Hard Power/Soft Power: Peacebuilding at the Pentagon

Discussion of the new Peacebuilding mandate of the US military:

http://www.aworldofpossibilities.com/details.cfm?id=325

Chaos and massacres overwhelm NE Congo

Congo

Murder, muddle and panic
Nov 6th 2008 | KINSHASA
From The Economist print edition

As chaos and massacres overwhelm north-eastern Congo, diplomats and peacekeepers are struggling to get a grip

AP
“THE situation is catastrophic,” says a Red Cross man. “There’s no other word.” Tens of thousands of terrified civilians are jamming the roads of Congo’s North Kivu province in a frantic southbound exodus in the hope of self-preservation (see map). General Laurent Nkunda’s mainly Tutsi rebels are poised to grab the eastern city of Goma after capturing most of the smaller towns in the area. Reports of massacres on the night of November 5th in Kiwanja, a small town north of Goma, have increased the panic. An officer in General Nkunda’s force said that his men had “neutralised” men in civilian clothes there who, he said, covertly belonged to the so-called Mai-Mai militias; they, along with the Congolese army and others, have been fighting the Tutsi rebels. A local clergyman said at least 180 civilians had been killed during the night.

http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12573363

10 Lessons of Occupation

http://fora.tv/2008/09/24/Lydia_Khalil-Iraq_Afghanistan_A_Comparative_View

Critical Terrorism Studies

ABC Radio National - The Religion Report

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2008/2366575.htm#transcript

Food Force

http://www.food-force.com/

Feed the refugees and rebuild the country.

A Force More Powerful

Run your own nonviolent insurrection.

http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/game/index.php

Gapminder

http://www.gapminder.org/