glokal e.V. is a Berlin-based association dedicated to education and counseling that challenges power structures; it has been active in political youth and adult education since 2006. We have been a registered association since 2008.
On this website you will find our nationwide consulting, education and training offers for organizations, institutions, multipliers, teachers, youth groups and school classes.
An elementary component of our seminars and educational events are North-South relations, which, in our eyes, are still characterized above all by their colonial history and the asymmetrical and racist power relations based on it. The starting point of our work is thus a postcolonial and power-critical perspective on global, intra-societal and interpersonal relations. We assume that global and local inequality can only be changed if we self-critically question dominant and taken-for-granted knowledge and actions and fundamentally transform global structures. This also includes not only opposing “fair” trade to capitalist relations of exploitation, but also questioning the violent economic, social and political shaping of people and society.
Our goal is to encourage people to critically examine their own positions in Germany and in a global context, and to highlight possible courses of action. For us, the latter includes, among other things, motivating people to become politically active and concretely restructuring our own work. glokal e.V. is a member organization of Netzwerk BER e.V. (Berlin Development Policy Council ) and the Decolonize Berlin Alliance.
Internship
Unfortunately, we are not able to offer internships due to our capacities.
The team of glokal e.V.
Murat Akan, Knud Aschenbroich, Tahir Della, Amina Hikari Fall, Kristina Kontzi, Lawrence Oduro-Sarpong, Carolin Philipp, and Perihan Zeran.
Our team combines experience from the fields of political, environmental, educational and social sciences, anthropology, postcolonial studies, social development, political activism as well as from the approaches of anti-bias, Betzavta, mediation and systemic consulting work and organizational process facilitation.
In addition, we collaborate with qualified speakers from our network as needed. In addition to those listed below, our active members include Anna Gold, Cima-Nadja Samadi, Cornelia Schneider, Dennis Kirschbaum, Jamie Schearer-Udeh, Jeasuthan Nageswaran, Mariana Lo Sasso, Nora Benariba, Reza Mirdadi, Thu Hoía Tran, and Zuher Jazmati. The pool of speakers is coordinated by Kristina Kontzi.