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February 13, 2008
| Author: | Stephanie Hanson, News Editor |
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Backgrounder
President Bush’s five-country trip to Africa is organized to showcase his policy successes on the continent.
See more in Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Liberia, Diplomacy
December 19, 2007
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Michael J. Gerson states that “deployment of UN troops is perhaps the last hope for the betrayed people of Darfur. And we cannot run again.”
See more in Sudan, International Organizations, International Peace and Security
November 28, 2007
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Michael Gerson writes that, in Rwanda , there is a “need to somehow deliver the next generation from shapeless rage."
See more in Wars and Warfare, International Crime
June 12, 2007
| Speaker: | Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
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Transcript
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour discusses the functioning of her office within the United Nations and how it is working to prevent mass atrocities.
See more in Sudan, Humanitarian Intervention
March 6, 2003
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November 2001
| Author: | Elizabeth Neuffer, 1998-99 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Book
Examining competing notions of justice in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning Boston Globe correspondent Elizabeth Neuffer convinces readers that crimes against humanity cannot be resolved by talk of forgiveness, or through the more common recourse to forgetfulness.
See more in Bosnia/Herzegovina, International Law
May 13, 1999
| Speaker: | Anthony Gambino, Great Lakes Coordinator, USAID |
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| Presider: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
See more in Sub-Saharan Africa, Conflict Prevention
October 1, 1998
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See more in Africa, International Organizations, Humanitarian Intervention, Peacemaking
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