What if all our schools required training in skilled, non-violent conflict resolution as a form of peace literacy and moral awareness for their students. Would that not be one of the most useful education skills for life that we could give them?
Human beings are still bought, owned and sold in the 21st century. Many of the reasons trace back to causes like poverty, corruption and inequality. But they also stem from something less discussed: war.
Vladimir Putin likes to talk about the second world war, Russia’s best war, but the closest parallel is probably the Crimean war, which dragged on for two and a half years, from 1853 to 1856, before the exhausted belligerents worked out a peace agreement.
At the close of the Civil War, people recently freed from slavery in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers. A battered U.S. was faced with the task of burying and honoring the 600,000 to 800,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who had died.
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Shirley Șerban played with the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah,' trying to find joy in the midst of sorrow. For all unwittingly caught in the conflict there and not forgetting victims of war and unrest around the world today.
The Times’s Visual Investigations team analyzed dozens of battlefield radio transmissions between Russian forces during an initial invasion of the town of Makariv, outside Kyiv. They reveal an army struggling with logistical problems and communication failures.
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