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After U.S. and Afghan troops toppled the Taliban in 2001, Afzal teamed up with McNeill, who, as a hobby from his relief work, helped restore golf courses in war-ravaged Rwanda and Georgia. "I thought we should leave a few of the rusted tanks and missile launchers out there on the fairways as a testament to history," McNeill says, "but Afzal said, 'No, it's time for a new chapter.'" Afzal cleared away land mines by borrowing a flock of sheep from a nomad and setting them loose on the course. A few were blown up, but Afzal's philosophy...
...encouraged analysis of the current state of genocide-related law. The piece combined a wide variety of inputs—including excerpts from music pieces, recorded speeches, and even live narration with a series of danced vignettes that loosely traced the history of genocide from the Holocaust to Rwanda to, literally, today’s news. Impassioned solos that explored large-scale rape, the search for forensic evidence of genocide, and the emotional experience of the judge who presided over the Nuremberg trials were subtle reminders of the range of personal experiences of those touched by genocide. This range...
...team was assigned--an abandoned hospital in a rural province with a population of 340,000 and no doctors--is drawing patients from miles around--women in brightly colored skirts, men in tattered work clothes and children in whatever happens to fit. (It's not unusual in rural Rwanda to see what appears to be a 5-year-old girl in a ruffled dress and discover when she squats down that...
Partners in Health began enrolling AIDS patients in Rwanda in June and by last month was treating more than 300 with ARVs. It is on track to reach 1,000 by next spring--but that's just a fraction of the estimated 250,000 HIV-positive Rwandans who need food, housing, clean water and schools as well as medicine. The Global Fund subsidizes the drugs, but donors are reluctant to pay for the calories, arguing that food aid is never-ending and "unsustainable." Farmer, ever the optimist, is undismayed. "You start down this slippery slope," he says...
...respecting pluralism was essential and that a public philosophy “that engages differences” is preferable to one that “floats above moral and religious differences.” He cited the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Gacaca tribunals in South Africa and Rwanda as examples of successful efforts to reconcile communal differences in society. Sandel’s discussion of creating a progressive public philosophy received supportive reviews from members of the audience. “What appealed to me was creating a narrative to support our Democratic policies,” said...