Posts Tagged ‘peace’
Cool projects by cool people
I spent last week in San Diego, at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, talking about women, media, power and peace. The three-day conference brought together a kick-ass group of creative, dedicated women from across the media sphere — traditional journalism, documentary film, crisis mapping, blogging, and more. Here are a few [...]
Memo to the NYT: Not every war in Africa is a genocide
Earlier this week, the New York Times published an editorial that sketches the violence in Congo this way: It has its roots in Rwanda; it has a renegade rebel commander who wants a lot of power; it has 17,000 peacekeepers on the ground (though, PS NYT, only roughly 6,000 are in eastern DRC). And therefore [...]
Newsflash: A war, hopefully, ends
The rebel group that’s been causing a ruckus in Burundi signed a peace deal with the government today. File this away in your head under, “Things that are more significant than they sound.” Burundi has had a tough go of history, with rounds of massacres that mirror, both metaphorically and (at least in part) causally, [...]
Citizen diplomacy
This isn’t a Rwanda post, but I can’t help myself. Two guys, one from Israel, the other from Gaza, met at a youth dialogue camp, and as the violence there has gotten nasty again, have started blogging about…well, everything, but generically, peace. It’s a kind of joint diary that covers their own feelings, the things [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [