Hanna Flint

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Catalysing Inner Peace

Source: Elsa Cuissard, People Beyond Borders

Mapping inner peace and conflict channels to empower creativity

Author: Elsa Cuissard, People Beyond Borders

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Talking About 'Humanity' and Not 'Crisis'

Source: The New Humanitarian

Shaping society’s response to refugees through messaging

Author: Thomas Coombes

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Experiencing Visual Cultures

Source: Elsa Cuissard, People Beyond Borders

Translating the non-translatable with arts and visual cultures.

Author: Elsa Cuissard, People Beyond Borders

Designing Training Projects

Source: Elsa Cuissard, People Beyond Borders

Guided on practical tools to project development

Author: Elsa Cuissard, People Beyond Borders

Latest Blogs

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We encourage creative submissions dedicated to raising awareness on displacement, migration and humanitarian issues and themes across the world.

 

✓  Stories based on personal experiences, interviews or direct engagements with quotes by or with displaced people

✓  Analysis of policy, legal, social, economic, environmental or peacebuilding challenges in the humanitarian-displacement nexus

✓  Original concepts, powerful arguments and good quality writing with ethical citations. We are happy to republish or re-share your writing, with proper attribution of data and content.

 

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Please submit your 800-1500 words blog post via email in the following format, either as a word document, google document or directly in the email body.

 

✓ Concise title of your post mentioned in bold

✓ Two or three keywords to tag your article

✓ Clear introduction and conclusion, articulating your main points and a compelling argument to anchor the overall theme. Use multiple short paragraphs, simple sub-headings and avoid long sentences to engage the audience with your findings and nuances.

✓ Please ensure all your sources and citations are mentioned either via footnotes, hyperlinks or in APA/Chicago/MLA style.

✓ Our editorial team member will support with structural, language and content edits and send it back to you for your final review. Our main aim is to ensure quality, clarity, creativity and sensitivity especially for any stakeholders or interviewees involved.

✓  Reminder to submit your 100-words bio or CV and images with captions.

International communities, including field practitioners, researchers, policy makers, civil society members, target groups such as refugees and displaced people are our audience. We want to ensure that the content is engaging, rigorous, authentic and experiential to bring value to so many diverse readers.