All Blog Posts Tagged 'Algeria' (4)

Peace work comes in all shapes and sizes

Literally, peace work does come in all shapes and sizes. Recently I came onboard with an organization called Arts Action Group. Some really great folks who are arts educators have been traveling to Kosovo and Western Saharah to involve children and youth in arts education and conflict resolution work.

When people find out about this work they question how it resolves conflict. Well you tell me, if children have been affected by dangerous living conditions and the rhetoric of how to hate… Continue

Added by Jillian Post on June 4, 2014 at 2:21pm — No Comments

This Week in African Conflict... February 28th-March 6th, 2012.

A lawyers group claim that police arrested a carpenter on Wednesday who questioned whether Zimbabwe’s President still had the strength to blow up balloons at his 88^th birthday celebrations, under a law making it an offense to insult the President.
The top UN envoy to Libya expressed…

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Added by Rebecca Sargent on March 6, 2012 at 8:09pm — No Comments

This Week in African Conflict... February 7th-14th, 2012.

The UN and Interpol discussedtransnational organized crime in West Africa, including illicit drug trafficking and the proliferation of illegal arms, as well maritime piracy in Lyon, France on Monday.
An anti-homosexuality bill is being once again resurrected by the Parliament in Uganda with…

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Added by Rebecca Sargent on February 14, 2012 at 7:20pm — No Comments

This Week in African Conflict... January 31st-February 7th, 2012.

The West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) will be launching its new book, “Election Dispute Management Practice Guide for West Africa” on February 14^th, 2012 at the Grand Mensvic Hotel, in East Legon, Accra, Ghana at 9am. The keynote speech at the launch will be delivered by Sierra Leone’s Chair of the Electoral…

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Added by Rebecca Sargent on February 7, 2012 at 9:13pm — No Comments