About me - Sojourner Ruth
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Aspiring Citizen Journalist. Background in media production; training in anthropology/ethnography and documentary photojournalism.
I am here because it's an inspirational place for a writer. I'm sure it will motivate me to write more.
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- Why has international intervention to stop the fighting in Darfur failed, and what policy alternatives might succeed?
- In a closed society like the military dictatorship of Burma, how can journalists find the truth?
- How should Lebanon address its "Palestinian issue" and what can the international community do to help?
- Will science and technology conquer water-related diseases?
- Is the Pakistani government helping or hindering the fight against terrorism?
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- Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center Is the accidental killing of civilians by US forces, in places like Somalia, an unavoidable part of the war on terrorism?
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To answer this question, I want first to challenge the notion of 'war' as applied to those acts and ideologies that we refer to as 'terrorism.' To discuss "the war on terrorism" as though this were an uncontroversial term is itself a polemical act that perpetuates a world-view. That world-view promotes the use of military force as a solution to the spread of ideologies.
We have to call into question the notion of a war on an 'ism, even though it seems natural to use the term war to describe our determination to overcome an evil. When, in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson proposed a "war on pove...
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