topic: violence

Two years ago, prospects for peace between El Salvador’s gangs seemed good. In May 2012, MS-13 and MS-18 agreed to a peace pact brokered by...

The Kashmir valley experienced a painful, ultimately unsuccessful armed movement for self-determination against Indian rule from 1988-2002...

Drug violence in Mexico has been raging now for nearly a decade. Approximately 80,000 people have been killed, but news hardly reaches the...

“Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans...

Audiences will notice that the most striking aspect of Nagieb Khaja's new film, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone , is how...

veruska-6.jpg In early 2000, Gustavo Germano began assembling a photographic series called Absences (Ausencias) , a project envisioned as a...

AUG 23rd, 2013: Zimbabwe’s nationwide elections passed without bloodshed last month, but they were not free from controversy. On July 29,...

As is the case with all long wars that take place far from home, we’ve grown bored of Iraq, the epicenter of media attention during the...