Articles by Ken Hannaford-Ricardi

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The Kids the World Forgot
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2018

20 Jan 2018 – I spent much of yesterday with some kids the world forgot. Young, remarkably sturdy and resilient, they can often be naïve and almost willfully gullible. They inhabit a world that delights in tripping them up and watching them fall. They are Kabul’s Street Kids.

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Death at the Gate in Afghanistan
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2018

Kabul, January 2017 – The insurgents whose only weapon is violence are clearly gaining sway here, but the Afghan Peace Volunteers are adamant in their knowledge that violence solves nothing. They struggle daily to practice and teach nonviolence, which their charter maintains “is a [personal] value and a way of living, relating, and acting,” a positive force for change in our own lives and in the life of our planet.

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Welcome to Kabul
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi | Voices for Creative Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2018

31 Dec 2017 – It is a dream come true being back among friends in Kabul! Streams of dented Toyotas (They are all Toyotas!) with windscreens cracked like bolts of lightning still jockey for position on roads where traffic lights and common sense hold little sway.

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