Peace and Conflict
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Mairead Corrigan Maguire was not actively involved with the Northern Ireland peace movement until she came face-to-face with violence in 1976. On August 10th, Danny Lennon and John Chillingworth of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), were driving through Belfast, with a rifle in their car. The IRA wanted to form a united Ireland through…
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Kateryna Yushchenko
A child of Ukrainian WWII immigrants to Chicago, she came to Ukraine in 1991 to run the US-Ukraine Foundation, which she co-founded to support democratic and free market development in newly-independent Ukraine. Before moving to Ukraine, Kateryna held positions at the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Department of Treasury, The White House, State Department, and…
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Emir Suljagić
Emir Suljagić is a journalist, activist and the Director of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial since 2019. Suljagić holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg. His most recent research focuses on the role the Bosnian Serb Assembly played in the process of socially constructing Bosniaks as “Turks” within the context of the…
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Natasa Kandic
Biography: In 1991 the cessation of Slovenia triggered the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia into the republics of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Kosovo. Led by the ethnic cleansing policies of Croatian dictator Tudjman and the Serbian Milosevic, efforts to consolidate territory along ethnic lines were systematized and enforced, using concentration camps,…
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Oscar Arias Sánchez
Interview With Kerry Kennedy Three billion people live in tragic poverty, and forty thousand children die each day from diseases that could be prevented. In a world that presents such a dramatic struggle between life and death, the decisions we make about how to conduct our lives, about the kind of people we want to…
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Samuel Kofi Woods
Biography: Founding director of the foremost human rights organization in Liberia, the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, Sam Woods managed on a shoestring budget to write and distribute to the international community reliable reports of abuses in the midst of a brutal civil war. His work led to the liberation of more than fifty inmates…
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Bobby Muller
Biography: In 1969, Lieutenant Bobby Muller led an assault up a hill in Vietnam until a bullet hit his back and severed his spinal cord. Miraculously, Muller survived. But the real misery didn’t begin until Muller returned to the United States and was confined to a decrepit veteran’s hospital. During his first year, eight people…
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Raji Sourani
Biography: Raji Sourani is Gaza’s foremost human rights lawyer, and the founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and former director of the Gaza Center for Rights and Law. In the 1980s, Sourani was widely recognized for his effective defense of Palestinians before the Israeli military courts. In connection with his defense…
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RFKHR Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza
Tags Share We are deeply alarmed by the mounting death tolls in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Our thoughts go out to all those affected by the bloodshed. Israeli forces & Palestinian armed groups must protect civilian lives and cease all hostilities to avoid further death and destruction.
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Kateryna Yushchenko on “war fatigue,” ongoing peace agreements, and Ukrainian perseverance
Tags Share We in Ukraine continue to be angry, worried, sad and tired, but, as before, hopeful. Angry because the death and destruction continues. The Russians are targeting port facilities, thus limiting grain shipments and exacerbating the world food crisis, especially in Africa and the Middle East. They continue to target schools and hospitals, and…
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Plea For A New Int’l Tribunal For Russia’s Crime Of Aggression
Tags Share By Olga Kostina The International Bar Association — the world’s leading organization for international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies — adopted a resolution in late May condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urging United Nations member states to support the creation of a special international criminal tribunal to prosecute leaders of…
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