Blogs in the Sphere

by Michelle . · 2009-06-19 15:00:00 UTC
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I scroll through a good number of blogs on any given day --- I have a few tried-and-true favorites, that I link to frequently (namely, Wronging Rights, Opinio Juris, Humanitarian Relief, UN Dispatch, and Enough Said), but have also come across a few new (or new-ish-to-me) blogs that are worth keeping an eye on:

Darfuri activist Mohamed Suleiman is behind While We Wait, which gives daily updates on the situation on the ground in Darfur, gathered from a network on contacts in Darfur and the diaspora.

Fed by Curiosity is written by a student/teacher who focuses on "trauma, writing, and identity," and she's headed to Rwanda this summer.  I hope she updates her blog while she's overseas. (Thanks to @goldlis for the link.)

Transitionland, also a frequent commenter on the Change.org and contributor to Humanitarian Relief, describes herself as a "refugee-hugging, tea-drinking, profanity-spewing, sometimes constructivism-peddling, grammar-butchering twentysomething trying to get her first university degree in human rights and development (with a geographic focus on Europe and Central Asia)." Also the brains behind the Refugee Resettlement Reform blog, I believe.

OSI Fellow and Darfur expert Bec Hamilton is keeping a blog as she works on a book about the Darfur advocacy movement.

The Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog is an uber-resource not only for forced displacement, but conflict, conflict resolution, and peace-building more broadly.

[Photo from Someecards.com.]

Michelle . has been involved in various activist endeavors, including the Teach Against Genocide pilot campaigns.
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