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Scars of War Remain in Uganda
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- March 17, 2012
The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, March 13, 2012. By coincidence, I was in Pader, northern Uganda, last week when the video about the murderous warlord Joseph Kony, called Kony 2012, went viral. The video has ignited controversy concerning the motives and methods of those behind the populist campaign to see him
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Forward — to the Past? Re-thinking a Human Rights Museum
- Analysis
- March 15, 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No.17, March 2012. By DAVID PETRASEK, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. The Canadian Museum of Human Rights has set itself a sound objective: to challenge and equip visitors actively to promote human freedom and well-being. The Museum will fail to meet this objective, however, if it is overly historical in its
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R2P Is Not a License for Military Recklessness
- Analysis
- March 12, 2012
In the New York Times last week, Tufts University’s Alex de Waal penned an op-ed that scathingly criticized the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine and a group of people he calls “idealists.” In the article, he identified only two members of this group: Gareth Evans (a former Australian foreign minister who co-chaired the commission that
READ MOREIn Defense of Invisible Children
- Analysis
- March 12, 2012
The critics of the Invisible Children video have argued that the viral video, which astoundingly has had more than 36 million hits on YouTube, is overstating the importance of this now much-diminished group of thugs called the Lord’s Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony. The aim of the video is to make Kony world famous
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