War and Peace and War: The Untold Story of the Colombian Civil War and the Potential for Genuine Peace
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/war-and-peace-and-war-the-untold-story-of-the-colombian-civil-war-an
Bogota, Colombia – At the end of last year, the world celebrated what seemed to be the end one of history’s longest standing internal wars. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who had brokered...
#Vamba_Sherif’s ‘Bound to Secrecy’ is masterful storytelling
▻http://africasacountry.com/review-vamba-sherifs-bound-to-secrecy
In 2012, The Economist Magazine’s style blog, Prospero, featured an essay titled “War and Peace in Monrovia: Where is #Liberia’s Tolstoy?”. The essay was written by a journalist who visited.....
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’Comfort women’ still controversial in Japan, S. Korea - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
►http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201207140043
Eriko Ikeda is fighting a battle against time as she tries to keep a small museum in Tokyo’s Nishi-Waseda neighborhood dedicated to the former “comfort women” open.
Ikeda, the head of the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, says more people are denying the government’s and military’s involvement in forcing Korean and other Asian women to provide sex for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II.
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