Posts Tagged ‘peacebuilding’
Burundi’s elections, from inside the polls
Here’s an audio-visual look at Burundi’s presidential poll, from inside one rural voting station, which I produced for my Pulitzer Center project “Beyond Peace Deals.” If I had had the luxuries of the US, like great bandwidth and the absence of grenades going off behind one’s hotel the night of a presidential election, this would [...]
If you don’t blog for awhile, do you disappear?
I’ve been on a manic reporting binge for the last few weeks, so I haven’t had time to keep up the blogging. Or the tweeting. Or with Facebook. I am therefore no longer certain of my continued existence. And it turns out, I swear, I can’t even see myself in the mirror any more. I [...]
How to bring peace to Africa
Okay, I have no idea. That’s a teaser, one designed especially for Twitter. Sometimes, it takes a bit of cyberwhoring to get a click or two… I actually have no idea how to bring peace anywhere, but I want to know. Which is why I’m spending these coming months wandering around Africa for the Pulitzer [...]
After war, who’s not a ‘vulnerable population’?
I’m up to my ears in UN project reports about peacebuilding activities in various countries, and I continue to see language like this, a recommendation about what a small business should do were it to receive UN financial support: “Give more jobs to vulnerable persons affected by the conflict (ex-combatants, women, youth, disabled, …)” Ex-combatants. [...]
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer who covers human rights, Africa and foreign affairs. [