Here in Kabul, over breakfast with Afghan Peace Volunteers, or APVs, we easily recalled key elements of the conflict resolution and peer mediation “train the trainers” workshops that Ellis Brooks, with Voices for Creative Nonviolence-UK,Continue reading
Category: Afghanistan
“I want my story to be heard.”
Kunduz MSF Hospital U.S. Bombing Survivor, “I want my story to be heard.” Former MSF Kunduz Hospital pharmacist, Khalid Ahmad, recuperating at Emergency Hospital in Kabul “I feel very angry, but I don’t wantContinue reading
If We Care About People
“Why did they attack us? We were trying to serve people.” –Khalid Ahmad, age 20, a survivor of the U.S. Attack on Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Kunduz Hospital. Following the October 3rd U.S. attack onContinue reading
Life Goes On Under the Helicopters and the Terrible Cost of Avoiding the Dangers of Kabul
When I arrived at the Kabul International Airport on November 4, I was unaware that the same day the New York Times published an article, “Life Pulls Back in Afghan Capital, as Danger Rises andContinue reading
Killing Blind
“These are people who had been working hard for months, non-stop for the past week. They had not gone home, they had not seen their families, they had just been working in the hospital toContinue reading