The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 8,200 views in 2012. If every person who reached the… Read More ›
Book Reviews 
The Future of Social and Political Science University Studies: Time to Operationalize Academia
Last Fall, I visited a number of Political Science departments in Universities around New York looking for an appropriate place to commence my PHD studies. This comes after 16 years of international political science and international diplomacy work in a… Read More ›
Gerard Prunier: Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide and the Making of a Continental War
Gerard Prunier has written the definitive volume on the complex, multi-tier relationship that ties Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda across one of the most beautiful valleys of the Great Rift Valley: the Kivus. I originally read this book on… Read More ›
Peace
“Peace is much more expensive then war …” Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness
“There is no peace without forgiveness…” Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Jo Nesbo “The Leopard” – thriller, crime and grim reaper!
This book is one of the most exciting books I have read recently. It starts with drawing you into two interesting characters with so much vulnerability and an ever thickening plot. You tumble into the book and a series of… Read More ›
