I’m sitting on a plane on the way back to Northern Ireland after 4 days in South Korea at a conference on Peace, Reconciliation and Global Citizenship Education. In times of a climate emergency, it is hard to justify such a trip and I still have ethical dilemmas going on in my head, but have committed to some tree planting on return to the green isle. However, I feel that the need for building alliances is more important now than ever as we recognise the power of the collective and of connecting movements across the globe.

“The Global Citizenship Orchestra Project” was proposed by the “Larnaka Cultural Foundation for Children and Youth” and was achieved with the collaboration of “Sistema Cyprus”, a social-music organ

For two weeks, I was involved in the UN High Level Political Forum in New York as part of the Bridge 47 delegation, where the SDG 4 on inclusive, quality education, was reviewed.

A few months ago, I encountered an interesting quote from Barack Obama.

Back in February, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (

For the next 10 days, about 3,000 people are attending the UN’s High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) to review our global, collective effort to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).