Tag: conflict
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Aren’t we all human?
I thought about the best way to start this post, to be honest, as the subject seems to have sparkled controversy everywhere.
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Do you feel safe?
Terrorism. If you check on Wikipedia, it is defined as (…) violent acts (or the threat of violent acts) intended to create fear (terror), perpetrated for an economic, religious, political, or ideological…
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The day that everything changed
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13 years ago something changed in the world. I remember arriving home (in Portugal) to have lunch and seeing the images of the attacks in the Pentagon and the World…
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Your ecological footprint – what?!
I could start with the typical “save the earth, it is the only we have”, which is completely true, but I will start to tell you that we, as humans…
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First World War centenary and the state of the world
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This morning I had a conversation about the state of the world. It is something that has been on my mind for quite some time, as the number of conflicts keeps…
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The way life isn’t supposed to be in Israel and Palestine
It took me about 30 minutes to decide how to start this post. I was not having a creative blocking or anything alike, because I knew what I wanted to…
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20 years since Rwanda: What did we learn?
Well, nothing really. People are still killing each other, and it seems that is going to stay like that for a while. Or perhaps we did learn something: how to…
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People are not numbers
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I’m going to start this post saying that one refugee is already too many. No one should be obliged to run from his country. Yesterday, 20th of June, it was…
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Water is the driving force of all nature – Leonardo Da Vinci
So…Water issues. Quite a big deal. I’m writing my master’s degree thesis and it regards water issues and the Israeli-Arab conflict. My argument is that when together with other factors,…
