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Meet Madame Rosalie and learn how she plays a key role reducing tensions in her community affected by the Lord Army Resistance conflict.
Thomas Odora is one of five young people trained in the Gulu District of northern Uganda, to act as ‘youth monitors’ – helping to involve the community in recovery and development.
In August 2008, after years of missed opportunities to secure a lasting peace, Georgian-South Ossetian tensions erupted into all-out war. The war lasted a matter of days, but people like Tamar – director of the Akhalgori Youth School – will be picking up the pieces for decades.
Marina Elbakidze, a coordinator of Synergy, discusses the current situation for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Georgia and the way IDP issues have been presented in the Georgian media over the past four years.