Navigating Social Justice: Why Strategic Foresight is Important

Note: This article first came out of the United Edge blog. See the original post here.

Anticipating and planning for the future is not a luxury in the dynamic and complex world of social justice. It’s a necessary instrument for impactful advocacy that happens through strategic foresight. Foresight is the process of creating visions of the future and developing strategies that could help to achieve those future visions.

Can veganism help propel governments forward?

This is a late post I am writing about one of my favorite things that happened in October. I participated in the Philippine Society of Public Administrators (PSPA) International Virtual Conference where I wore two hats, as a presenter on veganism, and as a facilitator in the foresight game Dreams and Disruptions, which our team at the Center for Engaged Foresight developed.

10-10-2020

Wow, what a day! My last update on the About Me page was almost eight months ago, my life was so different then. I guess it’s the same for everyone, in different ways. On February 20, 2020, I was just out of my Cambodia job, COVID-19 was only starting to make noise, and WHO would take another month to announce it as a pandemic. Personally and professionally, I was at a crossroads, wanting to stay in Cambodia and continue working there but pressured on many ends. Nothing seemed to work.