The Peacemakers of Darfur: ‘We Are Your Aunties, and We Are Coming for Mediation’
Over the past three years, 16 women and the local organizations they run in Darfur have intervened in dozens of disputes and brokered solutions.
What happens after a long conflict and how is peace maintained amid lingering animosity and grief over the lives lost in war? Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Peacekeeping” deal with efforts to maintain peace and rebuild nations once wars have ended and rebuilding begins. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on peacekeeping.
Over the past three years, 16 women and the local organizations they run in Darfur have intervened in dozens of disputes and brokered solutions.
Americans have the watches, but the Taliban have the time: On peace in Afghanistan
In the fanfare around the peace deal signed by the Colombian state and the FARC guerillas, the role of multinational corporations in the violence was largely ignored.
What will await Trump in Afghanistan?
A new de-radicalization program provides a window into Sudan's efforts to fight extremism, while maintaining legitimacy with its Islamist base.
For months, Nyabany and her five children had avoided the gunfire. But they were dying all the same.
For good or ill, the new president's decisions on missile defense will shape the US-Russia relationship and the future of the entire arms control regime.
San Salvador’s upstart mayor, Nayib Bukele, has promised a new way forward for a city besieged by decades of violence. His biggest obstacle, however, may not be the city’s gangs, but the city’s idea of itself.
It's commonly argued that President Erdogan's regime is a perversion of democratic norms. In fact, in the light of burgeoning populism around the world, his demokrasi is the new normal.
The face of Ukraine's 2014 revolution has a new goal: rooting out corruption in Odessa's customs service.
Estonia is one of the smallest countries in NATO, and it needs that alliance more than ever.
Ukraine is waging two wars: one against Russian-backed separatists in the east and another against its own internal corruption.
Mark C. Hackett, Special to the Pulitzer Center
Mark is the founder and president of Operation Broken Silence. Views expressed in this guest post are not those of the Pulitzer Center.
Jason will share his experiences in reporting international conflicts. He will give lectures to students interested in international journalism/affairs with fresh information on global issues such as conflicts and the current social and political situations in countries he has covered.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 6:30 PM (doors open 6:00)
Where:
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th Street NW
Washington , DC 20009
202-387-7638
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In May 2008, the Pulitzer Center partnered with Helium to continue its second round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices Writing Contest. Find the winning essays here.
In March 2008, The Pulitzer Center partnered with Helium to launch its first round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices Contest. Find the winning essays here.
By Allie Feras. American University's The Eagle
An amplified focus on the genocide in Darfur has drawn international attention away from tragedies occurring in south Sudan, filmmaker Jen Marlowe said at a panel discussion Tuesday evening.
"The peace process that was started [in South Sudan] ... has been allowed to slide back into what looks like a slide back into civil war," Marlowe said.
Jon Sawyer participated in a panel discussion about Darfur, Sudan at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He explained why the African Union force couldn’t fulfill its peacekeeping mission.