"Making a Difference": NBC Nightly News spotlights Vital Voices, ECI
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At 100 hours, momentum continues to build
March 02, 2010
Hour 100 came and went today with dozens of activists braving sub-freezing temperatures to sustain their 24/7 stand outside Senator Tom Coburn’s office in Oklahoma City, caling on the Senator…
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Water: A matter of life and death
March 02, 2010
When my colleague Melanie Teff and I visited Upper Nile and Southern Kordofan states a few weeks ago, we spent a lot of time hearing and talking about water. Sudan had been experiencing a drought,…
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“Elections Season” in Juba
March 02, 2010
“JUBA” , “Southern Sudan” – Campaigning for Sudan’s upcoming elections kicked off on February 13, but due to the funding challenges that many opposition parties face – and the…
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Global Nonkilling Working Papers Released
March 02, 2010
March 2010. The first two issues of the Global Nonkilling Working Papers series have been released, featuring a debate between renown primatologists Richard Wrangham and Robert Sussman…
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives first public remarks on LRA violence
March 01, 2010
On Thursday in a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her first public remarks regarding…
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Celebrating International Women’s Day – Every Day this Month
March 01, 2010
As we at the Save Darfur Coalition prepare to celebrate International Women’s Day by holding events and advocating for greater protection and rights, our partners around the world are doing…
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U.S. Increasing Ability to Prevent Mass Atrocities?
March 01, 2010
Writing in Foreign Policy last week, Michael Abramowitz of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Lawrence Woocher of the U.S. Institute of Peace,…
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A Light at the End of the Tunnel in Congo
March 01, 2010
This post originally appeared on Foreign Policy .
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is not an obvious candidate to be Africa’s turnaround story of the…
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SIPA Volunteers Take Lead on Ushahidi-Chile
February 28, 2010
Our dedicated team of volunteers have mapped over 100 reports including many pictures, and this less than 48 hours after the deployment of the Ushahidi-Chile platform. During this time, I worked…
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"From the Trampled Grass" Post III: Slowly but steadily, peace takes root in northern Uganda
February 28, 2010
_This is the third post in a series of reflections from Paul Ronan, Director of Advocacy for Resolve Uganda, as he travels for two months in Uganda, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and…
