TEDxDuke - David Watson on What You Can You Do With Who You Are Right Now
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DAVID WATSON David Watson is a sophomore at Duke University studying Conflict and Crisis Diplomacy under a proposed Program II course of study. David's studies focus primarily on Africa and the Middle East. Last summer, David and four other college students biked 3,600 miles across the United States for Falling Whistles, a campaign for peace in ... Read more
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- -: TEDxDuke - David Watson on What You Can You Do With Who You Are Right Now
April 19, 2011 (about 13 years ago)DAVID WATSON David Watson is a sophomore at Duke University studying Conflict and Crisis Diplomacy under a proposed Program II course of study. David's studies focus primarily on Africa and the Middle East. Last summer, David and four other college students biked 3,600 miles across the United Sta...
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- -: TEDxGeorgiaTech - Aubrey Graham - Perceptions Of Suffering: Photography, Aid & The DRC
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Social Documentary Photographer, and Anthropologist Aubrey Graham gives us an insight into why pictures of victims are portrayed the way they are. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that brin...
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- -: TEDxEast - Alex Petroff - Farming Peace and Ending Poverty, Eastern Congo's Hidden Gem
May 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)May 9, 2011- Alex Petroff shares the unlikely journey that led him to build sustainable farms through his 501c(3) Working Villages International.
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- -: TEDxDuke - David Watson on What You Can Do With Who You Are Right Now
May 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)**Before watching, check out the short (~2 minute) intro video on www.fallingwhistles.com . Last summer, David and four other college students biked 3,600 miles across the United States for Falling Whistles, which is an organization campaigning for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over ...
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- -: Amy Lockwood: Selling condoms in the Congo
September 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com HIV is a serious problem in the DR Congo, and aid agencies have flooded the country with free and cheap condoms. But few people are using them. Why? "Reformed marketer" Amy Lockwood offers a surprising answer that upends a traditional model of philanthropy. (Some NSFW images.) ...
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- -: Charlie Rose - Virunga Gorilla Killings
July 14, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Mountain gorillas are an endangered species with some 700 alive. Nearly half of these animals live in Virunga National Park which borders Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The gorillas are caught in the middle of the Congo's ongoing civil war between militia groups and the Cong...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Emmanuel De Merode: A Story of Conflict Renewal & Hope
October 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Emmanuel De Merode, Director for Virunga National Park, gives an account of the struggle to save one of the world's great national parks with its population of mountain gorillas, renders accessible to an audience one of the darkest conflicts in recent history, the bloody civil war in the Democrat...
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- -: V-Day Congo: Eve Ensler Builds 'City of Joy' for Rape Victims
March 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/02/I_Am_An_Emotional_Creature_An_Evening_with_Eve_Ensler Eve Ensler, V-Day founder and author of The Vagina Monologues, discusses her efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to end sexual violence against women. Ensler is creating the City of Joy...
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- -: Celebrity Activists Bring Visibility to Congo, Not Relief
May 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/18/Bosnia_Libya_and_the_Impact_of_War_Reporting When asked by NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten about the visibility celebrity activists bring to the Democratic Republic of Congo, journalist Lindsey Hilsum retorts, "One of the problems in both journalism and...
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Nelson Mandela: Statement by Mr Nelson Mandela on the death of President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday 17 January 2001
January 17, 2001 (over 23 years ago)In this statement, Nelson Mandela sends his condolences to the family of President Laurent Kabila upon his death. He talks about the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the hope that they will soon revert to a committed search for peace.
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