Burundi Song Tradition
Integrating Track One and Track Two Approaches to International Conflict Resolution: What's Working? What's Not? How Can We Do Better?
But they still had to meet outside the village, because they feared that their parents and the elders would be upset. But still, they were excited and wanted to come together. And I just want to tell a nice little story about one of the trips that this group took together, because they would meet and then go someplace. They were on a bus -- this was after they had been working together for some months. And every -- during the war every militia had its own radio station which had its own theme song, which sang the praises of the militia leader. So the youth, the Christians and the Druse each brought a tape which had that song, the Christians and the Druse. So they decided to play them for each other, and they did. And then, for example, the Druse would sing along with their song, and the Christians just sat there and looked and didn't know what to do. And then the Christians did the same thing. And then the Druse said, You know, it's interesting because we listen to your song, and for u ... [Read More]
Remarks at the University of Witwatersrand
The United States will continue to work with our African friends to ease the suffering. We will continue to build on America's proud tradition of leadership in meeting the needs of the world's refugees and displaced. So that humanitarian crises can be prevented and not just relieved, we place great importance on addressing the underlying causes of conflict: poverty, inequality, intolerance, weak civil society, bad governance. We will redouble our efforts within the international community to curb trade, which fuels violence, such as trafficking in conflict diamonds and weapons. We must all do more to heal war-torn societies so that violence does not recur. ... [Read More]
Africa
To address Togo's entrenched traditional views on women's rights and protection of children, the Embassy devoted DHRF money to a women's rights campaign directed at traditional rulers and notables in rural areas. Another campaign stressed the importance of women's literacy. Through DHRF, the Embassy printed and distributed 5,000 copies of a comic book promoting child welfare, followed by roundtables on child-welfare issues in selected schools. The Public Affairs Section issued small grants to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and government agencies to promote female literacy, health and equal opportunity. ... [Read More]
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The GRC’s response to my personal message to Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai, informing him that we had decided to modify our draft resolution to specify that the Security Council seat go to Peking, was about as favorable as we had hoped. On September 10, Foreign Minister Chow handed our Ambassador a formal written response which called the decision "particularly regrettable" and reiterated the traditional position of the GRC: to admit the Chinese Communists to the UN would violate the Charter. The moment such a resolution was tabled, his government would have to issue a public statement objecting to it in the strongest terms. The GRC would continue to object, moreover, as required by the occasion. /3/ ... [Read More]
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