Talking Rights

The 1998 Good Friday agreement, which provided the blueprint for a peaceful resolution to a decades-old conflict, has meant an end to the daily killings that used to define life in Northern Ireland. But the fighting persists in different ways, most visibly through the outdoor murals maintained in many neighborhoods.
In Catholic neighborhoods, murals celebrate the [...]

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I’m in Northern Ireland this week, lookign at issues of truth, reconciliation and how (or if) to memorialize the past. As with any conflict, this one has its volcabulary (nationalist, UVF, the Troubles, etc.) and its touchstone events, like Bloody Sunday or the 1998 Good Friday agreement, which has led to a kind of tense [...]

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A student led me to this very good video by Fall Out Boy on the plight of children harmed by war in northern Uganda. Filmed in Uganda, the video supports Invisible Children, a non-profit started by American film students and including a Ugandan staff.
Although there is currently a truce between the government and Lord’s Resistance [...]

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