Posts Tagged ‘ conflict ’

Only Near Death Experiences

Only Near Death Experiences

December 17, 2011

My Malev-Hungarian airlines flights on the way back from Kosovo were heavily delayed, which seems like standard practice with that company. We are in what is supposed to be the last 30 minutes of this return flight to Amsterdam, its evening so there is nothing to be seen...

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ctrp401 Tackling the Big Issues in Kosovo

ctrp401 Tackling the Big Issues in Kosovo

November 29, 2011

Unrecognized by many countries, unable to secure their borders, a struggling economy in a world already in crisis- the laundry list of problems that Kosovo faces can easily be called daunting.  But in the face of so much adversity there are some exciting things happening and one source of...

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Remembering a Defiant Old Woman

Remembering a Defiant Old Woman

November 22, 2011

Hanna Braun. In early 2006 this name was recommended to me by an enthusiastic listener who said something to the effect of "you should really interview her." I did some reading and learned a bit about who Hanna Braun was, an stubborn old lady who had grown up in...

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Fresh Wounds

Fresh Wounds

June 11, 2011

"It is hard to speak without any emotion about a conflict when you live it," a great new friend and journalist explains to me as we drive across busy Tbilisi on a Friday night.  "I can talk about Kosovo, Iraq, without getting emotional, but this... its so complicated and...

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ctrp373 A Tale of Two Presidents, Ivory Coast

ctrp373 A Tale of Two Presidents, Ivory Coast

March 31, 2011

Citizenreporter.org's West Africa correspondant isn't too keen on walking the streets of Abidjan these days and she has to watch what she says, as the country is sharply divided by a political standoff. The standoff is between two presidents and their supporters. One the incumbent with his own...

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