Essays
Empathy with the Enemy (The Pedestrian, Vol.1 No.1, 2010)
Work and the Art of Living (Blackbird, 2008)
Empathy and the Art of Living (Blackbird, 2007)
Time and the Art of Living (Blackbird, 2007)
Portraits
What a philosopher, certified insane, thinks about his doctors: Alan Human
How to survive an education system that teaches boredom and conformity: Phin Campell
Why a nurse thinks ‘we surely can’t be here just to do things for ourselves’: Frances Fairweather
What chain-making in a Midlands factory can lead to: Robbie Morgan
Why a grower of organic vegetables needs to travel the world in search of ‘good people’: Andy Bell
‘I’m not a great thinker, I’m a doer’: Royston Hoare
Why an Argentinian wildlife expert believes smiling is an international language: Val Crowder
Why a school governor wants to empower children: Athene Reiss
How a cycling enthusiast became part of the human race: Steve Stuart
Articles, research and reports
Empathy and Climate Change: Proposals for a Revolution of Human Relationships (2010) in Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination (edited by Stefan Skrimshire, Continuum). An earlier version of this chapter is available here.
Five Lessons for the Climate Crisis: What the History of Resource Scarcity in the United States and Japan can teach us (2010) in History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure (edited by Mark Levene, Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts, Humanities-Ebooks). This chapter is a revised version of a longer report for the United Nations Development Programme, available here.
You Are Therefore I Am: How Empathy Education Can Create Social Change (July 2008, an Oxfam Research Report)
For God’s Sake Do Something! How Religions Can Find Unexpected Unity Around Climate Change (November 2007, United Nations Development Programme)
How Change Happens: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Human Development (February 2007, an Oxfam Research Report)
The Limits on Pro-Poor Agricultural Trade in Guatemala: Land, Labour and Political Power (2005, background paper for Human Development Report 2005, United Nations Development Programme, also published in Journal of Human Development, 2006)
The Worldview of the Oligarchy in Guatemalan Politics (2003, Ph.D. thesis, University of Essex, UK)
Differentiating the Democracies of the West (2003, European Journal of Political Research)
Making Democracy Work for Pro-poor Development (2003, Commonwealth Secretariat)
The Uneven Performance of Third Wave Democracies: Electoral Politics and the Imperfect Rule of Law in Latin America (2002, Latin American Politics and Society). This is also published in Latin American Democratic Transformations (2009, edited by William Smith, Wiley-Blackwell).
Mortgaged Democracy (2001, from The Routledge Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought)
How to Construct a Database of Liberal Democratic Performance (2001, Democratization, Vol. 8 No. 3)
Measuring Liberal Democratic Performance: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique (2000, Political Studies)
Civil and Uncivil Actors in the Guatemalan Peace Process (1999, Bulletin of Latin American Research)
Interpreting Land in the Guatemalan Peace Process (1998, unpublished)
Guatemalan Returnees and the Dilemma of Political Mobilization (1997, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol.10 No.1)
Selected journalism
‘Time to Swap Introspection for Outrospection’, The Scotsman, August 2010
‘Empathy’ – from The Observer’s Ideas for Modern Living series, March 2010
‘Does the Progressive Left Really Belive in Climate Change?’ Climate Change Denial blog, January 2008
Other books
How to Find Fulfilling Work (forthcoming, May 2012, Pan Macmillan)
What the Rich Don’t Tell the Poor: Conversations in Guatemala (an exploration of how wealthy people think about poverty, unpublished)
Message to the Gardeners of England (a political novel, unpublished)
