Denver-based Peace Jam Foundation has announced that one of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace, Liberian social worker, Lemah Gbowee, will visit Colorado in November. The announcement posted on the organization’s website stated, “Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee will presenting the 2012 Peace Jam Hero Award to Edie Lutnick and Ken…
After it was announced that Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi passed away Tuesday, August 21, news organizations around the world began to look at the legacy that Zenawi left behind for Ethiopia. Scanning through the websites for the BBC World Service, CNN, Bloomberg News and USA Today, for the most part, the analysis have…
There are many strange facts in this world that are best kept within the realm of fiction. Some of these facts even border on the ridiculous and they make you wonder whether even facts can be adjusted and thus, in extrapolation, the truth also. Americans often refer to things being fast; fast food restaurants aka McDonald,…
My wife and I traveled to Cameroon in April this year to visit friends that we had made on a trip in 2010. Being our second trip to Cameroon, we saw different aspects of the country than we had previously. The following is a brief description of how we perceived the cultural and political environment…
Discussion about a nation crippled by disease is not good news, but news reports about that nation overcoming the challenges posed by disease are welcome news. The news that the nation of Botswana is moving past the odds that were stacked against it just a decade ago is certainly encouraging to many around the world. National…
Derrick Hudson is a professor at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado “I am essentially exploring, at the moment, how South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan are going to divide the debt that they accumulated when they were one entity.” Hudson said. The country would have qualified for debt relief under the Heavily…
His full name is Kofi Atta Annan. Many of us have not reflected on or digested the role that he has played in international relations, diplomacy, and world affairs since he took over leadership at the United Nations almost nine years ago. We looked away out of a lack of interest in real leadership from people…