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Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

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When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

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I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

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I'm probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I'm part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way.

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Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

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Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa.

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Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

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Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

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When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.

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Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: March 21st, 1963

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