Publications
Preview copy 'Every language is a world'
Radi Suudi and Leila Jaffar
SWP Publishers has published the textbook "Every Language is a World: Intercultural Communication for Professionals" by Leila Jaffar and Radi Suudi. For more information about this book, click here. here
To view part of the first chapter of our book, click here
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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 professional journal for professional mediators and facilitators, published by the 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 and O Fund Rijk. Click here for a report of the meeting. The final meeting took place in March 2009. Click here for the report of that meeting.
The A+O Rijk Fund has created a very informative and worth reading booklet about the Coaching and Diversity project. Click here for that publication. The booklet with interviews with coaches and managers who participated in the Jaffar Consultancy training courses provides a good picture of the project and the importance of diversity policy. We wrote an extensive chapter for this publication in which we talk about our experiences in implementing the project and draw methodical conclusions about 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 employees of 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 lot 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, and the volunteers are often also lawyers.
Back in the Netherlands, it appears that here too, many Moroccan women and the professionals who help them with matters such as divorce, guardianship and residence permits, are not well informed of the opportunities offered by current family legislation. The experience of Moroccan women's organizations in reaching women can inspire Dutch professionals. Women's organizations in Morocco are in turn interested in specialist knowledge about domestic violence and in the political participation of citizens. The article is here to read (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 en here for the report of the panel discussion.