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...Nations First International Children’s Parliament, doesn’t focus on the messy political situation that has led several African nations, including his native Sierra Leone, into intractable civil wars. Rather, his memoir is about understanding the dehumanizing process that leads armies of children to mutual slaughter??a goal made all the more important by the ongoing conflict in places like Darfur. Combining his self-professed skill for remembering images with his ability to build tension, Beah highlights the effects of a brutal civil war that left a mark on anyone it touched. A child...
Today 1.6 million members of the Fur, Masalit, Tunjur and Zaghawa ethnic groups—“those who have escaped slaughter??—are displaced and living in refugee camps on or near the Chad border, since their homes, villages, crops, livelihoods, loved ones, and futures have all been destroyed. On Friday the World Food Programme reported that because of the continuing janjaweed slaughter, 300,000 refugees (30 times the population of Cambridge) have now been cut off from any humanitarian aid whatsoever...
...professor speculated that Slaughter??a former Harvard Law School professor—might rejoin her husband, Professor of Government Andrew Moravcsik, in Cambridge...
...Slaughter??whose husband Andrew Moravcsik is a professor of government at Harvard and will join her as a visiting professor at Princeton next year—says Boston and New York offer comparable opportunities for two-career couples...
University President Lawrence H. Summers lauded Slaughter??s contributions to Harvard yesterday...