The backdrop to today’s UN Security Council action is provided by Lydia Polgreen’s latest must-read in the NY Times. Money quote: The opposing sides in the conflict now seem headed toward a large-scale military confrontation, bringing Darfur to the edge of a new abyss — perhaps the deepest it has…
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Posted in | No Comments »This morning the 15 member UN Security Council voted to approved a resultion creating a UN peacekeeping force for Darfur. Twelve members voted in favor, with abstentions from Russia, China and Qatar. The huge caveat to this otherwise significant act, is that the the Government of Sudan must agree to…
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Posted in | No Comments »In 2004, as a student at Swarthmore College and as the grandson of Holocaust Survivors, Mark Hanis could not remain idle as genocide raged in Darfur, and founded a student group to raise funds for the African Union. Mark transformed that young organization into a well-known NGO, the Genocide Intervention…
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Posted in | No Comments »Last week’s interview with Mvemba Dizolele, a freelance journalist and Congo native, can be found here. …
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Posted in | No Comments »This semester I have been struggling about one of my course choices - Inquiry Based Learning - for a variety of reasons. I’ve gotten very mixed reviews of the course from colleagues and so far it’s been - how shall we say - loose in it’s organization. I’ve largely…
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Posted in | No Comments »This weekend is your last chance to visit the ‘eye
for Colour’ exhibition at World
Museum Liverpool, ending Sunday 3 September 2006.Tell
us your favourite colour online and have it projected live into the exhibition
space.> …
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Posted in | No Comments »It’s the last day of August and the holiday season is officially over. But don’t get
all gloomy - there’s lots you can do the brighten the looming autumnal months.The Guardian have put together a handy Top 50 of the best things to…
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Posted in | No Comments »Back in the pre-internet days, then back even further to my first computer, a Commodore 64 (of course!), I used to dial in to BBSes (bulletin board systems) on a 300 baud modem. For a moment I got excited when 1200/75 connections were possible to a commercial BBS-meets-teletex news system called…
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