How to count your war dead
I stumbled into a controversy last week when I wrote an article about the new Human Security Report. I wasn’t the only one; lots…
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Truth Commissions: A Comprehensive Report
"…Okay, now tell me where he put his hands"
This is, unhappily, the sequel to my earlier taken-down on major media coverage of rape in conflict. Turns out I have a little bit…
Read MoreSeven rebels killed in DRC, or "Sometimes peacekeepers do shoot people."
In catching up on events that happened in the world while I was traveling from one part of it to another, I hit a…
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Manging More Change, Faster
Upset with how slow public-health initiatives moved in poor countries, Josh Ruxin decided to treat them like the private sector. Just weeks after the…
Read MoreYou don't get to be 15 years on the lam from genocide charges without being clever…
Here’s an update on the FDLR web page story, a short online piece for the Christian Science Monitor.
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Reporter Succeeds Where UN Failed: Rwanda rebel website closed
FDLR militia group’s website in Europe shut down after German newspaper raised questions. The war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo took a surprising…
Read MoreGermany to FDLR: "Page not found"
It’s not like the FDLR web page was any big secret. The Hutu militia still active in eastern Congo, and viewed by most as…
Read MoreMaybe if I took Anna Wintour to Congo for a Vogue cover shoot, I could get my expenses covered?
The New York Post says today: According to sources, Wintour’s European entourage, which is usually about 10 people including her creative director, fashion director,…
Read MoreEt cetera, and some good reading
The list of things to blog about is long, but time has been short lately, and this blog, if I would let it, would…
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