When Helping Hurts: How Acts of Goodwill Can Stall Peace

When helping hurts: How acts of goodwill can stall peace

At first glance, helping those on the other side of a conflict seems like an act of compassion and progress. Yet new research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that even seemingly well-intentioned initiatives can produce the opposite result.

Abigail Did Us Dirty: How a Woman We Tried to Help Betrayed an Entire Community of Goodwill

We truly wish we never had to bring this story to you, but at this point, we have no choice. Abi did us dirty—in a way that not only stained our white shirts but dragged us through the mud.On October 3rd, our community came together to help Abigail, a mother of one who had lost her child’s father and was allegedly denied her share of the man’s estate. She also claimed to have misplaced GH₵5,800 belonging to another woman—a debt that had brought …