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To Hopeland and Back The 18th voyage (Day 4-5)

Day Four. Monday, 11 April 2016 Peace is the fruit of love. To grow love requires hard work. It can also bring pain because it...

To Hopeland and Back The 18th voyage (Day 3)

Third Day. Saturday, 10 April 2016 A mill does not run with the water that is past. Louis L’Amour, (1915-1985) The Walking Drum The most famous of...

To Hopeland and Back The 18th voyage (Day 2)

Day Two. Friday, 9 April 2016 People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish political philosopher Heho,...

To Hopeland and Back: The 18th voyage

I was in Burma/Myanmar, 8-12 April, the first time there for a very personal reason: reunion with my relatives, far and near, known and...

BURMA’S POLITICAL TUG OF WAR: Democratic bullying, military reinforcement, political prisoners and diplomatic overtures

A lot of people were quite astonished at the speedy undertakings of Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy (NLD) Chairwoman, for...

Learning to share: Conference on insider peace builders

Day Four. Saturday, 1 April 2016 Preventing war is the work of the politicians. Establishing peace is the work of educationists. Maria Montessori (1870-1952), Italian physician and...

Bridging conceptual differences vital to end ethnic conflict

While the first move of Aung San Suu Kyi has been to form a national reconciliation government, followed by restructuring, streamlining and planning so...

Learning to share: Conference on insider peace builders Day Three

Learning to share: Conference on  insider peace builders Day Three. Thursday, 31 March 2016 Peacemaking involves stopping an ongoing conflict, whereas peacebuilding happens before a conflict...

Learning to share: Conference on insider peace builders Day Two

Learning to share: Conference on insider peace builders Day Two. Wednesday, 30 March 2016 Peacebuilding is an intervention that is designed to prevent the start or...

Learning to share: Conference on insider peace builders

Peacemaking is about peaceful, diplomatic and judicial means of resolving disputes. From Chapter 6 of UN Charter, insightonconflict.org From 29 March -1 April, I was in...

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