UN peace operations are increasingly asked to pursue stabilization mandates with lofty expectations of being able to stabilize conflict zones, achieve national reconciliation, and rebuild state legitimacy.  Meer

UN peace operations are increasingly asked to pursue stabilization mandates with lofty expectations of being able to stabilize conflict zones, achieve national reconciliation, and rebuild state legitimacy.  Meer

Dokumentarische Filme aller Genres in TV, Kino und Netz entfalten ihre informative Kraft erst dann, wenn sie dramaturgisch als Erzählungen strukturiert sind, nicht als Aufzählungen.  Meer

Sir Henry Alexander Wickham (1846–1928) is remembered for his role in bringing the seeds of the rubber tree in 1876 from Brazil to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where seedlings were successfully cultivated and then sent to Asia for the establishment of commercial plantations.  Meer

Leu Pedro groeit op in Kipanda Bunga, een dorp in het noorden van Angola waar nog de oude stamstructuren gelden. Overal is familie: oom Leu Ukani, de rondreizende prediker; oom Carvalho, die door de rebellen verlamd is geschoten; Leu’s mythische opa, die jachtkunstenaar is en vijftien vrouwen heeft; Tungu Nzaxi, zijn veeleisende vader, die wil dat Leu naar de middelbare school gaat, ook al moet hij daar honderd kilometer voor lopen; Mama Fineza, zijn liefdevolle moeder, die hem wijsheid leert.  Meer

Despite our stereotypical ideas on photographic images as a snapshots (slices of time), photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: time can be directly represented within the image, it can be its theme and philosophical horizon, but it can also represent the global framework in which photographic practices develop and change through time.  Meer