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  • Peace is an act, not a state of being

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    The question of peace has haunted me ever since I was a teenager. This is hardly surprising because I, like many of my fellow citizens, spent my adolescence during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, witnessing and experiencing many of the horrors which the rest of the world saw second-hand through the […]

  • Tasa de homicidios por municipio en el Triángulo Norte durante 2011

    La paz como insulto

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    Abstract:  In Central America,  we can rarely determine what we should understand as “peace”. If it were to be understood only as the absence of war, then yes, we live in peace. However, given that Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala constitute the most violent micro-region in the world, can we […]

  • Olympic Rings

    Hope You’re Ready

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    For those of us who can only imagine a time other than the current era, the present may seem like a terrible time, but in fact it isn’t so. “The history of humanity is a horror story,” says Rémy, the typical disillusioned communist professor in love with degenerate life, from […]

  • Uganda’s Quest for Peace and Joseph Kony

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    Is peace between individuals and societies possible, or is conflict simply a part of human nature? Does it differ from culture to culture, religion to religion, nation to nation? All human history is punctuated by conflict and endless struggle for peaceful coexistence. Even before the American Revolution in 1777 to […]

  • We all “speak” the language of peace

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    “In a sense it’s strange that humanity didn’t turn out even worse…that our goals are sometimes unrealistic and that we have to live with frustration is bad enough..” – Johan Galtung. Galtung one of the foremost theorists in peace and conflict studies, I believe hits the nail on the head. […]