Kenya calls for home-grown solutions to resolve Africa’s conflicts
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- Kenya calls for home-grown solutions to resolve Africa’s conflicts
- [UMNS-ALL-NEWS] UMNS# 400-Home-grown pastors to serve Albanian United…
- Home-grown group revives traditional sound
- Nepal’s Home-Grown, Micro-scale, Appropriate Technology Brings…
- Self-made terrorists
Kenya calls for home-grown solutions to resolve Africa’s conflicts
People's Daily Online - Aug 17, 2007
execCommand(”saveAs”)>. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said Africa has in the past relied on external intervention by the international community as the most dependable method of conflict resolution instead of seeking own solutions. "I believe that the continent is capable of achieving its goal of a peaceful, stable, and secure Africa, despite the numerous constraints we face in managing our conflicts," President Kibaki told a meeting of regional ministers of defense and security in Nairobi. "However, it is now evident that international resources are overstretched, and Africa can no longer rely on the international community or its agencies to solve its problems," he said. The Fifth Eastern Africa Standby Brigade (EASBRIG) Ordinary Council of Ministers meeting is seeking ways of operationalizing the Brigade to enable it fully equipped by 2010 to intervene in conflict areas within the region.
[UMNS-ALL-NEWS] UMNS# 400-Home-grown pastors to serve Albanian United…
Worldwide Faith News - Aug 17, 2007
By Kathleen LaCamera*BRATISLAVA, Slovak Republic (UMNS) - Albanian United Methodists havenever had a pastor who spoke their language or who has grown up withtheir culture. This tiny mission church has always relied on outsiders to help organizeand lead their congregations. But that is about to change. Within ayear, 23-year-old Rigels Kasmollari will finish his pastoral trainingand return to Albania to help lead the country’s three United Methodistcongregations. Pastors from countries with small Methodist populations - such asAlbania, Macedonia and Serbia - must go outside their countries fortraining… Between 1990 and 2001, 20 percent of the population left. Some estimatethat up to 30 percent of Albania’s national income comes from thoseabroad sending money back to their families. A great tension exists inAlbania between staying home and making a life abroad. Into this hugely challenging set of circumstances step Kasmollari andLushka as pastoral leaders supported by a district superintendent basedin the South-Western Balkans and a bishop based in Switzerland. "I hope I’m going to learn a lot in the next year as an intern,"Kasmollari told United Methodist News Service. United Methodist encountersThe modern United Methodist Church in Albania began in 1998 with thehelp of United Methodists in the former East Germany. They broughttables and chairs for schools in Kasmollari’s rural mountain village ofBishnica and other villages.
Home-grown group revives traditional sound
Blairsville Dispatch - Aug 17, 2007
The method utilizes the back of the nail to strum the banjo upward or downward while the thumb plucks the top string. He also prefers using nylon strings, which provides a sound as close as possible to the period of the music. To access much of its old-time music, the band relies on the latest Internet technology. “If it weren’t for the Internet, we wouldn’t be able to find many of these songs,” Rusher said. “I wouldn’t know a thing about the banjo and the different ways it can be played and the different music available for it without the Internet. “It’s ironic because the technology has all but wiped out the reason for people to play instruments. But it also provides a resource for people to access music to keep it alive.
Nepal’s Home-Grown, Micro-scale, Appropriate Technology Brings…
WorldChanging - Aug 17, 2007
There’s also pressure on Nepal to export energy to India by harnessing its wild rivers to major dams. “It will be difficult to stop these schemes. But we should also promote cheap, small, homegrown technologies,”says Dixit. “These are no longer in the realm of New Age romanticism. Nepal has shown they work better than costly outside intervention, they deliver, and although the world is slow to take notice, they are quietly improving people’s lives. The answer? Get the story out:”This now needs to be reflected in media coverage of science and technology, and what we journalists define as news in our countries. Given the challenges of global warming and economic imbalances globally and within countries, locally-built and managed technologies have the best chance of addressing both economic and ecological concerns.
Self-made terrorists
Australian - Aug 17, 2007
In the Australian study, at least seven of the men charged with terrorism were the children of Lebanese immigrants who had grown up "somewhat secular" and had only begun practising Islam 18 months before their arrest. Likewise, some in the Toronto group had not practised Islam until they began to radicalise. Men who become "home-grown" terrorists are not driven by religion, at least not at first, nor are they motivated by oppression, suffering, revenge or desperation. Rather, they are looking for an identity and a cause, which they find in radical Islam. They are not recruited from above but usually begin the process of radicalisation alone, then gravitate towards like-minded individuals, form clusters and "self-designate themselves as holy warriors". Silber and Bhatt identify four stages in the process of radicalisation. The first is the "pre-radicalisation" phase, where an individual is often frustrated with his life or the politics of his home government and is looking for meaning in life.