Welcome to episode 12 of season one of Resilient Conversations, a podcast by PartnersGlobal that explores different facets of civic space resiliency. In this podcast, PartnersGlobal co-executive director, Roselie Vasquez-Yetter speaks with cellist, Tanya Anisimova, in the fourth in a series of vignettes on the artist collective who collaborated with PartnersGlobal and the International Human Rights Arts Festival. Cellist, composer, arranger Tanya Anisimova is a unique artist whose performance...

Welcome to episode 11 of season one of Resilient Conversations, a podcast by PartnersGlobal that explores different facets of civic space resiliency. In this podcast, PartnersGlobal co-executive director, Kyra Buchko speaks with Shedrick Pelt, a photographer, designer, and creative director committed to culture and community. Shedrick Pelt is a D.C. creative primarily focused on photojournalism and portrait, music, and commercial photography. Shedrick's work has covered local and nati...

Welcome to episode 10 of season one of Resilient Conversations, a podcast by PartnersGlobal that explores different facets of civic space resiliency. In this podcast, PartnersGlobal co-executive director, Roselie Vasquez-Yetter talks with Erin McCarthy, Senior Civil Society Advisor for U.S. Agency for International Development’s Europe and Eurasia Bureau, based in Washington, DC. Erin joins Resilient Conversations to discuss resilient funding practices at USAID. Their discussion...

Welcome to episode nine of season one of Resilient Conversations, a podcast by PartnersGlobal that explores different facets of civic space resiliency. In this podcast, PartnersGlobal co-executive director, Roselie Vasquez-Yetter speaks with Anne Labovitz, a visual artist, author and activist from St. Paul Minnesota, who creates work about how political, social, and cultural platforms can be turned into personal acts of care. Anne Labovitz is Artist Founder and Producer at 122 Conversations...

Welcome to episode eight of season one of Resilient Conversations, a podcast by PartnersGlobal that explores different facets of civic space resiliency. In this podcast, PartnersGlobal co-executive director, Roselie Vasquez-Yetter talks with Tom Block - playwright, author, and visual artist who has spent three decades using art to explore the intersection of mysticism and society. Tom is the Founding Producer of New York City’s International Human Rights Art Festival (2017-present), produce...

Welcome to Resilient Conversations, a podcast by PartnersGlobal that explores different facets of civic space resiliency. If you're new to this podcast, here's a recap of our first six episodes led by podcast producer, Aly Lyons. PartnersGlobal is a nonprofit based in Washington, DC that advances resilient civic space throughout the world by focusing on authentic partnership, locally-led solutions, inclusive processes, and conflict sensitivity to bring about more peaceful, secure, just, and ...

Welcome to episode six of season one of Resilient Conversations, a podcast by PartnersGlobal that explores different facets of civic space resiliency. Today’s conversation is about trauma sensitivity and what a trauma-informed framework for civil society resiliency looks like. I had the opportunity to chat with Alexa Brand - my colleague and manager of resiliency programs at PartnersGlobal. Alexa is an expert on the topic of trauma-informed care and civic space issues. Throughout her career...

Today’s episode features a thought provoking conversation between Deborah Mancini Griffoli - the Director of the Africa Program at PartnersGlobal - and Odi Lagi - Program Director at the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI) in Nigeria. NULAI is a network of clinical programs promoting access to justice, legal aid and public interest lawyering. Their conversation explores several topics ranging from legal hurdles and efforts by civil society to improve the situation for pretria...

Welcome to episode four of season one of Resilient Conversations, a podcast by PartnersGlobal that explores different facets of individual, organizational, sectoral, and systemic resiliency as it relates to civil society. Today’s episode features my colleague Jeffsky Poincy, a Program Manager at PartnersGlobal. We talked about Partners’ collaborative approach to fighting systemic corruption, the impact of legitimacy on civil society’s ability to fight corruption, and how corruption impacts ci...

PartnersGlobal is the founding member of a 35 year old civil society network comprised of peacebuilding organizations from around the world called The Partners Network who specialize in organizational strengthening processes. But sometimes even those who do, need external support. This is where the PeaceNexus Foundation comes in. Almost two years ago, the PeaceNexus Foundation supported our network through an organizational strengthening process that made us confront some difficult ques...

We live in an increasingly dynamic world that is experiencing a range of changes to civic space - the ability of people to exercise their right to free speech, expression, and assembly. These changes vary from country to country, but collectively are impacting civil society's ability to serve their communities and operate freely without fear of repercussions. In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with Roselie Vasquez Yetter, Co-Executive Director of PartnersGlobal and primary ...

Co-Executive Director of PartnersGlobal Kyra Buchko talks to Zuza Fialova of Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia – one of our fellow Partners Network members – about the impact of the Ukrainian crisis in Slovakia and throughout the region. The open and reflective conversation delves into topics ranging from Slovakia's historical policies accepting refugees to how PDCS is working internally within Slovakia to maintain space for dialogue on difficult topics related to the crisis and xenopho...