Understanding the meaning of ‘shell-shocked’ in a context of war, conflict and gross human rights violations often allows us to negotiate with a complex of emotions and stories that move beyond journalistic ethos of ‘obje...
“Fasting is meaningful in every culture, and is specifically important to both Jews and Arabs. Fasting is a deep, emotional statement of self-restraint, determination and introspection. It is a sign of strength, a reminder of...
At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
Dr Dharanidhar Das was my parents’ classmate in high school. A shy, quiet, intelligent man who spent more time with his poetry than his medical books. This man was the leprosy doctor in Juluki in the village of Barama, invol...
In a fifteen-minute long speech delivered on Tuesday evening, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that Colombia’s Armed Forces shall stop their bombing operations against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) f...
Successful peacebuilding depends on involving young people. Governments, international organisations and NGOs often focus on how young people are endangered by armed conflict and are at risk of taking up arms in future violence...
In an unfolding tragic tale of twists and turns, the Syrian conflict has transmuted from that of a show of solidarity for the Arab Spring in 2011 to that of a continuous conflagrative self-destruction perpetrated by several arm...
For the first time in a half-century-long conflict, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) agreed on 20 December 2014 to a unilateral and indefinite ceasefire.
Around the end of last month, London’s Somerset House exhibited an array of photographs of young British servicemen and women who have sustained severe wounds in a collection by Bryan Adams, named “Wounded: The Lega...