Comhlámh has over 45 years’ experience of solidarity-based engagement that addresses the most pressing issues of our time. We support people and organisations to mobilise for global justice, including through values-based volunteering, humanitarian responses, and active citizenship. All Comhlámh’s work is underpinned by a commitment to Global Citizenship Education (GCE), which deepens understanding of the structural causes of inequality, unsustainability, as well as the connections between local and global challenges. Overall, Comhlámh provides a unique and vital space to work in solidarity with others towards a shared goal of a world beyond injustice.
The current decade began with unprecedented global challenges. COVID-19, escalating wars, the climate emergency, and large-scale human migration have highlighted the uncertain, fragile, and complex nature of our interconnected world. No longer will the traditional development narrative of ‘us and them’, ‘global north and global south’, ‘developed and developing’ suffice for a world that is so evidently interdependent. The scale of the challenges we are facing requires radically different ways of being and doing. It is vital that, in our efforts to rise to such challenges, we dig into the root causes of global injustice including colonialism and earth-harming economic models.
The wider development sector is beginning to grapple with this need for different ways of being and doing. With discussions emerging around unequal power dynamics, development trends are beginning to shift towards localisation, and development agencies are engaging with the concept of decolonising aid. The Global Citizenship Education (GCE) sector is also drawing upon decolonial perspectives which cast a light on the coloniality of existing GCE frames and approaches to teaching and facilitation. Ecological sustainability is being given increasing prominence in different sectors, with increasing emphasis on responding to the climate crisis through reconnecting with the earth and caring for all living systems. This isn’t easy or comfortable work, but it provides possibilities for truly transformative approaches.
As we grapple with this rapidly changing global context, Comhlámh believes there is a pressing need for transformative models that create space for inquiry, for exploration of the complex, interdependent and unequal world of which we are part, and for the envisaging of a more just and sustainable future for all.
Comhlámh aims to create spaces within which different ways of being and doing can be nurtured, and from which new possibilities for action might emerge. We aim to provide the spaces for transformative thinking, practice, and action, and believe this is key to establishing the conditions for innovation and change.
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