Posts Tagged ‘genocide’
When America says “genocide,” does anyone care?
This is the uncomfortable and necessary question author Rebecca Hamilton raises over at The Atlantic today. Hamilton is the author of Fighting for Darfur, an analysis of the anti-genocide advocacy movement in the United States, and her Atlantic piece is based on a newly declassified State Department memo which bolsters her book’s argument about the [...]
In Sudan, a return to ethnic cleansing?
Terrifying news today via the indefatigable Rebecca Hamilton, author of Fighting for Darfur, who has a piece on Nick Kristof’s New York Times blog today that must be read: Sudan’s Khartoum government, which is about to lose southern Sudan, is fighting to keep the Nuba mountain region… by conducting a campaign of what looks like [...]
Cote d’Ivoire and the linguistic roulette of mass atrocity
My use of the word genocide on Cote d’Ivoire has attracted some interest and a few hearty objections. Thankfully, I think there’s a better led and curated conversation about the country and a variety likely scenarios on other blogs (try here and here). The responses to my post and the thinking they inspired make me [...]
Why we should be worried about genocide in Cote d’Ivoire
Cote d’Ivoire is going through an ugly time, and today was an especially ugly day. The UN thinks the incumbent president is hiding evidence of a massacre; the incumbent president’s followers are threatening to overrun a hotel where their political opposition is based; and the UN’s special advisers on genocide prevention and the responsibility to [...]
An African strongman, a rockstar journalist, and an EU worker with a dopey haircut all walk into a bar…
I wrote this for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and while posting it in its entirety here is going to bite into my SEO rating, I figure there aren’t a whole lot of people who can overtake me in a Google search for “jina moore.” And this, alas, is no variety show. I wrote [...]
An open application to join Kofi Annan’s speech writing team
Because I’d make a few tweaks to his op-ed on Holocaust education and genocide prevention. I’d clean up some sloppy language and some bad metaphors. And lest you think that’s just snotty writer talk, here’s the point up front: The metaphors we use about genocide tell us what we think causes it. And I think [...]
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