An interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo by Beverly Bell and Jessica Hsu These glassblowers are also…
Month: June 2014
Silent Grace: A Film Review By Sumeet Grover
Silent Grace is an award-winning 2004 film, directed by filmmaker Maeve Murphy. It documents a…
PICTURE RIO: WHY SO MANY BRAZILIANS HATE THE WORLD CUP By Eugene Reznik
Mario Tama, a staff photographer for Getty Images, first caught my eye a few months ago…
Why 1 million Chinese migrants are building a new empire in Africa By Howard W. French
After days of coordinating with me over patchy cell phone connections, Hao Shengli arrived in Mozambique’s…
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK by Ayana Labossiere
I will never forget my first trip to Haiti. In 1990, at five years old, I…
Prisoners of Sugar
all photos ©2013 Raùl Zecca Castel Prisoners of Sugar Raùl Zecca Castel — University of…
How Mental Illness Fed My Creativity by Dirye Osman
There's no romance to mental illness. Whether you're suffering from psychosis or schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or…
International Peace Research Association at 50 BY Johan Galtung
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the…
Biafra, The Ostrich Mentality And Nigeria’s Tragedy By Okey Ndibe
There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I…
Good, Innovative Governance – What Is That? EDITORIAL by Johan Galtung
Pretoria, South Africa, Keynote Governance is politics, power–political-economic-military-cultural; decisions-carrots-sticks-ideas. Politics is about problems of realizing…
Peace Movements’ Common Vision: The Abolition of Militarism by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Dear friends, We are all aware that this is the 100th anniversary of the assassination…
After Israel, African kids start afresh in Uganda By RODNEY MUHUMUZA
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Speak no Hebrew. That’s what Ugandan teachers repeatedly tell the South Sudanese…
VICTORY FOR VIRUNGA? BRITISH OIL COMPANY AGREES TO END ITS OPERATIONS IN AFRICA’S OLDEST NATIONAL PARK
British oil company SOCO International plc (SOCO) has agreed to end its controversial operations in Africa’s…
Story of North Korean gold shows real world's interdependence'
Reuters/Michael Dalder It is too premature to make any accusations on the basis that the…
The film Zulu, 50 years on: classic or racist? By Kimon de Greef
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the film “Zulu”. While some consider it a classic,…
Connecting the dot: Congo and World War II; one of the other forgotten commemorations By Raïs Neza Boneza
The first victory on Nazism and Fascism were won on African soil. Congolese troops marched to…
11June – 11 July 2O14 Artist Lida Sheraftmand : Internals Worlds, External Relations with the London School of Economics, London
The exhibition is to be opened by the High Commissioner of Malta to the United…
A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis By Christian Parenti
Several strands of green thinking maintain that capitalism is incapable of a sustainable relationship with non-human…
Edward Snowden: A Healing Voice By Jacques Depelchin
Like many people, I was surprised to hear of Edward Snowden’s decision to leave his job…