Emmanuel Jal: A Child Of War, a Voice of Peace
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Short dreadlocks, stylishly askew, frame Emmanuel Jal's face, aglow with a sheen as brown and smooth as coffee beans.
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For more than 20 years, it&#39;s been one of the world&#39;s forgotten wars. Some 2 million people have died, yet it&#39;s received relatively scant global attention.
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The case of the youngest detainee at GuantÃ¡namo Bay has implications as large as the growing ranks of child soldiers worldwide.
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HUAMBO, Angola -- Manuel Faustino Gomes, 15, lost both his parents during Angola's long civil war and spent years as a child of the streets, scrambling to survive in this battered city.
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To inspire a new generation of peace activists, educators are turning to such figures as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Costa Rica President Oscar Arias and the Dalai Lama.
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The secretary general of the United Nations fights a war on many fronts in his crusade to bring human rights and peace to the world.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - On one of the more hopeful days in a long time for ending Sudan&#39;s dreadful cycle of violence, the man who has spent the past three years trying to broker a peace was voicing cautious optimism that maybe this was the time.
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The Christian Science Monitor - If Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost popularity on the world stage because of the Iraq war, no one has told Sierra Leoneans. Earlier this week, Mr. Blair was greeted as a hero and crowned a paramount chief of the West African state rescued from civil war by British troops in 2000.
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In a marker of the Iraq warâs longevity, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.
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Valls was quoted as saying "many thanked the pope for all that he said about peace in the world, above all on the subject of preventive war." In the run-up to the U.S.-led Iraq war, John Paul spoke out ...
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It&#39;s been almost a week since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died. With constant conflict in the Middle East , some wonder if Arafat&#39;s death will bring about peace in his former home.
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It was the marching that got him. Soldiers thump-thump-thumped in unison across the pavement. To the child, then no more than eight years old, solidity flowed from their boots. They infected him with an awe that, even after the span of a decade and the encroachment of a war, has not darkened.
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Aung San Suu Kyi turned 61 on Monday, alone and under house arrest. The pro-democracy leader, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent work, has spent 10 of the last 17 years in confinement.
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There is no doubt that we are in a time of chaos in the world. Wars and genocide are as prevalent as ever.     Misery and suffering are on every continent of the globe we call earth. The world is currently focused on the 'War In Iraq' and the problem of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea but the sad fact is threats to world peace are as prevalent as ever in spite of the efforts of the UN.    Where do we turn? Our respective governments? Grassroots support? Does genocide on the African continent for example even matter?    It is not unreasonable to look to the United Nations for understanding and problem resolution. Presumably, we expect it to be an unbiased and peace loving organization. Yet at closer examination one begins to realize the fact that the United Nations has been a total failure in terms of world peace. Rarely has the UN brought enough countries together to form an alliance to intervene meaningfully in the affairs of an oppressive and brutal country.    With the exception of the World Health Organization little good has come from the peace making mission of the U.N. I suggest the UN go to what it does best. With its world standing already established, the UN should focus on research, education and health, the missions it does best.
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Wagari Maathai, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, has long fought&#151;and sometimes suffered&#151;to protect the environment and human rights in Africa. A journalist recalls an encounter with the Kenyan 13 years ago.
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Chicago Tribune - Gabriel Boul, a Sudanese refugee who was torn from his family at the age of 7, clung to life for more than a month, fueled by the hope that he would see his mother again. He died last week surrounded by friends, but the person he most wanted there never came.
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Yasser Arafat was a terrorist and a peacemaker, an imperfect visionary who served as father to an unborn nation. An impish man with a perpetual stubble and a protruding lower lip, he was