April 08, 2005

Catholics and peacemaking

To mark the passing of Pope John Paul II, I want to pay tribute to the work much of the Catholic church did under his leadership in the field of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:38 PM | Fulltext link (11 comments)

June 30, 2003

Photos from Chiboene, Mozambique

Regular readers of JWN will recall that back at the end of April, in Mozambique, my daughter/research assistant Leila Rached and local research associates Salomao Mungoi and Alfiado Zunguza and...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:35 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

May 03, 2003

REMEMBERING PAST ATROCITIES, IN MOZAMBIQUE AND SOUTH AFRICA:

REMEMBERING PAST ATROCITIES, IN MOZAMBIQUE AND SOUTH AFRICA: I'm writing this, on Saturday May 3, sitting in the lovely home of our friends Shirley Pendlebury and Harold Annegaarn, in Johannesburg....
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April 29, 2003

FINDING FRELIMO:

FINDING FRELIMO: Yesterday morning (Monday), Leila and I had a really good discussion with Afiado Zunguza, the Mozambican head of a conflict-resolution capacity-building organization called Justapaz. In the afternoon, we...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:20 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

April 27, 2003

FORMER COMBATANTS WORKING TOGETHER, AND A CHURCH SERVICE:

FORMER COMBATANTS WORKING TOGETHER, AND A CHURCH SERVICE: Yesterday, we had a really interesting meeting with General Herminio Morais, the former head of Special Forces for Renamo who led the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:15 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

April 24, 2003

DISCUSSING ESCAPING FROM VIOLENCE, IN A SMALL TOWN IN MOZAMBIQUE:

DISCUSSING ESCAPING FROM VIOLENCE, IN A SMALL TOWN IN MOZAMBIQUE: Today, Leila, Salmao, and I drove out of Maputo to a small town called Bellavista, about 50 km to the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:55 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

April 22, 2003

EX-COMBATANT PEACE PROMOTERS, AND A CARDINAL

EX-COMBATANT PEACE PROMOTERS, AND A CARDINAL: The first two substantive days of the research here in Mozambique have been going very well. Plus, my new research assistant (and elder daughter)...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:34 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

April 20, 2003

MAPUTO AVENIDAS:

MAPUTO AVENIDAS: Overcast today, so I was able to go for a nice long walk this morning after the going-to-church plans fell through. I walked over to the lovely broad...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:28 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

April 19, 2003

TO MAPUTO:

TO MAPUTO: Yesterday, I woke up in a city-center hotel in Dar es-Salaam (the capital of Tanzania); I took the promised walk to and along the waterfront; did a bit...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:51 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

February 14, 2003

FROM NEW YORK, Valentine's Day

I've had a busy couple of days of work here, talking to some really interesting folks about my 'Violence and its Legacies' project, and starting to make plans for the...
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