topic: child soldiers

ICC Justice and the Trial Narrative
January 17, 2017
“This trial is about the violence and misery that blighted the lives of millions of people living in northern Uganda.” This was how Chief...
blog
On Beasts of No Nation and hegemonic black masculinity
October 27, 2015
Beasts of No Nation poses some complicated questions about Hollywood’s treatment of black masculinity. While the movie based on the 2005...
blog
Today in History: Iran-Iraq War begins 35 years ago
September 22, 2015
Today marks thirty-five years since the start of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted eight years, the longest conventional war of the twentieth...
Reportage
Not a Click Away: Joseph Kony in the Real World
March 12, 2012
In 2006, I flew with a group of journalists and United Nations officials to a remote village in Garamba National Park in eastern Congo,...
Opinion
Hollywood, Pirated Videos, and Child Soldiers
November 2, 2011
It is one thing to be prepared intellectually for violence, but it is quite another to experience the real thing in the form of a gun...
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