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Post-conflict Reconstruction: Disarmament, Reconciliation, and Blogging?

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Global Voices blogged yesterday about a project funded by the State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, DOTCOM , and its recent progress. Reaching out to youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan, DOTCOM. Hopefully this project will be a success and can be replicated in the many conflict/post-conflict zones in the world.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

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It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. They wanted to share their stories on my blog and through video and photos. Here is their stories.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 23-29

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From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Kevin examines the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs' use of new media to empower youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan. In case you missed it, here's what we've had to say over the past week. Jim shows off a few more green gadgets from CES 2009.

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Africa Mentoring Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I saw this while I was busy mentoring for the Young Caucasus Women Blogging Project. The project is about: The African Mentoring Project was created as a way of encouraging and supporting Africans who want to start blogging. So, I immediately emailed Ore to volunteer as a mentor. which I had taken in the fall.

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I'm a mentor for the Young Caucasus Women's Project!

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I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen. Each week a blog ???mentor??? The week of February 27th, I will blog on the topic of: ??? Here's the project description from the site: Recruited from current FLEX.

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Mentoring Young Women Bloggers

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Beth Kanter posted information about an interesting youth mentoring opportunity on the www.netsquared.org blog recently. They are looking for bloggers from around the world to be blogging mentors for 1 week as part of the Young Caucasus Women project, a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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HRW is encouraging bloggers to use their blogs as a, "bully pulpit to stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, uphold basic freedoms, protect people from inhumane treatment in wartime, and campaign to bring offenders to justice." Amnesty International has created a press kit for reporters covering the Olympics.

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