Int’l Development Expert |Human Rights and TJ Scholar | 🌏Traveler| Author of “Frozen Justice:Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Failed Transitional Justice”
There are a lot of terrible things happening in our world, but if you're reading this, I want you to keep your head up. Everyone can make a positive difference in this world, no matter how small, when they lead with generosity, integrity, and justice in their minds and hearts.
"Countries that have for years resisted taking in refugees from wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are now opening their doors to Ukrainians." “It’s hard not to see that Ukrainians are white, mostly Christian and Europeans," said one professor.
https://t.co/Yb2eyKdocl
A widely ratified treaty bans cluster munitions as indiscriminate weapons that pose a widespread and long-lasting threat to civilians. Russia just used one, hitting near a hospital, killing 4 civilians & injuring another 10, six of them healthcare workers. https://t.co/CPVJmK4ReY
Remember the Holocaust and the people taken from us. Never forget how it came to be: little by little...hateful rhetoric, fear-mongering, visible designations of discrimination, white supremacist ideology...all festering until reality reflected rhetoric... #HolocaustMemorialDay
Daddy,
You’re not here to celebrate your 93rd birthday today, but you left us with so much wisdom, love and purpose to carry forward.
Thank you.
I love you.
I miss you.
Every day is #MLKDay to me.
❤️
I’m happy to announce that I will be a Visiting Research Fellow (Non-Resident) at Western University’s Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Resolution
#transitionaljustice#TruthBeTold#reconciliation
“For me, Auschwitz was just a railway station.”
#FranzNovak 1913-1983, the icy young SS Hauptsturmführer who organized those trains, quoted from his 1964 trial on an @auschwitzxhibit wall, putting the banal in #TheBanalityOfEvil.
@DavidVonDrehle https://t.co/rH31bQ2OMz
June 5 is the 40th anniversary of the first report of AIDS in San Francisco. We use this moment to look back at how far we've come and how far we've yet to go.
https://t.co/SKRxSsBpS7
Memorial Day (Thread)
Memorial Day, formally known as Decoration Day, was originally started by a group of African Americans.
The holiday was initially an event held by newly liberated Black people in Charleston, South Carolina.
#MemorialDay
I’m happy to have been invited to discuss conflict transformation, especially at such a pivotal time when our world needs it!
#Peace#conflict#HumanRights#reconciliation