In this episode, our host Raaval Singh Bains is joined by Chernor Bah and Gunjan Veda, two experts and activists whose work is rooted in the Global South. They highlight the problems with common attitudes in our sector, and vital work needed to decolonise our minds. They emphasise the ways local activists and communities can reclaim power and the ways Global North power-holders must shift their thinking.



Shownotes:

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Download the transcript: https://www.peacedirect.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PD-TPWP-Ep2-Mindsets-transcript.pdf



Speaker biographies:

Gunjan Veda: Gunjan’s the Executive Director of the Movement for Community-Led Development, or MCLD. It’s a network that works to shift power so that low-income communities can achieve their own visions and goals.  



Chernor Bah: Chernor recently became the Minister of Information and Civic Education in Sierra Leone. He’s also the Co-founder of Purposeful, a feminist hub for girls’ activism, rooted in Africa and working all around the world. Purposeful’s mission is to ensure that girl activists and their allies have access to the resources, networks, and platforms they need to power their activism and remake the world for themselves.



Raaval Singh Bains: As Research Officer at Peace Direct, Raaval is responsible for supporting Peace Direct’s research work on Decolonising the System. He facilitates online Platform4Dialogue discussions, conducts qualitative data analysis and drafts research reports. His work currently focuses on the “Decolonising Peacebuilding Practice” research project as well as supporting on the “Local Voices for Peace” and USAID funded “Stopping As Success” projects. Raaval has previously worked on research projects that advocate for the decolonisation of secondary school education in the UK.