Category: Reporter’s Notebook
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Upcoming: The Lost Generation
The story of our generation will be penned in war’s shadow: The Lost Generation [Starting May 2014].
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Medical science and the war against terrorism
This week on Beacon, I use Boko Haram as a test case for re-thinking the fight against terrorism.
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CAR Update: Violence continues, president steps down
The president of the strife-torn Central African Republic quit under pressure on Friday after regional leaders held him responsible for failing to halt the continuing sectarian violence in the country. Full report via The New York Times
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Favorite reads from The Paris Review
A handful of our favorites: Foxing Quarterly, n+1, The White Review (founded by a former Paris Review intern), The New York Review of Books, The Public Domain Review, The New York Tyrant, to name just a few. Via Reddit
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Forgotten framework?
In 2003, Richard J. Norton published a journal article in the Naval War College Review which dealt with security challenges in complex urban environments he defined as “feral cities”. But what happened next?
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Stranded in Istanbul: An update on Soccer’s Lost Boys
In January 2014, Jason Andrew’s work (and my text), on Nigerian soccer players stranded in Istanbul, will be published in LFI Magazine —an imprint run by Leica.
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In the field: New York, NY
Onlookers take photographs of seven F/A Hornets from the U.S. Military as they fly along the Hudson River in the vicinity of One World Trade Center and the Tappan Zee Bridge on December 13, 2013.
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Latest: Boko Haram on Beacon
My latest piece, the first in a series of three, addresses Boko Haram’s evolution (and persistence) in Nigeria. Full article on Beacon.
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What I’m reading…
With higher numbers of displaced people fleeing to the DRC and Cameroon, continued inter-ethnic conflict, and a rise in criminal opportunism, the CAR is on the verge of unraveling. Oh, and Nigeria’s newly designated terrorist organization, Boko Haram, might join the mix. Important read on The Central African Republic and a timely article, given my…
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Updates: What’s Next on Beacon
While I’ll be traveling back to Canada this week, I wanted to preview my next post on Beacon. (For those who don’t know, I joined the new platform last week.) I recently wrote about the future of American operations on the African continent, but my next piece will look at the simmering insurgency of Nigeria’s Northern…
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