G-Lab-2b – Articles and Perspectives

Original feature article published on July 31, 2026, in CTXT magazine. “Are you with Frontex?” It was one of the first questions I was asked after landing on the island. At the time, it surprised me; only later did I begin to understand why someone might mistake me for one of its officers. The explanation came from Agostino, an ambitious…

Published on 13 July 2026 in Núvol magazine. At the beginning of the year, during an expedition through West Africa, I visited a secondary school in Bissorã, Guinea-Bissau. Its director, Djoncon Camara, welcomed me with an impressively calm presence. He had worked with Mother Teresa in the 1990s and spoke of education as something that is not only conceived in…

A historical and interdisciplinary reading of contemporary selfishness.

Article written by Ipinoluwa Oluwafowokanmi  “Peace education is not abstract, it is transformational.”  I realized this fact the day we went to a school for our Non-violence Education Campaign. A group of teenagers in the classroom in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria responded to the peace education campaign not with jesting or uninterested attitudes, but with reflection on past behaviours. The…

“Borders, I've never seen them, but I've heard they exist in some people's minds.” This phrase appears around a photograph of my 6-year-old daughter Alba, with her hands open, standing in front of the remains of the Berlin Wall, hanging in my office. It is a simple image, taken on a magical night in Berlin, but one that is full…

Many voices rightly insist on the importance of teaching people to distinguish between reliable sources, recognize the falsity of certain news items, and understand how the media works. And yes, all of that is important. But it is also insufficient. The reality is that, in an environment saturated with misinformation, conspiracy theories, and digitized opinion bubbles, this response seems sensible.…

When we walk through the streets of our cities and towns today, we are sometimes overcome by a feeling, a silent question, sometimes a little bit resigned: Is it still possible to change anything? Can we, as a society, truly transform ourselves, or are we now just "players"  in a system that perpetuates itself? The idea that society can be…

In our series of dialogues "Thinking without Banisters", we take a human and emotional perspective on the multiple crises that mark our present: from rapid ecological deterioration and growing social fragmentation to complex phenomena such as media manipulation and political polarization. We often perceive these circumstances as overwhelming, generating a widespread feeling of powerlessness in the face of a reality…

Change is like the wind, it is not always directly visible, we cannot touch it or hold it in our hands. But we feel it. We hear it. We sense it through its effects and results. Sometimes our university classes, we begin asking our students: How do you perceive change in life? Someone always responds with a simple image: “Like…

Translated from the spanish original written by Leonard Glab Frontera We don't talk enough about peace. Peace is not something that can be achieved or win. It is something that we simply must not lose. Perhaps because we believe it is guaranteed, or because it is invisible. Unfortunately, war has images, noises, screams, numbers, uniforms, heroes and graves. Peace, on…