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Although he left Rwanda in August of 1994, Dallaire continues to speak out about the terrors he witnessed in the war-torn country—an uncomfortable subject that some would rather forget...
What's the most effective way to get First World kids to start caring about Third World problems? The answer, according to the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), is an action-packed humanitarian video game that lets players rack up points for air dropping food rations and surveying war-torn populations on the fictitious island of Sheylan. "The gaming market is saturated with blood and guts and gore," says Justin Roche, the game's project manager at WFP headquarters in Rome. "We've turned the concept on its head by addressing the urgency and immediacy of a real crisis...
Civil-affairs soldiers rebuild public utilities and other civilian services in war-torn areas, and psyops specialists are in charge of propaganda, such as leaflets and pro-U.S. broadcasts aimed at winning the "hearts and minds" of the citizens. Most of these soldiers are reservists, but of the some 8,700 listed on the rolls, almost 1,200 are what senior Army officers call ghosts--reservists who don't have enough training to be deployed overseas or who have not attended monthly drills in about a year. The shortfall has been made up by sending qualified reservists overseas more...
...systematic rape of Bosnian women by Serbian soldiers, and it moved her to action. "I grew up in a war, so I was drawn to suffering," she says. Within six months, having raised $2,000 with the help of a local Unitarian church, she traveled to Bosnia, determined to do something. Today Salbi's group, Women for Women International, based in Washington and with 180 staff members and a budget of $8.7 million, is a lifeline for war-torn women in eight countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. The organization picks up where...
Events throughout the weekend also allowed the students to share their perspectives on life in war-torn Iraq and the effects of the U.S. invasion...