Publications
Preview copy 'Every language is a world'
Radi Suudi and Leila Jaffar
The handbook 'Iedere Taal is een Wereld - Intercultural Communication for Professionals', written by Leila Jaffar and Radi Suudi, has been published by SWP Publishers. For more about this book: click here.
To view part of the first chapter of our book, click here.
Download the book flyer here ! You can order via this link.
Article: 'Intercultural Neighborhood Mediation, how do you do that?'
Radi Suudi and Leila Jaffar
from: Sozio Journal for Social Professionals and the Social Domain - No. April 2, 2017
Article about neighborhood mediation and intercultural conflicts. Click here for the article.
Article: 'Mediation in Intercultural Conflicts'
Radi Suudi and Leila Jaffar
from: Journal for Conflict Management-December 2016
Article on mediation in intercultural conflicts. Article from 'Tijdschrift voor Conflicthantering', December 2016. This is the trade journal for professional mediators, published by SDU. Click here for the article.
Coaching and Diversity at the State
Leila Jaffar and Radi Suudi
In 2008 and 2009, Jaffar Consultancy carried out a large project on behalf of the A and O Fund Rijk (the Labor Market and Training Fund of the Government) under the name “Coaching and Diversity.”
Coaches and managers at six ministries were intensively trained by Jaffar Consultancy in coaching and guiding bi-cultural policy officers. The responses from the participants were generally very positive.
In June 2007, a kick-off meeting for this project was organized by the A en O Fonds Rijk. Click here for a report of the meeting. The closing meeting took place in March 2009. Click here for the report of that meeting.
The A+O Fonds Rijk has produced a very informative and readable booklet about the Coaching and Diversity project. Click here for that publication. The booklet, featuring interviews with coaches and managers who participated in the training sessions by Jaffar Consultancy, provides a good overview of the project and its importance for diversity policy. We ourselves wrote an extensive chapter for this publication in which we discuss our experiences during the implementation of the project and draw methodological conclusions regarding coaching and diversity.
Moroccan women as a source of inspiration. The importance of exchanging knowledge about women's rights
Leila Jaffar and Fatima Bouchibate
Together with lawyer Fatima Bouchibate and staff from Mama Cash , Leila Jaffar visited a number of women's organizations in Morocco in 2004. During this study trip, it became clear that the new family law offers many opportunities for women to stand up for their rights. However, according to Moroccan activists, there is a great deal of 'legal illiteracy' among Moroccan women. Because women have little knowledge of the new family law, they cannot properly claim their rights. In Morocco, women's organizations provide practical help and support to women; the volunteers are often also lawyers.
Back in the Netherlands, it appears that here too, many Moroccan women—as well as the professionals assisting them with matters such as divorce, custody, and residence permits—are not well informed about the opportunities offered by current family law. The experience of Moroccan women's organizations in reaching women can inspire Dutch professionals. Women's organizations in Morocco, in turn, are interested in specialized knowledge regarding domestic violence and in citizen political participation. The article can be read here (pdf).
In: NCDO Yearbook 2004-2005. Amsterdam: NCDO, 2005.
Diversity Growth Book – Ministry of the Interior
In 2009, the Ministry of the Interior published a “National Diversity Growth Book”. This is a loose-leaf edition with sections that appeared in the course of 2009 and could be added to the collection, so that the book "grew" over the course of the year and from which it also takes its name.
The book has been distributed government-wide by BiZa to all managers and HRM advisors at the government ministries. The book pays attention in every possible way to the question of how government managers can deal with diversity in their departments.
Radi Suudi of Jaffar Consultancy was one of four external experts who were asked by the Ministry of the Interior to think about the content of the book and to help write it. He wrote two practice-based cases for the Growth Book and also participated with the other external experts in a final panel discussion that is also included in the book.
Click here for the foreword to the Growth Book , here for Case 1 , here for Case 2 , and here for the report of the panel discussion.