01 February 2005
REFLECTIONS
Step One to Remaking the World
COMMENTARIES
At the end of last year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) brought out a sobering report. For every child in the world today who enjoys the security of home, school, healthcare and regular meals, one does not.
LEAD STORY
Amina Dikedi tells Mary Lean about the people who give her hope for Africa.
PROFILE
When refugees poured in to Albania during the war in Kosovo, they set Ela Kaloshi on the road to forgiving. She talks to Bob Webb.
GUEST COLUMN
Questioning one’s ability to stay neutral, not knowing exactly the right thing to do next, feeling powerless to change the way things are—who amongst us in the field of peacemaking and conflict resolution has not had similar thoughts and experiences?
FAC ESSAY
Phil Evans exposes the scandal of international price cartels.
PEOPLE
Connected 2 (C2) courses are Open College Network accredited and put a particular emphasis on disengaged, so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ and ‘at risk’ 15- to 25-year-olds.
PEOPLE
Torabi (28) left Kabul in 1992, when he was 16, and fled with his whole family to Peshawar in Pakistan. Before their exile, his father had managed a hospital in Kabul.
TURNING POINT
Helena de von Arnim, from Colombia, believed that being abused as a child had condemned her to a lifetime of hate.
A DIFFERENT BEAT
Thousands of American families—and Canadian families too—offered to take in British children for the duration of the war.
FEATURES
Junaid Moosa took part in the latest Clean Africa Campaign leadership training programme in S Africa.
FEATURES
French photojournalist Isabelle Merminod visited Belarus to meet victims of the Chernobyl disaster who were not born when it took place.
NEWSDESK
OUEST FRANCE, France’s leading circulation daily, can attribute its success to its ethical policy, maintains Didier Pillet, its Editor-inChief.
REVIEWS
As a Christian married to a Muslim, Lorraine Khan finds inspiration in the books and life of Charis Waddy.
HAVE YOUR SAY
Human batteries are like a stream of water. If the water doesn’t move then it becomes stagnant. If the water flows out and nourishes other people then the batteries will work well and will be spontaneously recharged.
EAR TO THE GROUND
Luckily no-one was hurt except the poor moose.