Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
How many people died in the Bosnian genocide?Tension in the Balkans:Shortly after World War II ended, several states in the Balkans formed the People's Republic of Yugoslavia. In the early 1990s nationalism was on the rise and countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia were able to ...
Bryan Bell begins speaking: There was a lecture at the school of public health by a gentleman named Paul Farmer. Paul Farmer was talking about converting military bases in Rwanda to hospitals. And this was just after the genocide and the military had been implicated in that as well....
The argument for optimismhas some awfully good evidence in Rwanda. A quarter-century after a genocide tore the already poor East African country apart, Rwanda is a case study in what’s possible. Led by physician Agnes Binagwaho, the nation’s former health minister, and others, Rwanda ha...
What has caused violence in Rwanda and Burundi? When did Gitega become the capital of Burundi? When did the Burundi genocide end? How long was Homo neanderthalensis dominant in Eurasia? Was Burundi a colony to another nation? Is Burundi landlocked? Is Burundi a country? How long was Jane Goo...
”Footnote167The Burundi Government also admitted to being inspired by Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, whose party had forced the U.N. Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) to leave after it failed to prevent the 1994 Rwandan genocide and, subsequently, expelled international actors, “re...
Douglas 13 9 8 N. Paulo, J. C. Bublitz invokes problems such as world poverty, climate change and war (Douglas 2008, 230) or alludes to the "Nazi's Final Solution, Mao's Cultural Revolution, and recent genocide in Rwanda and the Balkans" (Douglas 2013, 160). Well, how ...
“your presence is also a powerful message to the perpetrators that the crime will not go unpunished forever.” over the next few days, sophie combined governmental meetings about gender violence with in-person engagements. on october 5, she visited the kigali genocide memorial in rwanda to ...
According to Tripp’sresearch, African countries that ended conflicts after 1985 have almost twice the number of women in Parliament than African countries where recent conflicts have not occurred. In Rwanda, Kagame, who had led the forces that fought back against the genocide, took over as ...
awful civil war from ’92 to ’95 and then Rwanda in ’94, where there was the world’s worst genocide since the Holocaust. And I think it was hard to report on those two crises, conflicts, atrocities, nightmares, without losing faith in humanity, actually. ...