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NOVEMBER 15, 2008

I was surprised a little later to realize that we were flying over Iraq. I had slept through the night and into the late afternoon in the Middle East. We flew over snow-capped mountains in Turkey.

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JUNE 13, 2007

This tremendous growth is due in large part to the continued use of Martus by our partners working in Guatemala with the National Police Archive, and projects gathering data about Burma, Iraq and the Philippines.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

Mousa and I talked about his dream of helping centers for blind people in Iraq get the tech equipment they need. Conversation Two I had agreed to act as a mentor to a Global Changemaker, in this case Mousa Mousawy, an Iraqi teenager now living in Jordan.

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JANUARY 30, 2010

My mentee, Musa, talked about his efforts to help communities in Iraq, including getting blind schools what they needed in terms of equipment (something I’m planning on helping him with), and ended with a rap. Prince Haakon of Norway kicked off the session, along with our moderator, Angel Cabrera, the dean of the Thunderbird Business School.

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JUNE 13, 2009

Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. A: For me specifically, government and social media (and not just Washington), social media, the Sunlight Foundation ( on government accountability and transparency, data.gov, etc.)

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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