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
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 MoreHow do you get from a dusty refugee camp to Atlanta, anyway?
This year, the Christian Science Monitor has been following Bill Clinton Hadam and his family, as LBC–“Little Bill Clinton,” as the series and the…
Read MorePoorism vs. Tourism: A photographer's take
Hop over to Scarlett Lion’s blog and read today’s Context Africa piece, about photographer Samantha Reinders. She’s been photographing Township Tourism in South Africa…
Read MoreOn paying money to look at poor people
In a moment of serendipity, I published an article this week at the Christian Science Monitor at exactly the same time its topic, poverty…
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The Pity and Voyeurism — and Authenticity — Of Poverty Tourism
Does peeking at how the other five-sixths lives preserve culture – or commodify it? Mayange, Rwanda — Jeanne d’Arc Mukamurigo and her daughter sit…
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