Posts Tagged ‘post-conflict’
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. [...]
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