DAY 7: Understanding conflicts from within: The case of the Armenian Genocide

Recently I came across the Armenian-Turkish historical emotional relationship and, as with any emotionally charged relationship, I am learning that this one is also made of ups and downs, peaceful times of neighborhood followed by fights among enemies, moments of deception and distrust until eventually...

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DAY 6: Are We Ever Ready? My experience at the negotiations table in the Model United Nations programme

When I received the invite to join the  Model United Nations at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office I experienced both curiosity and fear. On one hand I wanted to get involved in such an interactive learning experience to expand myself, but on the other hand there was this thought bugging me...

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DAY 5: Politics of Evil

Politics and evil seem to go hand in hand. If we look at the manifested consequences of politics in today's world, we find wars, killings, death of civilians and increased distrust among people and countries; if we look at the word Evil, we see Live spelled backward. So in essence, both politics...

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DAY 4: AID and the belief that we are doing the right thing

"I came to the understanding that most of those men believed they were doing the right thing" (John Perkin, 2004) Over the past couple of weeks I have been reading John Perkin's book Confessions of an Economic Hitman and I am surprise to find a brutal transparency about the manoeuvrs of the system...

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DAY 3: Understanding the System as Ourselves (and The Cancer of World Politics)

In this Journey to Life, one thing that I am becoming more and more aware of is the relationships that exist between all the different systems that constitute the world system as a whole. By systems, these are the interrelations, the networks, the platforms, the way things work based on what...

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DAY 2: The diplomatic career is not something out of this world

Where does this resistance to study diplomacy come from? I realise that I have been using the excuse and justification that I am tired from my daily job and thus it is legitimate to procrastinate my study, thinking that I will do it tomorrow  when I am not "tired". However, by being aware...

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DAY 1: My Relationship with Diplomacy

Being aware of how millions of dead in the world are/had been also the consequence of failures in diplomacy, I notice the fear of failure manifested within me, as if this career is a big mission to take on. In this, I also see how I have been trying to avoid to understand my Responsibility in this world...

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