Thanks. I'm probably heading out to Goma in a couple of weeks -- my first job in a conflict zone. All your posts are so interesting...
Very insightful piece.
(It's not a traveling song; it's an activist song. I got confused by the post!)
"Margaret and Pauline" by Neko Case.
Actually, everything by Neko Case.
Safe travels!
Uganda's above Sri Lanka??? This is a very odd list. No Eritrea? I think I am being cheated out of my points.
Isn't it hard to tell whether or not the situation has detoriorated or not -- and/or to what extend it has/is deteriorating? Whether a cholera epidemic is creeping upon us or not? The G13 included several of the largest agencies working in Darfur & the ability to monitor the situation is now incredibly hobbled...
Before getting my MA in Conflict Transformation, once, a long long time ago (five years this June!), I was an English major. You mean Tolstoy, not Dostoyevsky... ;)