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|  | | In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 6
Volume 6 of the highly-regarded series, now with 120 additional pages and loads of award-winning writers from around the globe. The book series that defines a generation, the generation born since 1960, defining its unique place in history through its own voices.
Some things are connected with certain experiences which appear trivial yet are so fundamental that they cannot be explained. They are too subtle to be compared to anything. There is nothing for thought or imagination to cling to. Yet they are more real than anything that we can see, taste, hear, smell or feel. Although they encompass the senses they cannot be identified with any of them. | |  | | Letters to Gabriella: Angola's Last War for Peace, What the UN Did and Why
An account of the Angolan civil war from the authors own first hand experiences as seen from the perspective of corruption within the United Nations system that was supposed to provide assistance.
Why is War Thought? Why is War Fought?
This section, does not really belong here or anywhere else in this story but the author feels himself confronted with an issue important enough to justify in some way or another without, if it can be helped, going into unnecessarily long and complex explanations. To understand how to run development projects in or after a war, one has to understand what wars are all about. Yet it is not a line of argument that reduces neatly down to a few basic principles, but by dealing with only the most basic of issues we may come up with something reasonable. For |
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