<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hi Norbert, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> That's exactly what the internet world has brought upon us. But that does not mean that some assumptions aren't correct. There is need for more research to ascertain some assumptions as you rightly said. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards. </div><div dir="auto">Peter </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 12:38 PM Norbert Bollow <<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">nb@bollow.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:09:50 +0200<br>
Anriette Esterhuysen <<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">anriette@apc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> My personal view is that achieving diversity is not difficult. There<br>
> are frequent assumptions in the internet world that there are not<br>
> many women with IG knowledge and skills and leadership capacity and<br>
> experience. There are similar assumptions about the pool of qualified<br>
> candidates in the global South being extremely small. There is also<br>
> an assumption that diversity is just about gender, race,<br>
> geographic location (what about diversity of political experience,<br>
> views, business, knowledge etc.?).<br>
><br>
> I personally do not agree with any of these assumptions! Do you?<br>
<br>
I'm strongly in agreement with Anriette here.<br>
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On top of that, I wonder whether there's yet any in-depth research on<br>
the underlying mechaniosms how these nowadays certianly false beliefs<br>
and assumptions are still maintained and perpetuated.<br>
<br>
I think that it would be important to shine a bright light on what<br>
interests are served by these beliefs and assumptions.<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
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