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Conflict takes many forms, from disagreements between different political parties to indigenous communities battling government and corporate interests to full-blown warfare. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Conflict” feature reporting that covers adversarial politics, war and peace. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on conflict.

 

November 10, 2018 | Granta

Dividing Lines

Jack Losh

The fight against militias that roam CAR's displaced persons camps and now persecute the very people they claim to protect.

October 30, 2018 | Al Jazeera

Child Soldiers of South Sudan

Andreea Campeanu and Patricia Huon

In South Sudan there are still 19,000 children in armed forces, with boys trained to fight and girls taken as "wives."

Cold War in the Caucasus

Will Englund

Twenty years in limbo: Nothing exemplified the collapse of the Soviet Union like the bloody fighting over Nagorno Karabakh, and today that enclave remains a source of bitterness and tension.

Egypt: The Revolution Continues

Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Nicole Salazar

In the wake of the uprising that ousted President Mubarak, Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Cairo, Egypt with Nicole Salazar on the struggle for democracy, social justice and economic reform.

Arab Spring in Syria, Egypt and Gaza

Reese Erlich

Few thought Tunisia's December 2010 uprising would so quickly spark revolts in the surrounding region. What will the Arab Spring mean for Syria, Egypt and Gaza?

Taliban Militancy: Is the Game Over in Swat?

Shaheen Buneri

The Taliban has fallen in northwestern Pakistan's Swat Valley, but for the three million displaced in the conflict between security forces and Taliban militants, stability remains far away.

Ivory Coast: Elections Turn to War

Peter DiCampo

Instead of a return to peace and prosperity, Ivory Coast’s long-delayed presidential elections marked a return to brutal conflict—and with it, a severe humanitarian crisis.

Divided Under God: Nigeria's Sectarian Crisis

Joe Bavier, Bénédicte Kurzen

Sectarian violence sparked by a deepening rift between Nigeria's Muslims and Christians has killed thousands over the past decade and threatens the future unity of Africa's most populous nation.

Afghanistan by Donkey

Anna Badkhen

During the year that is supposed to determine Afghanistan’s future, Anna Badkhen gives readers a longer look at a deeply fissured nation that has endured war almost incessantly for millennia.

A Soldier’s Gift

Meg Jones

An American military medical facility has become one of the most active organ donor hospitals in Germany. That’s because a high percentage of mortally wounded U.S. troops are donating their organs in a country where organ donation is still a verboten topic.

Colombia: Mining Fever in Paradise

Anna-Katarina Gravgaard, Lorenzo Morales

The government in Colombia has to choose between guarding its unique ecosystems or boosting its economy with mining. The decision could exhaust or recast Colombia’s long, agonizing armed conflict.

July 01, 2013 | General news

This Week: A Stillborn Democracy

Tom Hundley, Senior Editor

This week, millions of demonstrators poured into streets of cities and towns across Egypt to protest the many shortcomings of the country’s first democratically elected government.

June 20, 2013 | General news

This Week: Mine Control

Tom Hundley, Senior Editor

Chinese dollars and the Chinese themselves have been pouring into Africa, mining the continent’s abundant resources, opening businesses, building infrastructure and generally making everyone nervous.

June 14, 2013 | General news, Project news

Six Months After Newtown

Amanda Ottaway

June 14, 2013, marks the six-month anniversary of the Newtown massacre. Two grantees, both reporting from Chicago, examine that city's own ongoing culture of gun violence.