The view that I have got as a newbie in the field from this discourse are:
- most of the senior colleagues are not well-trained in the basics of human rights and it is reflected in their attitude or worldview when executing tasks;
- the institution should focus on strategy to reach people at home instead of prioritising on its international engagement while the staffs for example in the communications unit could benefit the institution during their so-called free time by providing internal training to other staffs or conducting a 'real' research to empower the institution and national human rights;
- language could be a headache because of the elderly people's worldview who were trained in colonial period believing that people could articulate ideas without understanding the basis of matters and younger people's adherence to this 'positivism' while this is not really a proficiency issue; and
- I believe that there are staffs who are not trained in this basic course maybe because it is deemed as not classy nor having any 'overseas' brand and would like to urge them to train themselves with basics in order to efficiently serve the public.
Overall, I think that understanding the basics and root causes of everything is a key to master a particular field. There are approaches to that in methodology. We can utter everything like parrots but too bad we would get no benefit out of it. In Abrahamic traditions' term, those mutterings are known as vanities.
