Who Decides When Survivors Can Tell Their Own Stories?
A UN court tried to stop three Rwandan rape survivors from telling their stories in their own words. When is protection paternalism?
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The real issue with Africa and the ICC
After all the reporting trips you’ve read about here, all the stories I’ve done about war and justice and voice and violence, I’m massively…
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Happy International Women’s Day!
I wish I was in Bukavu today, where I’ve met so many strong, amazing women fighting against not only the horrors (rape) we often…
Read MoreKigali Grenades: News Redux
If you do a Google News search for ‘kigali grenades,’ you’ll get nearly 1500 items right now. That includes a lot of bullshit, so…
Read MoreDon’t look here for good news
Al Shabaab bombs Kampala threatens Bujumbura, which now feels like my second home. Journalists and political candidates are turning up dead in Rwanda. New…
Read MoreAn open application to join Kofi Annan’s speech writing team
Because I’d make a few tweaks to his op-ed on Holocaust education and genocide prevention. I’d clean up some sloppy language and some bad…
Read MoreThis week in African elections…
There aren’t any. To be fair, only one of the three I’m thinking about is even supposed to have happened. But the other two…
Read MoreDoes the Holocaust teach us anything about modern-day genocide? (Oh, and happy new year)
Things are quiet on this blog while we’re preparing for a server transfer and redesign. But here’s a nice graph from a piece in…
Read MoreThanks to the girls at St. Mary's in Portland, Ore.
I had a great time this afternoon with the ladies of the comparative religion class at St. Mary’s Academy in leafy downtown Portland. Thanks,…
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…
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