On March 30, 2017 the news reported the finding of the bodies of two United Nations workers in eastern Congo. One was Michael Sharp from Kansas in the United States; the other was Zaida Catalán from Sweden. They were members of a U.N. “Group of Experts” who were working on conflict resolution in the long, torturously-twisted… Read more »
Category: Africa
Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jal’s book War Child: A Child Soldier’s Story is one of his ways of fighting against war and working for peace. The other way is through his African hip-hop music. As he says in the book, “It is time for me to tell my story using the music and lyrics that are my weapons… Read more »
ADAM CURLE (1916-2006)
“What’s peace?…It recognizes one humanity in which all lives are precious and worthy to be loved and given help towards fulfillment.” In 1970 the Nigerian army overwhelmed the army of the Biafran rebels, forcing a surrender and ending a 3-year long civil war that left half a million people dead. Many feared a bloodbath following… Read more »
ALISON DES FORGES (1942-2009)
“Governments hesitate to call the horror by its name, for to do so would oblige them to act.” The Rwandan genocide was personal for me. I had a Rwandan friend who was involved in peacemaking efforts and was caught up in the violence. He was missing for a month before we heard from him in… Read more »
Anthony Fabrice Kettemalet
Meet Anthony Fabrice Kettemallet, a young human rights activist in the Central African Republic who founded the organization Bird of Peace.