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Category Archives: Africa

How to Avoid War over Water

by Kevin Watkins and Anders Berntell Published on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune / Paris, France ‘Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting over,” Mark … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

In Africa, Women Stride Into Power By Laurie Goering

Chicago Tribune | Wednesday 16 August 2006Kigali, Rwanda – Sweden and Norway once claimed the world’s highest percentage of female lawmakers. Now that distinction belongs to an African nation: Rwanda. … Continue reading

18 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

War in Congo for Coltan

Earth First! Journal>>Article Details High-Tech Genocide Sprocket Cell phones may have revolutionized the way we communicate, but in central Africa, their biggest legacy is war and the extermination of endangered … Continue reading

24 April, 2006 · Leave a comment

Olara Otunnu: 2005 Sydney Peace Prize Address

Saving our children from the scourge of war: The Sydney Peace Prize 2005 9 November 2005 I. Olara Otunnu delivers the 2005 Sydney Peace Prize lecture Tribute and Dedication If … Continue reading

10 November, 2005 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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