Stepping into other people’s shoes has been a catalytic force for social change throughout human history.
We found changes in regions associated with empathy, emotion regulation and reward processing.
Compassion isn’t the property of Labour or the Conservatives, but when both parties embrace it does it mean anything at all?
There is more money in the world than at any other point in human history, so why doesn’t it reach the places that need it most?
Could society be rebuilt around understanding and compassion instead of shame? The effects would be revolutionary.
The Home Office says that asylum seeker Aderonke Apata can't be a lesbian as she has had children with a man. The new Solidarity with Aderonke Tumblr project tells a different story.
Human conflict is unavoidable, but violence is not. By facing up to the ‘unacceptable’ we can learn to live with difference.
David Edgar's Iron Curtain Trilogy shows empathy is the key to the transformation of the the left/right political divide.
